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Conversations with Galileo by William Shea
epub |eng | 2019-03-14 | Author:William Shea

I’ve heard it said that professors give private lessons to young noblemen. Did you do any of that? Of course – that was one of the first things I did, ...
( Category: Astronomy March 25,2020 )
Lean Out by Tara Henley
epub |eng | 2020-03-24 | Author:Tara Henley [Henley, Tara]

* * * — I knew when I heard the message from my doctor’s receptionist, asking me to come straight in, that it wasn’t going to be good. I picked ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 25,2020 )
Nate's Edge by William Meador
epub |eng | | Author:William Meador [Meador, William]

20 The two men exhausted every gambling house and saloon in Abilene looking for Nate Carter. He was not found. “This is ridiculous! How could he disappear so completely?” “I ...
( Category: United States March 25,2020 )
Footprints Across America by Michael McMonagle
epub |eng | 2013-11-14 | Author:Michael McMonagle

14 Anchorage, Alaska Alaska. The word is like a sharp, clear bell ringing in the mountain air. It has always appealed to my sense of wonder and curiosity. I imagined ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 25,2020 )
Shooting Stars and Flying Fish by Nancy Knudsen
epub |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:Nancy Knudsen

As we sail on, the smell of cow manure and fresh-cut grass reaches us from over the mountains, where there must be pastures. But there are no birds, anywhere. Where ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 25,2020 )
Lean Out: A Meditation on the Madness of Modern Life by Tara Henley
epub |eng | 2020-03-24 | Author:Tara Henley

* * * — I knew when I heard the message from my doctor’s receptionist, asking me to come straight in, that it wasn’t going to be good. I picked ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 25,2020 )
The Coast Mappers by Taylor Morrison
epub |eng | | Author:Taylor Morrison [Morrison, Taylor]

The next two seasons were a great success. In the spring of 1854 Davidson got his own ship. It was a good idea, because he and Alden constantly irritated each ...
( Category: Ships March 25,2020 )
All This Marvelous Potential: Robert Kennedy's 1968 Tour of Appalachia by Matthew Algeo
epub |eng | 2020-03-03 | Author:Matthew Algeo [Algeo, Matthew]

25 Lurleen THERE WERE SO MANY TRAGEDIES in the spring of 1968 that the agonizing demise of Lurleen Wallace, the incumbent governor of Alabama, barely registered beyond the state’s borders ...
( Category: Elections March 24,2020 )
Buen Camino! by Peter Murtagh
epub |eng | 2011-11-27 | Author:Peter Murtagh

BERCIANOS DEL CAMINO PETER: Pity poor Bercianos. It’s a one-horse town and even he has checked out. Bercianos’ one obvious asset, the church of San Salvador, a substantial structure on ...
( Category: Irish March 24,2020 )
Abundant Beauty by Marianne North
epub |eng | 2010-07-02 | Author:Marianne North

About sunset we came to whole forests of palmyra palms, like those of Tanjore, set as those were, in the water. They looked particularly fine against the sunset sky. Half ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers March 24,2020 )
Aberdeen in Vintage Postcards by Tom Hayes
epub |eng | 2011-09-15 | Author:Tom Hayes

Real photo of the first streetcar in Aberdeen. These cars were very elegant with aisles carpeted in red. A typical car could carry 30-40 passengers with additional riders standing and ...
( Category: Postcards March 24,2020 )
Behind the Urals by John Scott
epub |eng | | Author:John Scott

PART SIX. The Battle of Iron and Steel I During the early thirties the main energies of the Soviet Union went into construction. New plants, mines, whole industries, sprang up ...
( Category: United States March 23,2020 )
The Vast Unknown by Broughton Coburn
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Broughton Coburn

Chapter 17 Uncertainty The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. —URSULA K. LE GUIN FOR THE WEST RIDGERS, MATTERS WERE GETTING ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing March 23,2020 )
The Pianist of Yarmouk by Aeham Ahmad
epub |eng | 2019-01-17 | Author:Aeham Ahmad [Ahmad, Aeham]

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN One day, when Samer and I were selling falafel, I saw a small, plump woman rush past. She was wearing a headscarf and a lot of make-up, and ...
( Category: Military March 23,2020 )
High Exposure by David Breashears
epub |eng | 2009-03-14 | Author:David Breashears [David Breashears]

STRANGE WINDS CHAPTER EIGHT Nameless Tower, Karakoram, Pakistan. After Dawa Nuru’s death I began to understand that even though I’d climbed Everest more than once, and might return to it ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing March 23,2020 )

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