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Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb?: A Tour of Presidential Gravesites by Brian Lamb; C-Span
mobi |eng | 2010-02-09 | Author:Brian Lamb; C-Span

Teddy Roosevelt’s own words on a plaque near his grave Returning to the United States in 1910, Roosevelt became convinced that President Taft had shifted too far to the right. ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time by Jeff Deck; Benjamin D. Herson
mobi |eng | 2010-08-03 | Author:Jeff Deck; Benjamin D. Herson

Then we stopped. LONLEY? asked the chalkboard. YOU GOT A FRIEND IN BOOZE. Josh was the one who’d pointed out the sign. We peered at the specimen, and I felt ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2014 )
The Best American Travel Writing 2011 by Sloane Crosley; Jason Wilson
mobi |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Sloane Crosley; Jason Wilson

Aside from three-card monte and Wall Street, Manhattan doesn't have much in the way of gambling. New Yorkers travel south to Atlantic City, or up to Connecticut, to gamble. Long ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2014 )
Running Dry by Jonathan Waterman
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Jonathan Waterman

The next day, bobbing in a boat next to the “Keep Out” signs 200 yards upstream of the dam, I’m talking with the director of the Glen Canyon Institute (GCI), ...
( Category: Women in History March 25,2014 )
Notes From the Hard Shoulder by James May
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:James May

THE RANGE ROVER OF OUTSTANDING NATURAL BEAUTY Today, from the window of my office, I have an uninterrupted view of my 1992 Range Rover Vogue SE. I think it may ...
( Category: Performing Arts March 25,2014 )
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Byson
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Bill Byson

Notes from a Small Island CHAPTER FIFTEEN I WENT TO RETFORD. I CAN'T EXPLAIN IT. THROUGH MY MORNING ablutions, the gentle removal of the tissues from my swollen nostrils, through ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 25,2014 )
Falling Off the Map by Pico Iyer
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-09 | Author:Pico Iyer

And so, in time, I came to settle into the rhythms of this silent country, to come to know its patterns so well that the days began to pick up ...
( Category: Humor March 25,2014 )
Do Travel Writers Go to Hell? by Thomas Kohnstamm
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-04-22 | Author:Thomas Kohnstamm

After a few minutes of the novela, a solid Brazilian melodrama of tears, betrayal, unrequited love, and product placement, Beatriz leads me outside and through a narrow alleyway that runs ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 25,2014 )
City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:John Berendt

24 April 1988 Dear [Sir], I wish to inform you that it is my firm intention to dissolve the “Ezra Pound Foundation.” I have revoked the donation of my house ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 25,2014 )
Naked in Dangerous Places by Cash Peters
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Cash Peters

The show premiered four weeks later. On my birthday, as a matter of fact, June 6. A coincidence everyone was quick to label a lucky omen. It's hard to encapsulate ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
Lost and Found in Russia by Susan Richards
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-07 | Author:Susan Richards

TICKET TO THE END OF THE EARTH This morning I finally heard from Vera. As soon as I reached Novosibirsk, I sent her a telegram. I had not rated my ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 25,2014 )
The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson
mobi, epub |es | 2010-06-28 | Author:Bill Bryson

* * * SIXTEEN I HAD ALWAYS thought that New England was nothing but maple trees and white churches and old guys in checkered shirts sitting around iron stoves in ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 25,2014 )
Made in America by Bill Bryson
mobi, epub, azw3 |pt | 2012-06-23 | Author:Bill Bryson

( Category: Linguistics March 25,2014 )
Beyond the Sky and the Earth by Jamie Zeppa
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-13 | Author:Jamie Zeppa

It is too late for them to go home after, so they spend the night, sleeping on mats and quilts on the floor, covered with blankets and kiras and towels. ...
( Category: Dalai Lama March 25,2014 )
Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea by Steven Callahan
mobi, epub |eng | 1986-01-02 | Author:Steven Callahan

The Tupperware box is twice as effective as a rain collector when I rig it up on top of the raft. The bridle that secures it to Ducky's stern can ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 25,2014 )

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