Travel Writing Reference
mobi, epub |eng | 1996-01-01 | Author:Jonathan Raban

The Wollastons were bent on self-sufficiency, on making the homestead pay. Many, if not most, of their neighbors were subsidizing their farms by taking outside jobs. They taught school, or ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-01-02 | Author:Nathaniel Philbrick

The Whisper of Necessity BEFORE THEY LEFT Henderson Island, Chase loaded a flat stone and an armful of firewood into each boat. That first evening back on the water, as ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Alexandra Fuller

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 March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1975-01-02 | Author:V. S. Naipaul

Five of them were afterwards burnt with small fire, or rather, roasted, and continually nipped with pincers; and another stood on the wood-heap and died at once. After this the ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-31 | Author:Spalding, Lavinia [Spalding, Lavinia]

• Plenty of us keep dream logs in our everyday lives, but at junctures of growth, movement, and transition, dreams are strongest and most telling. Observe how your dreams differ ...
( Category: Travel Writing Reference March 25,2014 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )