Travel Writing Reference
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Matthiessen

6 Beyond Black Drunken River WITH ITS MUD Streets, thatch roofs, and raffish waterfront, and its barefoot Shipibos with their nose ornaments and bright clothing, the Peruvian river town of ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays April 9,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-04-06 | Author:Nando Parrado [Parrado, Nando]

ON THE MORNING of November 15, Numa, Roberto, Tintin, and I stood outside the fuselage, looking down the valley that sloped off to the east ready to begin our escape. ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing April 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-01 | Author:Barski, Conrad [Conrad Barski M.D.]

Note Using with-output-to-string runs counter to the tenets of functional programming (discussed in Chapter 14). Some Lispers consider this function (and similar functions that intercept input or output intended for ...
( Category: Game Programming March 31,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1982-12-15 | Author:Michael Ondaatje [Ondaatje, Michael]

THE PRODIGAL HARBOUR I arrived in a plane but love the harbour. Dusk. And the turning on of electricity in ships, portholes of moon, the blue glide of a tug, ...
( Category: Biographical March 29,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Eric Newby [Eric Newby]

* * * 1. The American traveller Charles Masson. Narrative of Various Journeys, etc., London, 1842. 2. Pronounced oog not ugh. 3. This little-known campaign against the Safi tribes of ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf | | 2008-04-01 | Author:George Motz [Motz, George]

DONOVAN’S PUB 5724 ROOSEVELT AVE | FLUSHING, NY 11377 718-429-9339 | OPEN DAILY 11 AM–11 PM Regulars, God bless ’em, show up at this Woodside, Queens, Irish pub at 11 ...
( Category: Essays March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-03-14 | Author:Frances Mayes [Mayes, Frances]

Standing in front of 8, rue de Colette (formerly rue de l’Hospice), with her inspired, passionate descriptions in mind, I confront a tall dun-colored house with white shutters. It looks ...
( Category: Memoirs March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-08 | Author:Bill Bryson [Bryson, Bill]

A REAL CLIFFHANGER Tristram Hunt on the north Devon cliffs FAR REMOVED FROM THE deep England of the South Downs landscape or Chiltern Hundreds hamlets, stand the high cliffs of ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2013-03-26 | Author:Patrick Smith

That last one sounds like a chapter from a fantasy novel. Head instead to La Layal, a great little Lebanese place up the street, where, once you get past the ...
( Category: Commercial March 27,2014 )
epub, azw |eng | | Author:Mark Twain

CHAPTER XXXII. Home, again! For the first time, in many weeks, the ship's entire family met and shook hands on the quarter-deck. They had gathered from many points of the ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Henry James

She has meanwhile probably her hours of amazement at the size of her windfall; she cannot quite live without wonder at the oddity of her so "sleeping" partner, the strange ...
( Category: Anthologies March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1969-01-01 | Author:Patricia Highsmith [Highsmith, Patricia]

Jensen paused for a swig from the bottle. ‘Oh, first somebody would cover it up to hide it. Then a couple of Arabs would haul it away on a donkey, ...
( Category: Psychological Thrillers March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-12 | Author:Patrick O'Brian [O'Brian, Patrick]

city, gazing at the Mahrattas, Bengalis, Rajputs, Persians, Sikhs, Malays, Siamese, Javans, Philippinoes, Khirgiz, Ethiopians, Parsees, Baghdad Jews, Sinhalese, Tibetans, they gazed back at him, when they were not otherwise ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1980-10-01 | Author:Louis L'Amour [L'Amour, Louis]

AND PROUDLY DIE * * * In 1983 dad and I took an afternoon off, he from writing and I from editing a student film, and drove down to San ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-19 | Author:Patrick O'Brian [O'Brian, Patrick]

Mrs Wogan was as who should say alone, since she did not count the occasional presence of her slaves, and Michael had taken Caroline to see her grandfather. She had, ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )