Travel Writing Reference
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Peter Matthiessen [Matthiessen, Peter]

Toward midmorning, Jonah and I head west across the Garamba River, on a four-hundred-mile flight to Bangassou, in the Central African Republic. We have left the rivers that flow toward ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Steven Callahan [Callahan, Steven]

After a few minutes, the fire inside me subsides. I set about the endless, heavy work of bailing and wringing things out. Perhaps when I get back I will have ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:W. G. Sebald [Sebald, W. G.]

It was as if I had been walking for hours before the tiled roofs of houses and the crest of a wooded hill gradually became defined. The Dunwich of the ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-21 | Author:Gates, Moses [Gates, Moses]

ABANDONED MANSION. You would think a shantytown in the concrete yard of a half-decomposed building would be a residence of last resort. But it turns out it’s not. I learn ...
( Category: Social Scientists & Psychologists March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-02-25 | Author:Qanta Ahmed

WAHABI WRATH EVERYONE STOPPED EATING. THE AIR was pregnant with fear. Across from me, I watched Alon, a visiting professor from Johns Hopkins, turn sallow as all color drained from ...
( Category: Women in Islam March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1973-01-01 | Author:Henry de Monfreid [Monfreid, Henry de]

TWENTY-THREE The Hiding-Place At dawn the white lights of Suez faded before the golden glory of the sun, and the town suddenly appeared out of the desert in dazzling clearness. ...
( Category: Great Britain March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-10-29 | Author:William Least Heat-Moon [Heat-Moon, William Least]

The Spook Light Roads in northeast Oklahoma. I read again the investigations based on mensuration and found them making new sense. When reporter Graham asked an engineer, who claimed he ...
( Category: Memoirs March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-10-28 | Author:William Least Heat-Moon [HEAT-MOON, WILLIAM LEAST]

The Spook Light Roads in northeast Oklahoma. I read again the investigations based on mensuration and found them making new sense. When reporter Graham asked an engineer, who claimed he ...
( Category: Memoirs March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Beryl Markham [Markham, Beryl]

XIII Na Kupa Hati M’zuri THE RED-JAWED RUSSIAN SQUINTS over his glass of vodka, swallows, and snorts from the bottom of his belly. ‘Leopard?’ he says. ‘Pah! I have fought ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-30 | Author:Thor Heyerdahl [Heyerdahl, Thor]

Hold on, Haugland! If the intervals between the waves were too short, water often came on board from astern, and the helmsman had a hard job to prevent himself from ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-30 | Author:Claire Fontaine [Fontaine, Claire]

CHAPTER NINE Avignon Pentimento Def: A visible trace of earlier painting beneath a layer, or layers, of paint on a canvas. From Italian, literally “repentant.” If happiness were a landscape, ...
( Category: Parenting Girls March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-29 | Author:E.B. White [White, E.B.]

The Consolidated Edison Company says there are eight million people in the five boroughs of New York, and the company is in a position to know. Of these eight million, ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-08-02 | Author:Ernesto Che Guevara [Guevara, Ernesto Che]

*Spanish-speaking Latin Americans, often used to refer to Indians who adopt Spanish ways. *The Inca Garcilaso, son of an Inca princess and a conquistador, was one of the chroniclers of ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2008-04-28 | Author:Louis L'Amour

Often I am asked if any writer ever helped or advised me. None did. However, I was not asking for help either, and I do not believe one should. If ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
epub, azw |eng | | Author:Mark Twain

CHAPTER XXXII [The Jungfrau, the Bride, and the Piano] We located ourselves at the Jungfrau Hotel, one of those huge establishments which the needs of modern travel have created in ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )