Travelers & Explorers
epub |eng | | Author:Glen Chilton [Glen Chilton ]

EVERYONE IS ENTITLED to a bad day now and then. Once in a while, for reasons completely beyond your control, a day goes wrong from beginning to end. On a ...
( Category: Ornithology December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-26 | Author:Caroline Moorehead [Caroline Moorehead]

PERSUASION, NOT PROPAGANDA CHAPTER SIX Freya’s talents were now widely recognised to lie in propaganda, or, as she preferred to call it, persuasion. Among the generals she had become a ...
( Category: Travel December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Steinbeck

In Adlai Stevenson’s first campaign for the Presidency Steinbeck wrote scores of speeches to be delivered by supporters at rallies in the eastern half of the United States. This letter ...
( Category: Authors December 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-05-11 | Author:Jennifer Baggett

Amanda and Jen sat next to me on my spartan twin bed inside the dorm. Their stuffed backpacks leaned against the wall beside us, an unwelcome reminder that they’d soon ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers December 21,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-12-10 | Author:Barghouti, Mourid [Barghouti, Mourid]

I contemplated the guesthouse on whose platform I stood. This is my first place. The faces of its men and their voices come back to me. Or is it my ...
( Category: Middle Eastern December 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-05 | Author:Michael Levy [Levy, Michael]

The Taiwan Problem Our first game was scheduled for a Saturday night against the Guizhou Military Academy. We donned our yellow jerseys and boarded the team bus at 3:30 p.m. ...
( Category: General December 19,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-03-20 | Author:Cheryl Strayed

PART FOUR WILD When I had no roof I made Audacity my roof. ROBERT PINSKY, “Samurai Song” Never never never give up. WINSTON CHURCHILL 11 THE LOU OUT OF LOU ...
( Category: Pacific December 19,2014 )
mobi |rus | 2004-06-29 | Author:Robert Kurson

By Chatterton’s calculation, it should take no more than a week to receive the answer. For his part, Kohler continued to rampage through historical texts, learning the patrols of America-bound ...
( Category: State & Local December 19,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-08 | Author:Christopher Stewart

UNCORRECTED E-PROOF—NOT FOR SALE HarperCollins Publishers .................................................................. “BEYOND HOPE” WITHOUT EVIDENCE OF the ancient city, Morde turned again to rumor. The first story of Ciudad Blanca came from a man ...
( Category: Travel Writing December 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-12-31 | Author:Chris Stewart

10 A Parrot in the Pepper Tree Outside our holiday cottage, El Duque, is a false pepper tree. We planted it as a seed, a little thing encased in what ...
( Category: Travel December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2001-12-31 | Author:Jake MacDonald

24 I cooked dinner and waited for the sun to go down. What I knew about bears was a combination of information from old-timers like Junior Robinson, book research, and ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-12-31 | Author:Chris Stewart

9 Casa & Campo Some years later I found myself reflecting on Mourad’s reaction to our home, after a phonecall from one Eduardo Mencos. El Valero had looked depressingly like ...
( Category: Travel December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 1969-12-31 | Author:Nicholas Tomalin & Ron Hall

ENJOYED ROUND THE HORN SAILING TOWARDS TRINIDAD WITH LAST SOUTHEAST TRADE AND BRAZIL CURRENT Hallworth rightly worked out that ‘round the Horn sailing’ meant round-the-Horn-type sailing. And he realised that ...
( Category: Narratives December 8,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1948-12-31 | Author:John Caldwell

17 Dismasted W hen I awakened, it was daylight. I didn’t waken because I had slept enough, or because the daylight had caught my eye. Not forty-eight hours of sleep ...
( Category: Excursion Guides December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-31 | Author:Geoff Nicholson

I don’t know that the guy yelling at me was a freak, but I did keep my head down and continued walking at a brisk New York pace all the ...
( Category: Adventure December 8,2014 )