Travelers & Explorers
epub, mobi |eng | 1882-01-01 | Author:Théophile Gautier [Gautier, Théophile]

* Arria Marcella made a sign to Octavian to lie down upon the biclinium beside her and share her repast. Half-maddened with astonishment and love, the young man took at ...
( Category: Ghosts March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-02 | Author:Juliette Sobanet [Sobanet, Juliette]

*** The feeling of Julien’s arms squeezing tighter around my waist startled me awake. Camille must’ve been taking another one of her extra sharp turns. I blinked my eyes, adjusting ...
( Category: Humorous March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joshua Slocum

CHAPTER XII Seventy-two days without a port—Whales and birds—A peep into the Spray’s galley—Flying-fish for breakfast—A welcome at Apia—A visit from Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson—At Vailima—Samoan hospitality—Arrested for fast riding—An ...
( Category: Narratives March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-07-31 | Author:Henri Barbusse [Barbusse, Henri]

15 The Egg WE were badly off, hungry and thirsty; and in these wretched quarters there was nothing! Something had gone wrong with the revictualing department and our wants were ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2003-03-25 | Author:Simon Winchester

( Category: Travel Writing March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:David Maraniss

In a survey of college admissions officers, Punahou was ranked among the ten best secondary schools in the nation. Mrs. Lucille Finlayson was reminded of that status almost every day ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-04-11 | Author:Gene Kranz [Kranz, Gene]

I recognized a few of the Thompson committee members. Frank Borman, the Gemini astronaut, and Max Faget, the director of engineering, were from MSC, and John Williams was from the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1998-11-22 | Author:Bryson, Bill [Bryson, Bill]

Chapter sixteen I HAD ALWAYS thought that New England was nothing but maple trees and white churches and old guys in checked shirts sitting around iron stoves in country general ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:William Least Heat-Moon

Money half gone, I’d come up with a bit of epistemological small change. Not knowing what else to do, I drove off westward. The highway rolled out of the mountains ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1999-08-31 | Author:Bill Bryson [Bryson, Bill]

Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html And it has left me with the profoundest joy and gratitude DECK THE HALLS When I left you last time, I was expressing ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1991-01-02 | Author:Tony Horwitz [Horwitz, Tony]

10—LIBYA—Colonel's Big Con Woman is a female and man is a male. —MUAMMAR QADDAFI, The Green Book The summons came, like so many others, on a bad phone line in ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Peter Matthiessen [Matthiessen, Peter]

Toward midmorning, Jonah and I head west across the Garamba River, on a four-hundred-mile flight to Bangassou, in the Central African Republic. We have left the rivers that flow toward ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Steven Callahan [Callahan, Steven]

After a few minutes, the fire inside me subsides. I set about the endless, heavy work of bailing and wringing things out. Perhaps when I get back I will have ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-04-01 | Author:Downie, David [Downie, David]

THE ORIGINAL SEE-FOREVER VIEW The megalomaniacal President François Mitterrand may have had a few flaws, but he also had good taste. He’d bought the rounded crown of Mont Beuvray, and ...
( Category: Memoirs March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:W. G. Sebald [Sebald, W. G.]

It was as if I had been walking for hours before the tiled roofs of houses and the crest of a wooded hill gradually became defined. The Dunwich of the ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )