Travelers & Explorers
epub |eng | | Author:Christine Toomey

On the evening the sesshin ends, a nun ushers me into Aoyama Roshi’s private quarters. Throughout the long hours of ceremony over the previous days, I have watched her serious ...
( Category: Specialty Travel March 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-13 | Author:John Heminway

Were Anne and Carmen lovers? In testimony after the war, Anne denied a lesbian relationship. She claimed their friendship was altogether innocent, born out of common heritage and shared intellectual ...
( Category: Africa March 14,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-09-03 | Author:Chris Dombrowski

IT WOULD DOUBTLESSLY EMBARRASS HIM TO KNOW THIS, but I call Mervin “the Magician” for the way he seems to make fish appear on a previously vacant flat. Often I ...
( Category: Hunting & Fishing March 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-28 | Author:Kuehn, Henry H.;

While never living in the United States, Legorreta, like Le Corbusier, had a profound impact on architectural development in America. Legorreta introduced Mexican modernism to a global audience and brought ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 14,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Debbie Clarke Moderow

In the end Mark completes Copper Basin, but it isn’t pretty. He stops for ten minutes at Tolsona, twenty miles from the finish, to go inside and fix a failing ...
( Category: Specific Groups March 14,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-09-26 | Author:Emily Nunn [Nunn, Emily]

Aunt Mariah’s Pot Roast * * * Serves 4 Use a cast-iron pot with a lid because it’s cooked on top of the stove and then in the oven. Corn ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-07 | Author:Rebecca Ascher-Walsh

Zoey welcomes attention with a K-9 Comfort Dog vest and a Green Bay Packers collar. Credit 44 Zoey is the first dog to be placed at a university and given ...
( Category: Pets & Animal Care March 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-12-07 | Author:Amy Thomas

DATE NIGHT! Whether it’s your first, fifth, or fiftieth, a great date brings you ever closer to your lover—and the city. It’s that magical formula of romance and charm, food ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-27 | Author:Jon Krakauer

Gates of the Arctic The route climbed to a high divide that was notched like a gunsight between bald granite cliffs. Humping a big load up the pass, I was ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-27 | Author:John Banville

*1 Maurice Craig doubts the suggestion that the White House in Washington is a copy of Leinster House. However, the architect of the White House, James Hoban, was born in ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 13,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Helen Stevenson

CHERRY PIE PROJECT Shortly before the cherries ripened, a month before the May reelection, I was approached by a deputation from the Foyer de Jeunesse, who are involved with creating ...
( Category: Europe March 13,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-05-16 | Author:Dan Hampton [Hampton, Dan]

PART THREE By day, or on a cloudless night, a pilot may drink the wine of the gods. —CHARLES LINDBERGH EIGHT CROSSING THE BRIDGE I’VE FINALLY BROKEN the spell of ...
( Category: Historical March 13,2018 )
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 13,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2018-03-12 | Author:John Muir

Mount Hoffman and Lake Tenaya July 26. Ramble to the summit of Mount Hoffman, eleven thousand feet high, the highest point in life’s journey my feet have yet touched. And ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 12,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Marvin Kalb

I had asked myself when I arrived in this historic city whether twentieth-century Samarkand could somehow match the allure of fifteenth-century Samarkand. My answer was no. The beauty of old ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 12,2018 )