Travelers & Explorers
epub |eng | | Author:Georgie Anne Geyer

Behind some glass doors, in a spare little room, I found Walesa and his men. Walesa, wearing a dark blue corduroy jacket, with his rakish mustache and his sensuous eyes, ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics April 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-16 | Author:Bill Chastain & Jesse Rogers

11. 9=8 Magic After absorbing two losing seasons, the Devil Rays’ new regime was more than ready to turn the page and go for it. Part of that go-for-it attitude ...
( Category: United States April 2,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time To Go Home

Indonesia Every country in the world worries about the threat of aggressive neighbors who seek to conquer them. Not to worry. The Russians will do themselves in by drinking too ...
( Category: Humor April 2,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Phil Doran

When you come to Florence and you’re in search of a magnificent view of the city, as well as a brutal cardiovascular workout, you must go to the Cathedral Santa ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers April 2,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

* * * UPPER GEVAUDAN (continued) The bed was made, the room was fit, By punctual eve the stars were lit; The air was still, the water ran; No need ...
( Category: Europe April 2,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-08 | Author:Linda Greenlaw

CHAPTER 9 The Grand Banks Bubble Light westerly wind teased up the ocean’s surface to just beyond ripples. The rising sun shone across and through, rather than down upon, the ...
( Category: Specific Groups April 2,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-05 | Author:Judd, Ashley;Kristof, Nicholas D.;Vollers, Maryanne

Chapter 14 SHADES OF HOPE My grandmother of choice, Tennie “Mennie” McCarty, and me at my Harvard graduation. One cannot begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows. ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People April 2,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-03-05 | Author:Bob Thompson

The Birthplace of Texas has been a ghost town for more than a century. In the 1840s, it was a thriving cotton port, with steamers operating between Washington and the ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers April 2,2018 )
epub |eng | 2001-03-31 | Author:William Cobbett

We got to THURSLEY after our beautiful ride through Mr LEECH’s coppices, and the weather being pretty cold, we found ourselves most happily situated here by the side of an ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 31,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Juliane Diller (koepcke) & Ross Benjamin [Diller, Juliane & Benjamin, Ross]

I don’t know what people were expecting—whether they thought that I would burst into tears or undergo a powerful emotional eruption. I’ve never been the type for that. On top ...
( Category: Transportation March 31,2018 )
epub |eng | 1995-01-02 | Author:Bruce Feiler [Feiler, Bruce]

“So what happened?” “What do you mean what happened?” Big Man said. “I stole some tapes, and I got caught. Cost me three hundred dollars and eight days in prison. ...
( Category: United States March 31,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-06-02 | Author:Richard Wiles

Chapter Twelve What Goes Around An area of our renovations that we had been keen to proceed with was the installation of windows in the grange. This, we felt, would ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 29,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Fry, Stephen

Well-​known residents and natives: Herbert Hoover (31st President), Mamie Eisenhower, ‘Buffalo’ Bill Cody, Grant ‘American Gothic’ Wood, Meredith ‘Music Man’ Wilson, Bix Beiderbecke, Bill Bryson, Johnny Carson, George ‘Superman’ Reeves, ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 29,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-29 | Author:Victoria Twead

Black flags We punched our cards into the clocking-in machine, black ink, on time, and made our way across the courtyard. Progress was slow as all the students wanted to ...
( Category: Middle East March 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Ian Buruma

Anzu in the dressing room of the striptease theater We took the train to Kawasaki, an industrial slum inhabited by poor Koreans. The streets were shabby and smelled of fermented ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 26,2018 )