Travelers & Explorers
epub |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Mireya Mayor & Jane Goodall [Mayor, Mireya & Goodall, Jane]

My grandmother, Mima, along with thousands of other Cubans, was forced to “volunteer” cutting sugarcane in the early days of Castro’s regime. In 1965, at age 20, my mom made ...
( Category: Women May 27,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-07-01 | Author:David Roberts [Roberts, David]

As he wrote the letter, Everett was sitting by his campfire beside the Escalante River, cooking dinner with two of his youthful new friends. Turning his thoughts to his burros, ...
( Category: United States May 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Isabel Allende [Allende, Isabel]

I don’t want to give the impression that we are all bad, we also have our virtues. Let me see, I’ll try to think of one. . . . Well, ...
( Category: Authors May 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1999-08-31 | Author:A. Scott Berg [Berg, A. Scott]

“I feel sure in closing,” Reilly said, “even Colonel Lindbergh wouldn’t expect you and doesn’t expect you to do anything but your duty under the law and under the evidence.” ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-18 | Author:David Roberts [Roberts, David]

As he wrote the letter, Everett was sitting by his campfire beside the Escalante River, cooking dinner with two of his youthful new friends. Turning his thoughts to his burros, ...
( Category: United States May 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-09-25 | Author:Sally Putnam Chapman & Stephanie Mansfield [CHAPMAN, SALLY PUTNAM]

12 A CONGRESSIONAL HERO JANUARY 29, 1929 It’s shocking! I’m becoming a shrew, a nag a scenemaker. I, who loathe all three. Would to God, I could suddenly become a ...
( Category: United States May 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-05 | Author:Norman Lewis [Norman Lewis]

CHAPTER 12 Cholon and Cochin-China AIR FRANCE PLANES from Dalat were booked up three weeks ahead. By what I thought at the time was a miracle I got a seat ...
( Category: Cambodia May 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-16 | Author:Freya Stark [STARK, FREYA]

The two rows repeat it, the poet retires, the one line advances to the other, raises hands over head as they meet, bows nearly to the ground and withdraws: they ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers May 6,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-02-24 | Author:Les Stroud [Stroud, Les]

* * * The Robertsons ELEMENTS OF SURVIVAL Knowledge 10% Luck 45% Kit 20% Will to Live 25% Almost an even split across the board. Dougal and his family had ...
( Category: Camping April 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-04-06 | Author:Nando Parrado [Parrado, Nando]

ON THE MORNING of November 15, Numa, Roberto, Tintin, and I stood outside the fuselage, looking down the valley that sloped off to the east ready to begin our escape. ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing April 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-27 | Author:Hugh Brewster

Edith Rosenbaum (photo credit 1.77) Thomas Andrews, meanwhile, circulated along the first-class hallways making sure that the stewards were getting passengers out of their staterooms. He saw stewardess May Sloan, ...
( Category: Rich & Famous April 6,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2001-12-07 | Author:Anthony Bourdain [Bourdain, Anthony]

We are barbarians. We are big, hairy, smelly, foreign devils, unsophisticated, loud, clumsy, overexpressive, and overfed, blundering thoughtlessly through life. At least that’s how you might feel when preparing yourself ...
( Category: Essays April 1,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-03-30 | Author:Graham Bowley

The second one also lay head-down against the ice but at a less steep angle. Both of the climbers, he saw, were still clipped onto the rope and hanging in ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing March 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-29 | Author:Collingbourne, Huw [Huw Collingbourne]

Note In Ruby 1.9, the instance_variables method returns an array of symbols. In Ruby 1.8, it returns an array of strings. Name Conflicts Module methods (those methods specifically preceded by ...
( Category: Ruby Programming March 31,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1982-12-15 | Author:Michael Ondaatje [Ondaatje, Michael]

THE PRODIGAL HARBOUR I arrived in a plane but love the harbour. Dusk. And the turning on of electricity in ships, portholes of moon, the blue glide of a tug, ...
( Category: Biographical March 29,2014 )