Travelers & Explorers
epub |eng | 2012-09-23 | Author:Paul Little

CHAPTER 11 LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON If Peter Hillary were anyone else’s son, he would almost certainly be regarded as one of the world’s great adventurers. Firsts include the first ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-22 | Author:Ernle Bradford [Bradford, Ernle]

Only one galley, the crack of the whip sounding over the rowers’ backs, turned away in the confusion and managed to escape. Hotly pursued by some of the galleots, she ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1986-03-25 | Author:Maya Angelou [Angelou, Maya]

When our grinning faces appeared at Julian’s door, he tried waving his arms to distract us, but only succeeded in agitating the tell-tale odors of sage, oregano and fried pork. ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2008-04-28 | Author:Louis L'Amour

Often I am asked if any writer ever helped or advised me. None did. However, I was not asking for help either, and I do not believe one should. If ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-11-24 | Author:Robbins, Tom [Robbins, Tom]

The problem with Christianity is it’s the single most reactionary force in human history. I don’t even know what is in second place, it’s so far in front. And I ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-02-11 | Author:M.G. Vassanji [Vassanji, M.G.]

In Amritsar the temperature has been over a hundred degrees. In Shimla, when we get back, hail has fallen, the ground is white. It is night and desolately silent. We ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
epub, azw |eng | | Author:Mark Twain

CHAPTER XXXII [The Jungfrau, the Bride, and the Piano] We located ourselves at the Jungfrau Hotel, one of those huge establishments which the needs of modern travel have created in ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-07-21 | Author:Robert M. Pirsig [Pirsig, Robert M.]

19 A mat of sunlit pine needles by my face slowly tells me where I am and helps dispel a dream. In the dream I was standing in a white-painted ...
( Category: Philosophy March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:Alan Paul [Paul, Alan]

Chapter 19 Them Changes My day-to-day existence was being transformed, with the band moving from a fun little side project into a far more central place in my life. This ...
( Category: Rhythm & Blues March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:Wilfred Thesiger

9. From Salala to Mukalla A leisurely journey with the Rashid to Mukalla completes my survey of this part of Arabia. I stayed at Salala for a week. I was ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 26,2014 )
MOBI |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Carol Shaben

At 8:30 that morning, Canadian Forces Base Edmonton, expecting a break in the weather, dispatched a Twin Otter to try and get under the clouds. Just a minute later, its ...
( Category: Epic March 26,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-05-08 | Author:Chris Stewart

BUILDING THE HOUSE FOR SOME MONTHS A STOCKPILE OF CHESTNUT ROOF-BEAMS had lain under a tarpaulin on a piece of flat land behind the house. It was a reminder to ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-17 | Author:David Byrne

Of course, beginning with Marcos’s 1969 reelection campaign and then when martial law was declared in 1972 the scales began to tip, and the chicanery, censorship, human-rights abuses, murder, corruption, ...
( Category: Cycling March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-01 | Author:Jennifer Pharr Davis

It’s amazing what food and rest can do. It was a drizzly morning with heavy fog, but I felt much, much better, and after a big breakfast I set out ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1968-01-29 | Author:William Tenn

PART III COUNSELORS FOR THEIR WISDOM As he had dropped into it, still hanging from the rope, the cage had appeared empty. Once on his feet and master of his ...
( Category: Adventure March 25,2014 )