Travelers & Explorers
mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Jim Davidson; Kevin Vaughan

KNEELING OVER MIKE, I stare at his rumpled jacket, unsure of what to do. A question rings loudly in my mind: Where are we? I stand tentatively to look around. ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-26 | Author:Ranulph Fiennes

13 Sorry Straits Trying to plan and organise two expeditions at the same time is something I have usually avoided, but whilst I was training for the solo Antarctic crossing ...
( Category: Rich & Famous March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1997-01-02 | Author:Jon Krakauer

“Who could resist? And Chris knew it. He’d have this look on his face like ‘I’m damn cute! Want to buy some beans?’ By the time he came home, the ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:James M. Tabor

TWENTY-SIX STONE-LED EXPEDITIONS IN 1995 and 1997 failed to find any other way through Huautla. Stone devoted 1998 largely to a massive project mapping Florida’s vast Wakulla Springs underwater cave ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-08-15 | Author:Jon Krakauer

VIRGINIA BEACH The physical domain of the country had its counterpart in me. The trails I made led outward into the hills and swamps, but they led inward also. And ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2005-08-30 | Author:Aron Ralston

Eight “I’m Goin’ to Utah” People say that we’re searching for the meaning of life. I don’t think that’s it at all. I think that what we’re seeking is an ...
( Category: Rock March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-26 | Author:Jamie Doran

Early on the morning of April 14 Gagarin left for Moscow. He climbed the gangway of a large Ilyushin-18 airliner capable of long-distance flights. In a few weeks’ time he ...
( Category: Scientists March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-06-23 | Author:Buzz Aldrin; Ken Abraham

ON MAY 8, 1976, I attended the “Operation Understanding” banquet at the Shoreham Americana Hotel in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the National Council on Alcoholism (NCA). I had achieved less ...
( Category: Scientists March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2008-09-01 | Author:Qanta Ahmed

WAHABI WRATH EVERYONE STOPPED EATING. THE AIR was pregnant with fear. Across from me, I watched Alon, a visiting professor from Johns Hopkins, turn sallow as all color drained from ...
( Category: Women in Islam March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-05 | Author:Jennifer Steil

AT THE END OF NOVEMBER, two men from the South African embassy visit me. These men actually made an appointment, only I have completely forgotten. When they arrive, I am ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Alice Steinbach

It was still early, so I decided to visit a museum I’d heard about: the quaintly named Museum of Garden History. One of my English friends had warned me not ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-08-15 | Author:Jake Adelstein

On July 12, the TMPD officially announced that it was conducting an investigation into the disappearance of Lucie Blackman. The Japanese newspaper coverage was subdued, but within days it became ...
( Category: Law Enforcement March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-30 | Author:Algeo, Matthew [Algeo, Matthew]

* * * 10 New York, New York, June 27–July 5, 1953 Harry’s private railcar, which was attached to the regular Philadelphia Express, arrived at Penn Station in New York ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Laurence Bergreen

The Spanish refused to shoulder the blame. The mass suicide resulted from the Indians’ “own stubbornness,” said Peter Martyr. “The Indians purposely destroyed all their bread [cassava] fields,” Columbus told ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2002-12-03 | Author:Bill Bryson

An Excerpt from Bill Bryson’s At Home THE DRAWING ROOM I If you had to summarize it in a sentence, you could say that the history of private life is ...
( Category: Travel Writing Reference March 25,2014 )