Travelers & Explorers
epub |eng | 2012-10-12 | Author:Paul Gauguin

In the scales of the North, the largest heart cannot resist a hundred-sou piece. I too have observed the North, and the best thing I found there was assuredly not ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-08 | Author:Washington Irving [Irving, Washington]

It is to be regretted that Captain Bonneville had no instruments with him with which to ascertain the altitude of this peak. He gives it as his opinion that it ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:John Gierach

12 ROAD TRIP The price of gas that summer (at historic highs through most of July) sucked some of the glamour out of a thousand-mile road trip, but not so ...
( Category: Rhythm & Blues March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bernard Moitessier

Sun altitude and meridian When the sun reaches its greatest height for the day (at true noon), we say that it “passes the meridian.” The angle formed between the observer’s ...
( Category: Sailing March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tessa Keswick [Keswick, Tessa]

The band plays on in Shaxi’s Sideng market square; they produced an extraordinary wailing sound. After a while we wander off to explore. Down the side streets the sturdily built ...
( Category: Historical China Biographies March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-18 | Author:Toby Ferris

In 1944 my father was operated on in Toronto for an appendicitis under local anaesthetic. He said it was unpleasant, but there was an attractive nurse mopping his brow while ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-21 | Author:Elbridge Streeter Brooks

CHAPTER IX. HOW THE TROUBLES OF THE ADMIRAL BEGAN. Both the farmers and the gold hunters had a hard time of it in the land they had come to so ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-19 | Author:Ian Purkayastha & Kevin West

My dad and I returned to the United States twenty-four hours later. The trip had been successful but expensive. Between airfare, hotel costs, and food, we racked up $12,000 on ...
( Category: Culinary Biographies & Memoirs March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-13 | Author:Les Standiford [Standiford, Les]

- 12 - SEA CHANGE Most who knew the Huttons during their Palm Beach heyday would have assumed that any essential conflict between the pair could be traced to their ...
( Category: United States March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-14 | Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von]

* * * Rome, Nov. 11, 1786. Yesterday I visited the nymph Egeria, and then the Hippodrome of Caracalla, the ruined tombs along the Via Appia, and the tomb of ...
( Category: Europe March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Fox, Edward [Fox, Edward]

CHAPTER 4 Invisible Kingdom – Swaziland Swollen with confidence as a result of my success with the Nigerian rulers, I then set about investigating an African monarchy – a kingdom ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-13 | Author:Cathryn J. Prince

* * * At 20,632 feet, Camp Italia occupied the lower flank of the Nun Kun. The expedition would pass two nights here. “And if any snow-leopards were prowling about, ...
( Category: History of Sports March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-17 | Author:Daniel James Brown [Brown, Daniel James]

10 THE HEART ON THE MOUNTAIN The first order of business on the morning of December 27 was to make a fire. Under the blankets, William Eddy poured some black ...
( Category: United States March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-26 | Author:Irene Aylworth Douglass

THE FOLLOWING WEEK, TRUCKS AND swarms of people filled the central courtyard of WAPDA Flats. Pakistan’s flourishing movie industry was shooting a romantic film, and the company took over WAPDA ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 14,2020 )
azw |eng | 2017-01-11 | Author:van Paasschen, Frits

GLOBAL INCOME GROWTH FROM 1988–2008 Data gathered from nearly 600 household surveys from approximately 120 countries in the world, covering more than 90% of the world population and 95% of ...
( Category: Hospitality, Travel & Tourism March 14,2020 )