Travelers & Explorers
epub |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Ruth Silvestre [Ruth Silvestre]

‘You’d better come and have a look,’ he said. He had now reached the end section of the wall directly under the chimney and, instead of beautiful stones, had suddenly ...
( Category: General October 16,2014 )
epub |eng, eng | 2011-11-29 | Author:Gerald Durrell

The Michelin Man Many years ago, when I first started to travel in France, a kindly friend pressed a copy of the Guide Michelin into my hands, rather in the ...
( Category: Fauna October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-25 | Author:Andrew Taylor

Walter Ghim almost certainly watched his friend at work on these globes, and later, he described them in admiration. "One [was] of purest blown crystal, and one of wood. On ...
( Category: General October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ernest Shackleton

CHAPTER X ACROSS SOUTH GEORGIA The sun rose in the sky with every appearance of a fine day, and we grew warmer as we toiled through the soft snow. Ahead ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-28 | Author:André Aciman

Becket’s Winter For about a month or so in the winter of 1965, we spoke of little else but the movie Becket. Becket burst into our narrow little world the ...
( Category: General October 16,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2005-04-30 | Author:Herman Melville [Melville, Herman]

XXXII. THE DOCKS For more than six weeks, the ship Highlander lay in Prince's Dock; and during that time, besides making observations upon things immediately around me, I made sundry ...
( Category: Sea Stories October 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Jessica Pan

MARCH 6 Rachel to Jess Help! Two problems! How the hell do you get glitter out of your eyelashes and how do you get the scent of a gallon of ...
( Category: Travel October 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-27 | Author:Melanie Jones

'Cor, I'd love to know what that frigid old bat's saying,' whispered Tracey into my ear. 'Actually, for once I'm glad I can't speak the language.' After giving the poor ...
( Category: General October 9,2014 )
epub |eng | 1995-10-08 | Author:Charles Bukowski [Bukowski, Charles]

So we got into the car and drove over. “Now you know,” said unc, “the American troops were stationed downstairs there. Your mother and her mother and father lived upstairs ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers October 9,2014 )
epub |deu | 2010-10-11 | Author:Eat, Pray, Love [Love, Eat, Pray,]

54 Heute Morgen habe ich verschlafen. Das heißt: Ich habe doch tatsächlich bis Viertel nach vier im Bett gelegen. Nur wenige Minuten, ehe die Gurugita beginnen sollte, wachte ich auf, ...
( Category: Women October 1,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-04 | Author:Ashley Judd

Chapter 14 SHADES OF HOPE My grandmother of choice, Tennie “Mennie” McCarty, and me at my Harvard graduation. One cannot begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows. ...
( Category: Rich & Famous September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-05-12 | Author:Colin Woodard [Woodard, Colin]

As he looked over his new prize, Blackbeard knew he had finally found a proper flagship. La Concorde was as big, fast, and powerful as Bellamy’s now infamous Whydah, maybe ...
( Category: History September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Theroux

9 “I Must Keep Some Secrets” VIDIA SPOKE about finding me, yet my conceit was that I had discovered him. Both could have been true. Friendship is often a case ...
( Category: Travel September 22,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:Paul Theroux [Theroux, Paul]

9. On a cold drizzly afternoon in July—Malawi’s independence day—I rode my bicycle into town. I could hear music coming from the stadium, and howling crowd-voices, and applause. But the ...
( Category: Authors September 22,2014 )