Travelers & Explorers
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-01 | Author:Julie Summers [Summers, Julie]

A selection of bills from Sandy’s collection showing equipment he purchased for the expedition When I read the reference to camp equipment I really began to get a feeling for ...
( Category: History of Sports December 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-05 | Author:Denise Inge [Inge, Denise]

5 Naters As the night train rumbled towards Zürich, a sudden staccato rap on the cabin door interrupted my weary sleep; it was an abrupt wake-up call. The half-Hungarian in ...
( Category: Literary & Religious December 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 2001-07-16 | Author:Consuelo de Saint-Exupery

TONIO WAS DOING LESS PILOTING, but his love of aviation only grew. Generous and unthinking by nature, he brought home all his friends from the boulevards and the cafés, and ...
( Category: Authors December 6,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-12-04 | Author:Kathryn Aalto

A stream in the forest In other ways, water is a source for quiet reflection and a metaphor for the passing of time. In The House at Pooh Corner, Milne ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers December 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-02 | Author:Elaine Sciolino [Sciolino, Elaine]

I NEVER WOULD HAVE talked about religion in my proper, refined neighborhood off the rue du Bac. But along the rue des Martyrs, religion is a natural part of life. ...
( Category: General December 2,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Mark Tully

In the newspaper article that first inspired me to set out on my journey to Ireland, John O’Donohue called for ‘prophetic reflection’. He had also described his country as having ...
( Category: India & South Asia November 26,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Lawrence Durrell

* Cypress Handbook, 1919. Chapter Eight: The Winds of Promise The fox in her sleep dreams always of chickens. If the baby doesn’t cry, Mother won’t suckle. One does not ...
( Category: Travel November 26,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-03 | Author:Aspen Matis

MAY 31, KENNEDY MEADOWS, THE GATEWAY TO THE HIGH SIERRA, MILE 702 We had at last reached the northern edge of the desert. Kennedy Meadows was the last resupply stop ...
( Category: Aspen November 25,2015 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Jonathan Franklin

CHAPTER 9 Encounters with a Whale June 1, 2013 Position: 4,400 miles off the coast of Mexico N 6° 24' 00.85'' – W 159° 21' 22.34'' Day 196 The rasp ...
( Category: Fishing November 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Jenner, Lynn [Jenner, Lynn]

Maps and guides Recently I found this particular diagrammatic version of Abraham Maslow’s ‘Hierarchy of Needs’.23 Abraham Maslow, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, created the hierarchy in America during ...
( Category: Poetry November 18,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-06 | Author:Molly Wizenberg [Wizenberg, Molly]

14 About three weeks out from our projected opening, we began hiring a staff. I guess it seems risky to wait so long, and it probably was, but it’s not ...
( Category: Seattle November 16,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Nick Cave

• From inside the sick bag I hear strange, dissonant chanting. I open the bag and discover a set of miniature deities, surrounded by their prostrated and adoring acolytes. Oh ...
( Category: Travel November 12,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:James Chilton

The route plan of Aero Argentinas’ in-flight magazine still laid Argentinian claim not only to ‘Islas Malvinas’ but also South Georgia and The South Sandwich Islands. The TV national weather ...
( Category: Travel November 12,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Anjan Sundaram

PART II HALF EMERGENCES 13 A sequence of wooden kiosks had been erected on the barge. Most were stuffed with supplies. A few were empty. The kiosks were near the ...
( Category: General November 12,2015 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-02-21 | Author:Dickens, Charles [Dickens, Charles]

TO ROME BY PISA AND SIENA There is nothing in Italy, more beautiful to me, than the coast-road between Genoa and Spezzia. On one side: sometimes far below, sometimes nearly ...
( Category: Essays November 4,2015 )