Travelers & Explorers
epub |eng | 2017-03-30 | Author:Karin Esterhammer

Aside from District 1’s decorations, it wasn’t Christmas anywhere else in the city. In fact, December 25 was a school day like any other. In an effort to help the ...
( Category: World March 17,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-03-17 | Author:Frances Mayes

Standing in front of 8, rue de Colette (formerly rue de l’Hospice), with her inspired, passionate descriptions in mind, I confront a tall dun-colored house with white shutters. It looks ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 17,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-21 | Author:Robert Rodi [Rodi, Robert]

HISTORY and LEGEND … HAVING RENEWED MY ACQUAINTANCE WITH GIULIANO Ghiselli at the captain’s dinner, it seems almost natural that he should show up the next morning on C3 Toscana, ...
( Category: Europe March 17,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-16 | Author:Dr. Tim Warren

“Don’t hope – decide.” —Tsering Dokkar Sherpa One of main things I did differently in 2008 was to make my mind an asset rather than a liability. I read many ...
( Category: Biographies March 16,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-21 | Author:Laura Hartema

11 DANGER WHEN the weather gets rough, a choice has to be made: keep fishing in an attempt to make more money; find shelter leeward of an island and wait ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 16,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-10 | Author:Helen Thayer

A favorite game is to race full speed through the stream, dousing playmates along the way. We were delighted to see that the wolves didn’t mind Charlie’s occasional interaction with ...
( Category: Biological Sciences March 16,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-01 | Author:Roger Deakin

5 Borrow & Thoreau North Wales, 14 June I WENT TO Wales because the place is stiff with magic, because the Rhinog Mountains are something like a wilderness where I ...
( Category: Water Sports March 16,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-16 | Author:Bernadette McDonald

TEN The Shining Wall Heaven is the place where you think of nowhere else. —Pico Iyer, The Art of Stillness If there is one mountain that will forever be associated ...
( Category: Mountaineering March 16,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-30 | Author:S. Allen Counter

When I arrived in Cambridge, an autumn snow had given the old Harvard Yard a picture-postcard beauty. The branches of the huge elm trees strained from the thick, cottonlike snow, ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2005-03-14 | Author:Ekow Eshun

IV Thinking about Capitein led me to remember the day my family moved out of Kingsbury. I’d already left home for university by then. With Esi and Kodwo gone before ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-27 | Author:Edward J. Larson

Chapter 9 On Top of the World TWO MONTHS TO THE day after Shackleton’s southern party claimed Robert Peary’s record for reaching nearest a geographical pole, the American, without knowing ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-13 | Author:Hugh Thomson

The people ‘coming forth in white raiment’ were the Westmorland Seekers, and the reason that George Fox’s message found such a quick reception. The Seekers had been established in this ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides March 14,2018 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-10-22 | Author:Laurence Bergreen

AS MARCO veered back toward the east, heading for Hangzhou, he traveled the rivers of China. Although he was familiar with the sight of the canals of Venice teeming with ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-14 | Author:Pat Barr [Pat Barr]

CHAPTER VI The Doctor’s Wife HENRIETTA BIRD, writing to Ella Blackie from Mull in the summer of 1873, reported that she had recently received ‘three delightful cheerful letters from Isa…. ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides March 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:Theodore Roosevelt

A lonely grave by the wayside At more than one halting-place we had come across the forlorn grave of some soldier or laborer of the commission From a photograph by ...
( Category: South America March 14,2018 )