Travelers & Explorers
mobi, epub |eng | 1963-11-01 | Author:Ian Fleming

8 HAMBURG SHE WAS A big girl with a good figure. She wore nothing but a frilly white bathing-cap and short black bathing-trunks. During the fight in the pool of ...
( Category: Spies & Politics September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-09-21 | Author:Lucinda Holdforth [Holdforth, Lucinda]

In Nancy Mitford’s fictional world, the realization of every girl’s dreams lies in Paris. All her best heroines find their destinies there. There’s Linda of The Pursuit of Love and ...
( Category: Women September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lynn Sherr

7 * * * EXPLOSIONS SPRING/SUMMER 1985–SUMMER 1986 Tam, Atlanta, 1985. Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life and a secret life. —Gabriel García Márquez TAM “I ...
( Category: Women September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-20 | Author:David Eimer

Part III YUNNAN – TROUBLE IN PARADISE The term savages, used by so many authors to denote all hill tribes of Indo-China, is very inaccurate and misleading, as many of ...
( Category: Travel September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-31 | Author:Sukey Forbes

August 22–30 It has been a memorable summer. We relocated the Bigham home (from Woodside, California, to Weston, Massachusetts) in June and then had an idyllic month of July here ...
( Category: Love & Loss September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Duncan Fallowell [Duncan Fallowell]

The night winds dropped, the following day was again sunny, and Eigg glowed with warmth. The principal house of the island is called the Lodge and is the seat of ...
( Category: LGBT September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Eric Newby [Eric Newby]

CHAPTER FOURTEEN A Nice Bit of Crêpe ‘There was nothing basically new in the latest London Designers Collection for Export … Very little handling of new colour … One inch ...
( Category: European September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Eric Newby [Eric Newby]

CHAPTER ELEVEN Encounter with a Member of the Master Race After I had been nearly a week at the Pian del Sotto I had still received no news from Wanda ...
( Category: World War II September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:Pico Iyer [Iyer, Pico]

3 WINTER MADE EVERYONE a kind of monk in Japan, bringing out a streak of worldly asceticism that was never far from the surface in this land of spartan epicures. ...
( Category: General September 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-08-04 | Author:Marlena de Blasi

“I stop counting after five flights of narrow stone stairs, each one of which seems to veer off in a different direction. Valentino leads the way to a double wooden ...
( Category: Sicily September 16,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-11-19 | Author:John Steinbeck [Steinbeck, John]

And we were an outrage to the Spanish-Mexicans and they in their turn on the Indians. Could that be why the sequoias make folks nervous? Those natives were grown trees ...
( Category: Road Travel September 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-05 | Author:John Steinbeck

17 March 27 WE HAD collected extensively on the outer parts of Puerto Escondido, but not in the inner bay itself. At five-thirty A.M. Mexican time, we set out to ...
( Category: Marine Biology September 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2003-06-17 | Author:Richard Zacks [Zacks, Richard]

13. Stranded . . . with Treasure On St. Mary’s Island on June 16, 1698, the day after Culliford had sailed north, Captain Kidd found himself stranded in pirate paradise. ...
( Category: State & Local September 5,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-16 | Author:Italo Calvino [Calvino, Italo]

Italo Calvino I had left the draft of this letter in Turin; then I left for Rome and have not been back here for three weeks. I am signing it ...
( Category: European September 1,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-07 | Author:Fine, Jerramy [Fine, Jerramy]

Where to find your nearest hunt: Baily’s Hunting Directory, www.bailyshuntingdirectory.com. Faux pas: Mentioning the hunting ban (many are still very bitter about this); calling them “dogs” (they’re “hounds”). For more ...
( Category: Etiquette August 27,2014 )