Travel Writing Reference
epub |eng | 2019-11-18 | Author:Pollen

You go through an airlock, with sheets of plastic hanging down to stop the bats from getting out, and walk into a giant cave as high and wide as a ...
( Category: Diseases November 19,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-08 | Author:Tom Cox [Cox, Tom]

There were times in late 2017 and early 2018, on one of the less brutal days, when I would be driving across the Peak District – a notably high, desolate ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers November 19,2019 )
epub | | | Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

Chapter III above.] [Note 34: _Robert Hunter, Sheriff of Dumbarton_. Hunter recognised the genius in Stevenson long before the latter became known to the world, and gave him much friendly ...
( Category: Essays August 7,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2009-09-29 | Author:Brian Patrick O'Donoghue

“Good to see you so upbeat,” said race Judge Bill Bartlett. “Why not,” I said. “This is fun, and it sure beats working. “I’m not staying long,” I added, grinning ...
( Category: Iditarod & Dog-Sledding October 30,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:W. Somerset Maugham

XI * George Allerton had changed since he left England. The flesh had fallen away from his bones, and his face was sallow. He had not stood the climate well. ...
( Category: Essays October 27,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Benjamin Law [Law, Benjamin; Allbright, Aaron]

Ayaka Ichinose responded to my interview request pretty quickly. Perhaps she needed any publicity she could get. If Ayaka had a business card, it would have said something like ‘model/actress/writer’ ...
( Category: LGBT August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-18 | Author:Elizabeth Gilbert [Gilbert, Elizabeth]

54 This morning, I overslept. Which is to say—sloth that I am, I dozed until the ungodly hour of 4:15 AM. I woke up only minutes before the Gurugita was ...
( Category: Women June 8,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Anthony Bourdain

The Night Porter I wish I didn't need a night porter. But I do. Somebody has to clean the restaurant after service, take out the garbage, clean and scrub the ...
( Category: Wine June 7,2017 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Heinrich Harrer

9 Asylum Granted Many people came to visit us. Tibetans journeyed from far and wide to Lhasa to attend the New Year Festival, among them people whom we had got ...
( Category: China June 7,2017 )
epub | | 2006-06-06 | Author:Tony Hawks

≡ A Peruvian dice game for all the family, but mainly the immature ones. Kevin had come back to the house that he’d first seen on our abortive skiing weekend. ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers June 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-10 | Author:Alexandra Fuller [Fuller, Alexandra]

IT WAS ONLY AFTER we had crossed the border from Zambia into Zimbabwe that K remembered that he still had his revolver with him. "Shit," he laughed, rooting around in ...
( Category: Memoirs June 7,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-11-20 | Author:Henry David Thoreau [Thoreau, Henry David]

the shining torch of the sun fell into the ocean. * * * VIII THE HIGHLAND LIGHT This light-house, known to mariners as the Cape Cod or Highland Light, is ...
( Category: United States June 7,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Grant

MARIAH WOULDN’T DRIVE after a single drink, so if we went for an evening out, I was usually the designated driver, although not always entirely sober. Driving fifty miles home ...
( Category: Human Geography June 2,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Somerville

30 July 1975. ‘Morning, lads,’ said Mr Morris to Dad and me as he brought our bacon and eggs into the dining room at Sunnyside. He jerked his thumb in ...
( Category: Running & Jogging May 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-04-23 | Author:Bruce Chatwin [Bruce Chatwin]

29 TITUS TJILKAMATA, THE man Arkady had come to see, lived about twenty-five miles south-west of Cullen settlement, in a shanty beside a soakage. Apparently he was in such a ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand May 21,2017 )