Travelers & Explorers
epub |eng | 2007-01-31 | Author:Rory Stewart [Stewart, Rory]

JOBS If one wants to keep up a reputation for generosity one must spend lavishly and ostentatiously . . . You can be much more generous giving away what does ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 25,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-05 | Author:Karen Wheeler

We walk in the half-light of the forest for over an hour, picking our way around deep, muddy tracks that are partially frozen over. 'Look,' says Henri at one point, ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers April 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-04 | Author:Sarah MacDonald [MacDonald, Sarah]

Upper Dharamsala, or McLeod Gunj, is the spiritual centre of exiled Tibetan Buddhism. I’d passed through the town on my way home from Vipassana and I’d found it peaceful and ...
( Category: Travel Writing April 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-25 | Author:Rick Ridgeway

The view from Camp IV was quite different. There was no denying conditions on the ridge were hostile. But perhaps one reason for their trouble getting across was that they ...
( Category: Mountaineering April 25,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-03-28 | Author:Ken Ilgunas

11. The Electrician WHITE RIVER, SOUTH DAKOTA—1,062 MILES TO GO November 27, 2012 While my legs and hips and back felt strong, and my feet were no longer plagued with ...
( Category: Travel Writing April 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-24 | Author:Tristram Korten

* * * — The wind was blowing about 30 knots, Gelera estimated, with 50-knot gusts (58 miles per hour). Dark green-blue water rose up in malevolent lines rolling toward ...
( Category: Earth Sciences April 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-01 | Author:Jim Reisler [Reisler, Jim]

8 “Walking Is the Easiest Part” A day’s walk south of Chicago, Edward Payson Weston described himself as looking like “a drowned rat.” Leaving Joliet in the driving rain of ...
( Category: Hiking & Camping April 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-13 | Author:Richard Grant [Grant, Richard]

MARIAH WOULDN’T DRIVE after a single drink, so if we went for an evening out, I was usually the designated driver, although not always entirely sober. Driving fifty miles home ...
( Category: Travel Writing April 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-20 | Author:Tony Castro

10. The Eastern Babe “We won the Series in 1926, and I sometimes wonder if the only reason is that Gehrig didn’t get to bat in the ninth inning.” —Rogers ...
( Category: Regional U.S April 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-22 | Author:David H. Mould [Mould, David H.]

seven Father of Apples Welcome to Almaty? For travelers in the mid-1990s, Almaty airport was not a welcoming port of entry. Flights from Europe arrived in the wee hours of ...
( Category: Travel Writing April 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-22 | Author:Steve Howard [Howard, Steve]

5 Communicating Islamic Reform Small Media, Big Ideas On the east bank of the Blue Nile is the village of Hilaliya, not far from the region in which Ustadh Mahmoud ...
( Category: Africa April 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-26 | Author:Paul Breiter [Breiter, Paul]

11. Varapanyo’s Last Stand When you feel like you’re beating your head against the wall, you’ve just got to keep at it until one of them breaks. —Varapanyo Bhikkhu Thailand, ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers April 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-12 | Author:Wheeler Robert; Fuentes, América;

This is what Fidel Castro said: I am not a communist, neither is the revolutionary movement. A toast that is said among Cubans and sounds like it came from the ...
( Category: Photography & Video April 21,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-03-16 | Author:Chanan Tigay [Tigay, Chanan]

10 TERRA INCOGNITA In the wake of Schlottmann’s gruff brush-off, Shapira departed on a second trek into Yemen, a four-month ordeal he hoped would bolster his reputation as a manuscript ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations April 20,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-20 | Author:Dennis Marks [Dennis Marks]

When we read his quasi-Hasidic debates with God, Rebellion seems at times like an early draft for Job, Roth’s first great popular success. Although he never suggests that Pum is ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers April 20,2018 )