Travelers & Explorers
epub |eng | 2012-05-11 | Author:Irving, Washington [Irving, Washington]

Appendix: Containing Illustrations and Documents. No. I. Transportation of the Remains of Columbus from St. Domingo to the Havana. At the termination of a war between France and Spain, in ...
( Category: General November 6,2014 )
epub |deu | 2013-06-01 | Author:Thor Heyerdahl [Heyerdahl,Thor]

Watzinger und seine Beute. Von allen Fischen, die uns im Stillen Ozean begegnen, schmecken die Bonitos am besten. Manchmal kommen sie sogar freiwillig. „Haugland, halt dich fest!" Achteraus an der ...
( Category: General November 4,2014 )
epub |eng | 1997-01-15 | Author:Jon Krakauer [Krakauer, Jon]

“Who could resist? And Chris knew it. He’d have this look on his face like ‘I’m damn cute! Want to buy some beans?’ By the time he came home, the ...
( Category: Pacific October 31,2014 )
epub | | | Author:A House for Mr Biswas

( Category: Criticism & Theory October 31,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Peter Matthiessen & Jane Goodall [Matthiessen, Peter]

Until recent years, when the elephant herds have become concentrated in game reserves and parks, it has been difficult to study elephants, since one could not stay close enough to ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays October 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-05 | Author:Howard Frank Mosher [Mosher, Howard Frank]

31 Why I Am a Cross-Country Skier, Part 1 The conditions that morning were ideal for skiing. The temperature was about ten degrees above zero. It was clear and windless. ...
( Category: Travel October 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-10 | Author:Tony Brasunas [Brasunas, Tony]

The following week brings the year near its close. I give exams. I sit on the breezy hallway outside my classroom and call my students out one by one. Jenny, ...
( Category: General October 31,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-11 | Author:Gail Gutradt [Gutradt, Gail]

22 “We Did Not Know You” Some of the most important things that happen for me at Wat Opot come from stillness. When I am not busy doing, I have ...
( Category: General October 31,2014 )
azw3, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jennifer Gargiulo

“Can we go to Hong Kong to get an eraser?” If you have a five-year-old expat kid in Singapore, do not be surprised. To them, this is a totally plausible ...
( Category: Travel October 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-25 | Author:Claire Diaz-Ortiz [Diaz-Ortiz, Claire and Samuel Ikua Gachagua]

Malawi (the room) is not good to me and Lara that night, and when we wake up at five the next morning, we have barely slept. Although getting up is ...
( Category: Religious October 27,2014 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-03 | Author:Caro Feely & Caro

'C'est vrai. But it would be a pity to lose it. C'est très joli.' The botrytis noble rot was not what the average person would call pretty. The grapes were ...
( Category: General October 27,2014 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Alan Paul

Chapter 19 Them Changes My day-to-day existence was being transformed, with the band moving from a fun little side project into a far more central place in my life. This ...
( Category: Blues October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Sean Stewart [Stewart, Sean]

Meanwhile, in a turbolift moving briskly toward the Taupe Corridor of Level 17A, Scout and Solis were debating the conduct of the Republic and the Confederacy in the current conflict. ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2002-10-15 | Author:Isadora Tattlin

III. 18 I am taken to meet Alfonse, aka El Ingles (the Englishman) because his father was an East Indian from Jamaica. Alfonse is a handsome negro de pelo who ...
( Category: General October 16,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-10-15 | Author:Stephen Fry

The mighty Tower of Invincibility, seen here looking up at an architectural feature of the Maharishi University. M.U.M. Since 1974 the Maharishi University of Management (formerly Maharishi International University) has ...
( Category: Satire October 16,2014 )