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Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester
epub |eng | 2015-05-16 | Author:Simon Winchester [Winchester, Simon]

The main outcrop of the Jurassic rocks in England. The Jurassic rocks here had been given names that were almost as sonorous as the villages on which they lay. The ...
( Category: Earth Sciences August 15,2017 )
Bizarre England by David Long
epub |eng | 2017-04-02 | Author:David Long [Long, David]

BACK TO BLACK Created in a Surrey laboratory using carbon nanotubes that were discovered in the 1990s, a new material called Vantablack is the blackest substance known to man. It ...
( Category: Europe August 15,2017 )
Card Sharks by unknow
epub |eng | 1993-01-01 | Author:unknow

So ends the narrative of J. Robert Belew, USSF, retired. The Ashes of Memory 5 "Hannah, don't sit down! Let's movel" "At least let me drink my coffee; traffic was ...
( Category: Science & Math August 15,2017 )
Enoch Arden and other poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson
epub |eng | 2000-08-01 | Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

SEA DREAMS. A CITY clerk, but gently born and bred; His wife, an unknown artist's orphan child-- One babe was theirs, a Margaret, three years old: They, thinking that her ...
( Category: History August 15,2017 )
Indian Summer Notebook by Henry Williamson
epub |eng | | Author:Henry Williamson

Eve no gentlier lays her cooling cheek On the burning brow of the sick earth, Sick with death, and sick with birth, Aeon to aeon, in secular fever twirled, Than ...
( Category: Engineering & Transportation August 15,2017 )
From Burma to Myanmar by Lydia Laube
epub |eng | 2015-12-16 | Author:Lydia Laube

12 Pyay I left for the bus station at nine next morning in a taxi. It was a very long ride in dense traffic. The two seats I had bought, ...
( Category: Reference August 15,2017 )
Continuing (The Starlight Chronicles Book 5) by C. S. Johnson
epub |eng | 2016-11-30 | Author:C. S. Johnson [Johnson, C. S.]

☼14☼ Across Dreams I felt better about Stefano when my eyes opened and adjusted to the environment with which I was most familiar. Before, he had been restless and shaking; ...
( Category: Arts & Photography August 15,2017 )
Oswald's Game by Davison Jean
epub |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Davison, Jean [Davison, Jean]

12 … Castro’s Revelations ON Thursday afternoon, September 26, Oswald’s bus crossed the Mexican border at Laredo, Texas. A fellow passenger, an Englishman named John McFarland, recalled that Oswald told ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs August 15,2017 )
Living with a Dead Language by Ann Patty
epub |eng | 2016-05-26 | Author:Ann Patty

We began with Catullus IV, a poem about a boat, fuisse navium celerrimus (once the fastest of ships) that nunc recondita senet quiete (now ages in its retired repose). It ...
( Category: Specific Groups August 15,2017 )
The Book of Proper Names by Amelie Nothomb
epub |eng | | Author:Amelie Nothomb

About the Author Amelie Nothomb’s novels are international bestsellers. Belgian by birth, she lives in Paris. Her novel Fear and Trembling (Griffin) was made into a successful film in France. ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 15,2017 )
Doctorow by E.L. Doctorow
epub |eng | 2017-01-10 | Author:E.L. Doctorow

When Betty told me she would go that night to Walter John Harmon, I didn’t think I reacted. But she looked into my eyes and must have seen something—some slight ...
( Category: Literary August 15,2017 )
A World to Win by Mary Lancaster
epub |eng | 2006-08-15 | Author:Mary Lancaster [Lancaster, Mary]

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN The power of the people, it seemed, was still paramount. Lederer was recalled to Vienna; an enquiry into the incident was opened, and the Cabinet announced a National ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs August 15,2017 )
Words of Mercury by Patrick Leigh Fermor
epub |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:Patrick Leigh Fermor

* I loved all this. I was soon suspiciously expert in all the relevant sociohistorical lore, to which others might give a grosser name. But I would have been genuinely ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides August 15,2017 )
The Writing Life by David Malouf
epub |eng | 2014-08-15 | Author:David Malouf

This final destruction of the world he knew, first the accuracy of his view of it, then the place itself, is where the narrator begins. His world is not resurrected; ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 15,2017 )
The Best American Travel Writing 2016 by Bill Bryson
epub |eng | | Author:Bill Bryson

When the mother of South Korea’s former president Chun Doo Hwan was trying to conceive a child, in the 1920s, she met a wandering monk who told her that she ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 15,2017 )

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