epub |eng | 1956-01-01 | Author:Elisabeth Elliot [Elliot, Elisabeth]

When I climbed out of the plane and greeted Ed, I asked him how he'd like to go looking for his 'neighbors.' He was all for it, so we set ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-16 | Author:Martin Middlebrook [ Middlebrook Martin]

CHAPTER FIFTEEN May the 25th In an attempt to help with the intense air battle, Admiral Woodward had posted two of his ships, Coventry and Broadsword, as a ‘42–22 combination ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-16 | Author:Ian Gardiner [Gardiner, Ian R]

The rucksacks with our spare rations were flown in at first light so we were not very hungry for very long. However, from now on, men started building up little ...

epub |eng | 2015-07-27 | Author:Juliana Barbassa [Barbassa, Juliana]

* * * I. In addition to not helping remedy Rio’s low-income housing deficit, building the Vila do Pan required the removal of about one hundred favela houses. The reason ...

epub |eng | 2015-09-03 | Author:Victoria Bruce [Bruce, Victoria]

14 Capture and Extradition For a few days in October 2003, after Botero’s footage of the three American hostages appeared in the United States on CBS’s 60 Minutes II, the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-20 | Author:William C. Rempel [Rempel, William C.]

THE MOTHER LODE OF DOCUMENTS and cartel records scooped up by Bloque raiders at Pallomari’s expense finally gave Colonel Velásquez a big victory, his first real measure of satisfaction in ...

epub |eng | 2007-07-19 | Author:Bart Jones [Jones, Bart]

Rather than petering out, the mudslinging got worse. Urdaneta’s accusations against Miquilena included charges that he was a shareholder in a printing company that won a noncompetitive contract from the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2015-07-17 | Author:Hiram Bingham [Bingham, Hiram]

So we went back up the Hill of Roses to make further studies and to do some excavating. On the south side of the hilltop, opposite the long palace, is ...

epub |eng, eng | 2015-06-19 | Author:Urton, Gary,von Hagen, Adriana & Adriana von Hagen [Urton, Gary & Hagen, Adriana von]

HUACA Often glossed as “sacred place,” huaca is a term used frequently by the Spanish chroniclers to invoke a concept that they clearly understood to be a core principle, or ...

epub, mobi, azw3 | | 2011-01-14 | Author:Grandin, Greg [Greg, Grandin,]

CHAPTER 14 LET’S WANDER OUT YONDER IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL THE STORY OF FORDLANDIA WITHout invoking Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, that great, indelible allegory of European colonialism ...

epub |eng | 2004-04-12 | Author:Robert Whitaker [Whitaker, Robert]

Samuel Fritz’s Map of the Amazon, 1707. By permission of the British Library. FROM THE BEGINNING of the French expedition, there had been some talk that the group, as a ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-06-05 | Author:Mark Bowden

It is difficult to reconstruct precisely what happened on the rooftop. Each Search Bloc member interviewed for this story provided an account based on what he had seen. Certain details ...

epub, mobi | | 2005-10-13 | Author:David Grann [Grann, David]

Still, Holt was determined to see the expedition through, and went to Rio to collect supplies. Fawcett, meanwhile, was turning over in his mind every aspect of Holt's performance: each ...

epub |eng | | Author:Ernesto Che Guevara [Guevara, Ernesto Che]

azw3 |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Levi-Strauss, Claude [Levi-Strauss, Claude]

Fig 28. A lip ornament and earrings made of mother-of-pearl and feathers Gradually, all these people went away; we were sharing the hut, which measured approximately twelve metres by five, ...