Travel Writing Reference
epub |eng | 2020-07-15 | Author:Rick Steves
Rome’s Pantheon As they have been for centuries, Rome’s squares are popular hangouts any time of day. Veering away from the busy pedestrian boulevard, I come upon Fausto, a mad ...
( Category:
General France Travel Guides
July 25,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-10-31 | Author:M. F. K. Fisher & Aileen Ah-Tye [Fisher, M. F. K.]
PLATE TWENTY — Hôtel de Gaillard d’Agoult At street level, the tone of the Cours has changed almost completely since it was first built as an aristocratic promenade . . ...
( Category:
Wine
July 25,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-02-20 | Author:Ehrlich, Gretel [Ehrlich, Gretel]
What we may miss in human interaction here we make up for by rubbing elbows with wild animals. Their florid, temperamental lives parallel ours, as do their imperfect societies. They ...
( Category:
Nature Writing & Essays
July 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-09 | Author:Tony Perrottet [Perrottet, Tony]
I did attend the final performance that night, and I wasn’t even bothered by the bumblebee costumes or dancing gendarmes. It was a full moon, and Maxim champagne was flowing ...
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Historical Study & Educational Resources
July 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-14 | Author:John Rasmus [Rasmus, John]
THE NEXT MORNING, I hear news of a Cessna that has arrived in Bunia and is bound for Entebbe, Uganda. I have no business in Uganda, and Entebbe is a ...
( Category:
Mountain Climbing
July 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:Colin Fletcher [Fletcher, Colin]
Above Trin-Alcove Bend. The panorama “rock entire.” “Only the recessed river, far below, winding brown and green-fringed, seemed alive—and also a giver of life.” Their advocates see—or pretend to see—such ...
( Category:
Rivers
July 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-29 | Author:Holly Fitzgerald [Fitzgerald, Holly]
Chapter 19 Little Balsa Waves smashed over the little balsa, slapping our thighs and stomachs. “God Almighty!” Fitz yelled. “We can’t go back! Not after all this!” My hands locked ...
( Category:
Memoirs
July 21,2020 )
mobi |eng | 1995-06-15 | Author:Lee H. Whittlesey
NPS investigation into Burris Wollsieffer drowning on Yellowstone Lake, which occurred July 18, 1973, showing weight and gear distribution in canoe (NPS photo #29084, YNP Archives) The two scout leaders ...
( Category:
Wildlife
July 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2004-12-02 | Author:Pausanias
This was the inscription in the days before Sulla’s men took away the shields from the colonnade of Zeus of Freedom among the loot of Athens. [4] And now at ...
( Category:
Social Sciences
July 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:Frances Mayes
* * * TABITHA, STORYBOOK CAT, we leave behind. She comes to the car as we pack to leave. Let me not anthropomorphize, though I could. Just to say, she ...
( Category:
Women
July 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-11 | Author:Jennifer Baggett & Holly C. Corbett & Amanda Pressner
Amanda and Jen sat next to me on my spartan twin bed inside the dorm. Their stuffed backpacks leaned against the wall beside us, an unwelcome reminder that they’d soon ...
( Category:
Women
July 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-26 | Author:Ibn Fadlan
4. Zuhrī on Viking ships c. 1160 Abū ‘Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Zuhrī (d. between 1154 and 1161) was an Andalusian cosmographer about whom almost nothing is known. ...
( Category:
Anthologies
July 17,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-10-27 | Author:Sparks, Nicholas
Chapter 12 Angkor, Cambodia February 4-5 The temples at Angkor, Cambodia-an area encompassing nearly 120 square miles-were built from A.D. 879 to 1191 when the Khmer empire was at its ...
( Category:
Authors
July 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-27 | Author:John Mandeville
Next to Chaldea is the land of Amazoun [the Amazons], which we call the Maiden Land or the Land of Women; no man lives there, only women. This is not ...
( Category:
Medieval
July 16,2020 )
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