Travelers & Explorers
epub |eng | 2009-03-20 | Author:Wilkie Collins [Collins, Wilkie]

* * * While we were sitting in the counting-house, we had some talk with our good-humoured and intelligent guide, on the subject of miners and mining at Botallack. Some ...
( Category: Europe December 17,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2004-07-10 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

345.jpg (145K) My apparatus was simple: a little red paint and a bit of white paper. I painted the ball of the client's thumb, took a print of it on ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-17 | Author:Minal Hajratwala [Hajratwala, Minal]

In December 1966, Bhanu bought her mother the first pair of shoes she had owned since traveling by ship from India: open-toed chappals, to wear to the physiotherapy graduation ceremony. ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers December 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-15 | Author:Padraig Rooney

When you leave the motorway for the lakeside road to Montreux, the town takes you by surprise. One overgrown fishing village blends into another: St Saphorin, Vevey, La Tour de ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers December 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-08 | Author:Martin Radford [Radford, Martin]

Chapter 9 The Channel Well, some cool and inclement weather has again prevented me from going out walking much over the past week or so, but this Sunday afternoon the ...
( Category: Travel Writing December 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-12 | Author:Nelson Algren

Sandburg’s Chicago, Dreiser’s Chicago, Farrell’s and Wright’s and my own Chicago, that was somebody else’s Chicago. That was a play with a different plot. Today the curtain rises on— Act ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides December 15,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Nicolson [Adam Nicolson]

10 IN MIDSUMMER, AS THE BIRDS were proliferating around me, and as the cotton grass began to show its white-tufted pennants in the bogs, as the flag irises flowered in ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers December 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-04 | Author:Franz Nicolay

For three of the past four days, I had awoken to blizzard conditions, as the snow I outran the day before caught up with me in the morning. This morning, ...
( Category: Travel Writing December 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-12-14 | Author:Todd Mayfield

As the year wore on, more heavy changes came over the world. In July, humanity broke its bond with Mother Earth and put its first footprints on the moon. In ...
( Category: Arts & Literature December 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-10 | Author:Bunty Avieson

14 A Victory for the Media Bhutan Observer’s four rural reporters come to Thimphu for a week of writing workshops. I’ve been looking forward to meeting them, particularly Gyembo Namgyal, ...
( Category: Historical December 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-22 | Author:Le Ly Hayslip [Hayslip, Le Ly]

MIDMORNING, APRIL 7, 1986: DANANG, SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM Our approach and landing at the great Danang airport is smooth and uneventful, but the calm of the cabin belies the ...
( Category: Specific Groups December 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-14 | Author:Pamela Olson [Olson, Pamela]

My Boss Decides to Run for President Dr. Barghouthi called an emergency meeting a few days after the Eid holidays were over. I was annoyed because I already had my ...
( Category: Middle East December 14,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Nicholas Sparks & Micah Sparks [Sparks, Nicholas & Sparks, Micah]

Late in the day, we headed back to Ayers Rock for the third time. This would be our chance to see how it changed colors at sunset. “I’m beginning to ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers December 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-16 | Author:Tobias Churton

On the night of 26 February 1918 Therion and Roddie Minor worked up some ‘Magical Energy’ resulting in Crowley’s being able to sit up till 5.30am ‘writing in the Book ...
( Category: Occult & Paranormal December 12,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-10 | Author:Mallowan, Agatha Christie [Mallowan, Agatha Christie]

Another furious dissension breaks out over the day of rest. The day after pay-day is always a holiday. The Mohammedans claim that since there are more Mohammedans than Christians on ...
( Category: Travel Writing December 12,2017 )