Travelers & Explorers
epub |eng | 2018-08-22 | Author:Robin Hanbury-Tenison

Scientist, Doctor, Naturalist, Artist 1872–1912 Words must always fail me when I talk of Bill Wilson. I believe he really is the finest character I ever met. ROBERT FALCON SCOTT, ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-25 | Author:Hermann Hesse & Sherab Chodzin Kohn

KANDY PROMENADE The famous city Kandy lies in an oppressively narrow valley on a miserable, artificial lake. Apart from its ancient temple and its, of course, marvelous trees, it has ...
( Category: World August 23,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nick Perry

It was a particularly hot day. Maria had a wooden thermometer hanging from one of the eucalyptus trees and Gregory told me it was eighty-five degrees, ‘poli zesti’, so we ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides August 22,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alta Abernathy

While waiting for Teddy’s ship to arrive, Dad took us on a tour of one of the ships in New York harbor. About 7:20 a.m. the Kaiserlin was spotted through ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-24 | Author:Timothy O'Grady

Bombs, Weddings, Vice and the Desert The little city boomed for twenty years after William Clark’s auction, then staggered. A rail strike provoked the removal of the maintenance works up ...
( Category: Sociology August 21,2018 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:David Bennun

In due course, I acquired a bigger room and a newer tenant took the boxroom. His name was Gordon and he was American. It’s a fact of British life that ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides August 21,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-24 | Author:Laura Fahrenthold

Part III: When a House Is Not a Home 32 Home Is Where the Heart Dies “I came across many a lost traveler on the road; we would connect for ...
( Category: Death & Grief August 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-25 | Author:Peter Mayle

* * * — One other result of interviews that were published in the British press was that I began to receive letters from readers, and I’ve kept them all, ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-11 | Author:Henri Michaux [Michaux, Henri]

When it comes to speed, they have nothing to learn from anyone. Into their drama, which is more varied than anything of the kind in Europe, they introduce everything—the nine ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-23 | Author:Fischer, Joshua D. [Fischer, Joshua D.]

(Photos by Calli Higgins) A Retired Captain of the Fire Department Becomes the Captain of a Shuffleboard Team Tim McKinney walks into the Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club like he owns ...
( Category: Regional U.S August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sir Edmund Hillary [Hillary, Sir Edmund]

Bunny Shackleton, Nov.19 For some reason I had thought that the previous message indicating that Bunny had reached South Ice meant that his whole team had arrived. I didn’t realise ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-30 | Author:Laurens Van Der Post [Laurens van der Post]

* * * 1 Alas, the prohibition has been removed and the mountain has been climbed several times since; and the Chogyal, the King of Sikkim, has died after imprisonment ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-04 | Author:Andrea Di Robilant

CHAPTER SEVEN Crouching Beast The weather was gray and stormy during the crossing. There was nothing much to do on the Île de France but read and write letters, and ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Carlo DeVito [DeVito, Carlo]

To an Ex-American League Pennant Winner Although you were defeated, Yanks, You shouldn’t feel too blue; Just think of all your bars and banks And bowling alleys, too. As businessmen ...
( Category: Biographies August 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tim Flannery

SEVENTEEN THE MAKING OF THE BUFFALO With the end of the Clovis culture about 12,900 years ago, America's first human frontier closed. The first pan-North American culture had vanished and ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 11,2018 )