Travelers & Explorers
epub |eng | 2017-01-21 | Author:Richard Owen [Owen, Richard]

11 Rapallo and Cortina “After renouncing Italy and all its works I’ve gotten all nostalgique about it. I bet it’s swell now” Hemingway to Ezra Pound, 17 March 1924 RAPALLO ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides March 18,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hans Florine & JAYME MOYE

CHAPTER 6 Blind Ambition In 1994, the year following my roped-solo ascent of the Nose, the Access Fund, an advocacy organization focused on conserving climbing areas in the United States, ...
( Category: Americas March 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-18 | Author:Victoria Price

The years that followed—my early twenties—were the hardest years of my life. Literally. A few years after coming out to my mom, I began experiencing a profoundly disturbing physical sensation: ...
( Category: Happiness March 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-28 | Author:Philippe Petit

The champion speed-typist—on the verge of tears, and in the most deadly silence—types each entry with one trembling finger, one letter at a time, on the precious cards. I heap ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 18,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gavin Maxwell

Three · All the Wild Summer Through WITH THAT SPRING following the publication of Ring of Bright Water the privacy of Camusfeàrna came abruptly to an end. A great number ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics March 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-07 | Author:Catherine Kautsky [Kautsky, Catherine]

• 8 • Fairies and Fairy Tales Fairy tales were very much on the minds of Debussy and his countrymen. The early collections by Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-13 | Author:Brian Castner

* * * ———— For the first two hundred miles, from Great Slave Lake to Fort Simpson, the Mackenzie is green, and when the wind ripples the water, it looks ...
( Category: Specialty Travel March 18,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-04-04 | Author:Kim Dinan [Dinan, Kim]

Chapter 11 We took turns driving in one-hour shifts, the maximum length of time we deemed tolerable before the stress shot our nerves completely. Poor Sarah was stuck behind the ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-14 | Author:Eve Brown-Waite [Brown-Waite, Eve]

“Do you like our breakfast?” Auntie Lucy greeted me at the door of the dining hall the next morning. “Or should I ask the cook to make you some potatoes?” ...
( Category: Memoirs March 18,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Kuusisto

Chapter Fourteen My mother, Evelyn, was a saboteur of family occasions and so she arrived for graduation feeling faint. My sister and I dragged her to the kitchen for orange ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 18,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-09-15 | Author:Robert M. Utley [Utley, Robert M.]

16 KIT CARSON: FRÉMONT’S THIRD EXPEDITION KIT CARSON SPENT the winter of 1844–45 based in Taos with Josefa but doubtless ranging widely as his restless nature dictated. In Taos he ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 18,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Axel Madsen

PART TWO Chapter 13 The Challenge Clara and André left for Saigon in January 1925. They were in third class this time, segregated by sex—six women passengers in one cabin, ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides March 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:Paul Samuel Dolman

From our first night together, the Miracle and I are inseparable. During the two months that we stay in Del Mar, we walk along the shore daily and never miss ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 17,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Root [Root, Robert]

The view of Cactus Bluff and Ferry Bluff across the river stayed with me in the following weeks, and so I find myself again on Cactus Bluff, gazing east and ...
( Category: Hiking & Camping March 17,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-24 | Author:James Aldred

Chapter 6 Roaring Meg – Australia 2008 It was a warm autumn day in the temperate rainforests of the Hume Plateau, south-east Australia. The air was thick with the tangy ...
( Category: Specialty Travel March 17,2018 )