Travelers & Explorers
epub |eng | 2019-06-30 | Author:Hackinen, Meaghan Marie;

WHILE IT WAS MY FATHER WHO INTRODUCED ME to sci-fi, my mother was the one who insisted that we go, just she and I, to see A New Hope when ...
( Category: Memoirs November 20,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-22 | Author:Pokerwinski, Nan Sanders;

Like I said, attachment can get sticky. Sometimes, though, you can’t resist. Case in point: New Year’s Eve. Carlson had the limo and Tuke’s services for the entire day and ...
( Category: Women November 20,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-29 | Author:Eugenia Russell & Eugenia Russell & Eugenia Russell

Fig. 36: The town and harbour of Vathi, Ithaka from The Ionian Islands: twelve plates London, 1821 by Joseph Cartwright. With any attempts to prise Parga from the British falling ...
( Category: Military November 20,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mogoatlhe, Lerato

At first, it would seem as if I’m turning a molehill into a mountain but a closer look at the facts proves me right – Ugandans are out to get ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers November 20,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-18 | Author:Mary Jane Black

( Category: Motorcycles November 19,2019 )
epub |eng | 1987-01-15 | Author:Martin Amis [Amis, Martin]

* * * Postscript In agreeing to the interview Mr Vidal had armed himself with the stipulation that he would be able to see and check the piece before it ...
( Category: United States November 19,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Bear Grylls [Bear Grylls]

“So, we need to ration ourselves, and supplement what we have.” He took a mouthful from the bottle, but didn’t swallow it immediately. He gargled it, then swilled it around ...
( Category: Action & Adventure November 19,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jeffrey Vonk [Vonk, Jeffrey]

* * * When I started the journey I had literally nothing planned beyond Tibet. So to be two days away from India is rather exciting. Gradually the skin tone ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers November 19,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-08 | Author:Tom Cox [Cox, Tom]

There were times in late 2017 and early 2018, on one of the less brutal days, when I would be driving across the Peak District – a notably high, desolate ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers November 19,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2007-12-01 | Author:Fergus Fleming

CHARTING THE ANTARCTIC James Clark Ross (1839–43) Since Antarctica had been circumnavigated, first by James Cook in 1773 and then by Thaddeus Bellingshausen in 1820, naval and scientific circles had ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers November 19,2019 )
epub |eng | 1974-11-13 | Author:Read, Piers Paul, 1941-

bringing him down onto the floor for the night, but the pain this caused was too great and Echavarren preferred to go back to the hammock. Then one night he ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing November 14,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-11 | Author:Andrew Rader

17 | TO THE SKY It’s truly remarkable that creatures who, until recently in evolutionary history, never traveled faster than a running pace or built more than rudimentary tools are ...
( Category: Mars November 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-05 | Author:Michael Palin [Palin, Michael]

Dinner is a curious affair, taken in a room almost empty except for a thousand small pots. My room turns out to be quite ample; a lot of bamboo – ...
( Category: Photojournalism November 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-03 | Author:Leath Tonino

Old Friend Do you remember the time? I was driving, you were sitting to my right, the summer day was blurring by—aspen, Doug fir, northern flicker, Steller’s jay. Neither of ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays November 4,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-01 | Author:Doug Macdougall [Macdougall, Doug]

eight THE NATIVES On March 4, 1874, the crew of Challenger said good-bye to the last Antarctic iceberg they would see on the voyage. They were en route to Australia ...
( Category: Oceanography October 29,2019 )