Travelers & Explorers
epub |eng | | Author:Geoff Dyer

6 My mother grew up on a farm in the village of Worthen in Shropshire. I never liked going there to visit my grandparents: house and surrounding countryside shared an ...
( Category: Travel Writing September 9,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Drinkwater, Carol [Drinkwater, Carol]

6 We had taken our time deciding whether or not to fell the survivor of our revered pair of cherry trees. The first had died over a year before. We ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides September 9,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Crocker, Aimée; [Crocker, Aimée]

( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-08 | Author:Carol Drinkwater [DRINKWATER, CAROL]

NOT LONG AFTER THE Romans began to press the oil here in France, rather than using the method of the more popular Italian family-run businesses, the cooperative system was established. ...
( Category: Europe September 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-08 | Author:Carol Drinkwater [DRINKWATER, CAROL]

I wake into a world in which my head is throbbing in a thick and muzzy way, where the base of my spine is as rigid as an iron rod ...
( Category: Travel Writing September 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-16 | Author:Jean Gill

10. The Badlands and Olive Oil Chocolate There is more to life than a kitchen – or even a house – and so we fill in forms. Our application for ...
( Category: Europe September 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-10 | Author:Crawford, J. Grigsby [Crawford, J. Grigsby]

ONCE, IN A RESTAURANT, I had a conversation that went like this: Teenage girl: “Where are you from?” Me: “The U.S.” Girl: “Ah, and do you speak English?” Me: “Yes, ...
( Category: South America September 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-14 | Author:Tommy Caldwell

PART THREE CHAPTER ELEVEN I run my tongue along my teeth. Ahhh, clean at last. A mint taste replaces the fuzz of microwaved burrito and coffee that had taken up ...
( Category: Mountaineering September 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-01 | Author:Dillon, Richard [Dillon, Richard]

Wakeman sailed up the Mississippi River on the second seagoing vessel to reach Vicksburg. Here he engaged in sundry duels and romances before hurrying off to the Mexican War. He ...
( Category: United States September 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 1999-11-01 | Author:Robert Santelli & Emily Davidson

Notes 1. Michael Denning, The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (New York: Verso, 1996), 272. 2. For preliminary discussions of the American way, see ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2001-06-05 | Author:Michael Paterniti [Paterniti, Michael]

By contrast, Bob Larson is fifty-ish with a strange, anvil-shaped wedge of hair and a G.I. Joe beard. Rolled-up sleeves and a loosened tie. Furry knuckles. Bat-wing eyebrows. The carefully ...
( Category: Travel Writing September 8,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-06-28 | Author:W.G. Sebald

It was as if I had been walking for hours before the tiled roofs of houses and the crest of a wooded hill gradually became defined. The Dunwich of the ...
( Category: Contemporary September 8,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2004-04-13 | Author:Nicholas Sparks

Despite graduating with high honors, I wasn’t accepted to any of the law schools to which I’d applied, and so that door was closed even before it opened. All my ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-31 | Author:Packer, George [Packer, George]

CHAPTER 8 Three Africas Ouagadougou The road to Ouagadougou is long from any Direction, and flat and empty. As far as you can see the earth stretches out, cracked and ...
( Category: Anthropology September 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-07 | Author:Lucinda Fleeson

CHAPTER FIFTEEN A Walk on Mahaulepu — Deconstructing Extinction WHENEVER IN NEED of a restoration of the spirit, I drove to Mahaulepu, the stretch of deserted white sand I deemed ...
( Category: Gardening & Landscape Design September 7,2017 )