Travelers & Explorers
mobi |eng | 2004-03-15 | Author:John Banville

4 GREAT DANE, LITTLE DOG The once Danish, now Swedish, island of Hveen, or Hven, or simply Ven - let us choose a middle course and call it Hven - ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Chapter VIII - Spring * Inside was pandemonium. Most men had gone to bed, and I have a blurred memory of men in pyjamas and dressing-gowns getting hold of me ...
( Category: Polar Regions March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1883-01-02 | Author:Mark Twain; Bill Mckibben

CHAPTER XXXI A Thumbprint and What Came of It We were approaching Napoleon, Arkansas. So I began to think about my errand there. Time, noonday; and bright and sunny. This ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Linda Hunt

William and Mary Bryan’s home in Lincoln, Nebraska, decorated for a celebration during the Presidential election year of 1896. Courtesy Nebraska State Historical Society Photograph Collections, RG3198:22-6. Detail of this ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-01 | Author:David Cordingly

9 Welcome to Nassau At 4 p.m. on 25 July 1718 the lookouts on HMS Rose sighted the eastern end of the island of New Providence. Captain Whitney had been ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Alexandra Fuller

IT WAS ONLY AFTER we had crossed the border from Zambia into Zimbabwe that K remembered that he still had his revolver with him. “Shit,” he laughed, rooting around in ...
( Category: Memoirs March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2000-01-02 | Author:Melissa Gayle West

CHAPTER SEVEN Caring for Your Labyrinth Taking care of the labyrinth you have created is a meditative discipline, much like the careful raking of sand in a Zen temple garden. ...
( Category: New Thought March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-08-03 | Author:Jeff Deck; Benjamin D. Herson

Then we stopped. LONLEY? asked the chalkboard. YOU GOT A FRIEND IN BOOZE. Josh was the one who’d pointed out the sign. We peered at the specimen, and I felt ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:James May

THE RANGE ROVER OF OUTSTANDING NATURAL BEAUTY Today, from the window of my office, I have an uninterrupted view of my 1992 Range Rover Vogue SE. I think it may ...
( Category: Performing Arts March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-04-22 | Author:Thomas Kohnstamm

After a few minutes of the novela, a solid Brazilian melodrama of tears, betrayal, unrequited love, and product placement, Beatriz leads me outside and through a narrow alleyway that runs ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-07 | Author:Julian Smith

Ewart Grogan Gertrude Watt, the inspiration for Grogan’s legendary transcontinental trek Grogan’s sketch of Arthur “Harry” Sharp, his companion for part of the journey Grogan fumbling for his 4-bore rifle ...
( Category: African-American & Black March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Cash Peters

The show premiered four weeks later. On my birthday, as a matter of fact, June 6. A coincidence everyone was quick to label a lucky omen. It's hard to encapsulate ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |es | 2010-06-28 | Author:Bill Bryson

* * * SIXTEEN I HAD ALWAYS thought that New England was nothing but maple trees and white churches and old guys in checkered shirts sitting around iron stoves in ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-13 | Author:Jamie Zeppa

It is too late for them to go home after, so they spend the night, sleeping on mats and quilts on the floor, covered with blankets and kiras and towels. ...
( Category: Dalai Lama March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1986-01-02 | Author:Steven Callahan

The Tupperware box is twice as effective as a rain collector when I rig it up on top of the raft. The bridle that secures it to Ducky's stern can ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 25,2014 )