Travelers & Explorers
epub |eng | 2018-02-06 | Author:Meriwether Lewis

It was new country to the men. These were Easterners who had never seen such mountains, many of them still covered with snow in midsummer; they had never been in ...
( Category: Americas February 13,2018 )
mobi |eng | 1999-07-16 | Author:Anatoli Boukreev

Q: Did you go to Lene and Klev again? A: Yes, I look in the tent, I spoke with Lene and Klev. I said, “I didn’t find nobody. Where is? ...
( Category: Mountaineering February 10,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:bryson,bill [bryson,bill]

( Category: Travel Writing February 7,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-05 | Author:Ashley Judd

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: Movies February 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-27 | Author:Annie Hawes [Hawes, Annie]

* The Diano boys, like Mariuccia, also find the presence of a male in our household most comforting. In fact, they have developed an annoying tendency to address all their ...
( Category: Travel Writing February 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-23 | Author:William C. Rempel

The MGM special dividend of 1973, the $5.25 million that rescued Kirk from default on a German loan and saved his kingdom, remained a legal point of contention into 1977. ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-12 | Author:Sari Nusseibeh

Chapter Nineteen A Declaration of Independence FOLLOWING MY NATURAL INCLINATION, I did my best to look and act like the good soldier Schweik, naïve and not entirely of this world. ...
( Category: Middle East February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Smith

A dozen Sligo pilots and their friends gathered the next morning for the Sun’s departure. They helped me fuel up, polish the screens and top up the brake fluid. A ...
( Category: Specialty Travel February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-21 | Author:Sam Jefferson [Jefferson, Sam]

the sea devil treacherous to the sailor. There are currents that can set you many miles off your course before you even notice, leaving you lost for days amid labyrinths ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers February 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-16 | Author:Alice Jane Hamilton [Hamilton, Alice Jane]

Stromness and Orphir, Orkney [NOVEMBER 1854] I awoke long before daylight and lay in bed for a while, listening to Bessie humming to herself as she lit the fires and ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 4,2018 )
epub, mobi, azw |eng | 2011-04-30 | Author:Neil Peart [Peart, Neil]

In principle, those Hydro-Québec power lines are like the aqueducts in the American West, which also slice for hundreds of miles across uninhabited wilderness, deserts, and even mountains. But water ...
( Category: Arts & Literature February 2,2018 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-10-25 | Author:neil peart

Chorus Three “Drumming at the heart of an English winter” It used to be said that if you stood in London’s Piccadilly Circus long enough, you would meet everyone in ...
( Category: Arts & Literature February 2,2018 )
epub, mobi, azw3, azw |eng | 2014-09-30 | Author:Neil Peart [Peart, Neil]

With all those books to think about, I had no lack of raw material. And even better, none of that was pressing—yet it was rich with possible insights, connections, and ...
( Category: Arts & Literature February 2,2018 )
mobi |eng | 1997-10-06 | Author:Clive Cussler; Craig Dirgo

One of four new screw sloops fresh out of the shipyards of Boston, Housatonic mounted thirteen guns, one of them a big rifled hundred-pounder. She displaced 1,240 tons and measured ...
( Category: Military February 2,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-01-24 | Author:Mike Mullane

Chapter 22 Coming to America The next morning we prepared for reentry. We scrubbedDiscovery ’s walls and windows clean. An earlier crew had turned over a dirty vehicle to their ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics January 30,2018 )