Travelers & Explorers
epub |eng | 2009-05-13 | Author:Richards, Susan [Richards, Susan]

TICKET TO THE END OF THE EARTH This morning I finally heard from Vera. As soon as I reached Novosibirsk, I sent her a telegram. I had not rated my ...
( Category: Asia April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Tabor, James M. [Tabor, James M.]

UNDERLYING EVERYTHING ELSE MAY HAVE BEEN something even more primal and basic: desperation. By 1994, Bill Stone had lost his wife, his children, his home, two close friends, and all ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-01 | Author:Diederich, Bernard [Diederich, Bernard]

In response, John Scali, US Ambassador to the UN and a former television newsman, said Torrijos was ‘knocking on an open door’ and that the ‘world knows the United States ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 1954-01-01 | Author:Stegner, Wallace [Stegner, Wallace]

The justifications for reform were extensive, for every condition of land and climate, and every successive land law except the Timber Culture Act of 1873 worked against the city mechanic, ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Krakauer, Jon [Krakauer, Jon]

* Bromet had left Base Camp in mid-April and returned to Seattle, whence she continued to file Internet dispatches about Fischer’s expedition for Outside Online; she relied on regular phone ...
( Category: Mountaineering April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-05-22 | Author:South, Mary [South, Mary]

O, God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small. -ANONYMOUS Burrells Inlet, South Carolina. If you're ever in the neighborhood, stop by. Tucked back behind a ...
( Category: Travel Writing April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Stack, Megan K. [Stack, Megan K.]

There is oil under our feet, and these are prairie women. When the topic of the kingdom outside the gates comes up, they turn questioning faces in my direction. They ...
( Category: Historical April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Millard, Candice [Millard, Candice]

CHAPTER 19 The Wide Belts BY ROUGHLY TWO MILLION years ago, humans had spread out of Africa and into Europe and Asia. Hundreds of thousands of years later, they migrated ...
( Category: Americas April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 1840-01-01 | Author:Dana, Richard Henry [Dana, Richard Henry]

CHAPTER XXVII The Sunday Wash-up—On Shore—A Set-to—A Grandee—“Sail Ho!”—A Fandango The only other vessel in port was the Russian government bark, from Asitka, mounting eight guns, (four of which we ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-04-01 | Author:Ventura, Jesse [Ventura, Jesse]

We stay at a campground facing the bay called Rancho Grande, and are on our way again by 8:00 a.m. The next stretch of road, while still unpaved and bumpy, ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:Terzani, Tiziano [Terzani, Tiziano]

I had not tried to imagine Pulau Bintan, and at first sight I found it magnificent, still natural, not yet ruined by modernity. The boat tied up at an old ...
( Category: Asia April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2004-06-08 | Author:J. Maarten Troost [Troost, J. Maarten]

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: Travel Writing April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-06 | Author:James Cook

SATURDAY 25th. Therm.r. Noon 34. Winds NW. Course N 481/4° E. Dist. Sailed 84 Miles. Lat. in South 66°23'. Longde. in West Reck.g. 135°7' Long. made C. Pallisser 49°32'. In ...
( Category: World April 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2001-09-13 | Author:Dugard, Martin [Dugard, Martin]

CHAPTER 12 Ice Cook was forty-three when his second circumnavigation got under way aboard Resolution. In almost every way, he was still the eager skipper who’d led Endeavour to sea ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics April 25,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2003-07-31 | Author:Tony Horwitz

Stafford stirred my journalistic juices. I resolved to crack the red-banana story before leaving the island. If nothing else, this mission would give Roger and me something to do other ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers April 25,2018 )