Travelers & Explorers
epub |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Michael Smith

Erebus and Terror caught in a storm in 1843 during the last stages of the momentous four-year journey to the Antarctic. Erebus and Terror returned briefly to the Falklands in ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers September 5,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-05 | Author:Alexandra Fuller

* * * — IT’S NOT A LONG FLIGHT from Johannesburg to Lusaka, three hours or so, a little more if there’s weather. It can be bumpy; wind shears in ...
( Category: Grief & Bereavement September 5,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-19 | Author:Anthony Bourdain

ANTHONY BOURDAIN DISHES ON FOOD INTERVIEW WITH NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON STARTALK WITH NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON APRIL 7, 2013 NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: People always say “Oh, I’ve been to this country, ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers September 5,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-15 | Author:Emma Sky

CHAPTER 7 … to the hill of frankincense Oman December 2012 Although the sultanate of Oman borders Saudi Arabia, it seemed a world away. I did not have to wear ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 30,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-29 | Author:Lori Qian

When we returned to the hotel, we called the embassy on my mobile phone. They confirmed that they couldn’t do anything by fax and that we did indeed need to ...
( Category: Love & Romance August 30,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-19 | Author:James Glaisher & Liz Bentley

CHAPTER III Ascents from Wolverhampton August 18, 1862 The weather on this day was favourable; there was but little wind from the N.E. By noon the balloon was nearly inflated. ...
( Category: Scientists August 28,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2019-07-28 | Author:Jill Heinerth

The Pit 2000 ONE YEAR AFTER Wakulla I heard a phrase that I had never expected to hear: “Never dive again.” The physician’s words made my heart drop. “I have ...
( Category: Oceanography August 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-27 | Author:Edward J. Larson

Route of the winter journey of Edward Wilson, Birdie Bowers, and Apsley Cherry-Garrard around Ross Island to Cape Crozier (1911), from Scott’s Last Expedition (New York, 1913). CHAPTER 6 March ...
( Category: Earth Sciences August 28,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Chris Willis

In 1997, the town of Forksville unveiled a historical marker just down the road from the house that Red Grange was born in. Courtesy of author The Red Grange Rock, ...
( Category: History of Sports August 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-12 | Author:Sasha Chapin

THE SECRET OF CHESS I first stumbled upon the lectures of my future teacher and spiritual guardian, Ben Finegold, during a despairing google for chess tips in Bangkok. He was ...
( Category: Chess August 24,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-19 | Author:Sister Annabel Laity

Gardening in Lower Hamlet, early 1990s. I was very happy when Sister Chan Vi came. To be able to live together with even just one other person in a Sangha ...
( Category: Women August 23,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:J Maarten Troost

CHAPTER 12 In which the Author discovers, while rolling in a swell, Sunburned and Stinging with Sea Lice, and circled by a very large Thresher Shark, which, contrary to his ...
( Category: Australian August 20,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-18 | Author:Jim Motavalli

Louis Vasquez, a second-generation mountain man who took up the fur trade in 1772. (Used by permission, Utah State Historical Society) Colter vowed not to visit the area again, and ...
( Category: United States August 19,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-16 | Author:Evie Farrell

Having Mum with us was so much fun, but she worried that her snoring would keep us awake at night. Emmie and I returned to our room at the Maraya ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-13 | Author:Simon Armitage [Simon Armitage]

Today’s walk, or at least the first half of it, is reckoned by many to be the most pleasant and least taxing section of the whole trail, a saunter through ...
( Category: Authors August 14,2019 )