Travel Writing Reference
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-07-21 | Author:Robert M. Pirsig [Pirsig, Robert M.]

19 A mat of sunlit pine needles by my face slowly tells me where I am and helps dispel a dream. In the dream I was standing in a white-painted ...
( Category: Philosophy March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:Wilfred Thesiger

9. From Salala to Mukalla A leisurely journey with the Rashid to Mukalla completes my survey of this part of Arabia. I stayed at Salala for a week. I was ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 26,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-01 | Author:Paul Theroux

John Muir: "Fond of Everything That Was Wild" LATE IN HIS life, when he was seventy-five and had only a year more to live, John Muir, one of the greatest ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-08-15 | Author:Rolf Potts

VAGABONDING VOICES I go to places within a country for the most ridiculous reasons - it may just have an interesting name or be close to a mountain with an ...
( Category: General Travel Reference March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-12-24 | Author:Rolf Potts

BARGAINING Outside of the industrialized world, fixed prices are used primarily in restaurants and on buses. Nearly every other product and service on the planet (from hotels to souvenirs to ...
( Category: General Travel Reference March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-05-08 | Author:Chris Stewart

BUILDING THE HOUSE FOR SOME MONTHS A STOCKPILE OF CHESTNUT ROOF-BEAMS had lain under a tarpaulin on a piece of flat land behind the house. It was a reminder to ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1983-01-01 | Author:Colin Thubron

5. On The Baltic IN EARLY SEPTEMBER I drove west from Leningrad towards those troubled Baltic states—Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania—whose tragedy has been their tiny size, squeezed as they are between ...
( Category: General Russia Travel Guides March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1989-01-01 | Author:Colin Thubron

In the black silence, while I lie exhausted without sleep, and there is nothing more to do, the Sogdian trader stirs, closer in times of stress. What about those you ...
( Category: Asia March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Colin Thubron

A mile from my camp, an isolated hill rises like a termites’ nest. Its crags are disintegrating into scree, but around its crest the monastery of Chiu, ‘the Little Bird’, ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Paul Theroux

The Chinese flock to Kunming to gape at the colorful natives—twenty-three separate minorities, all gaily dressed in handsomely stitched skirts and quilted jackets, boots and headdresses. They come from the ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-07 | Author:Chris Stewart

NIGHT BEGAN TO FALL and the pale cliffs of the Kent coast were replaced by distant lines of light. With the deepening of the darkness the sea, too, vanished, and ...
( Category: Sailing March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-17 | Author:David Byrne

Of course, beginning with Marcos’s 1969 reelection campaign and then when martial law was declared in 1972 the scales began to tip, and the chicanery, censorship, human-rights abuses, murder, corruption, ...
( Category: Cycling March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-05-12 | Author:Redmond O'Hanlon

SOMEONE TURNED the light on; Sean had turned the light on: “Up ye get, boys! Ye’ve had a whole eight hours! And the storm’s gone—there’s yer heavy swell up there ...
( Category: Oceanography March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2006-04-11 | Author:Margaret Mittelbach; Michael Crewdson; Alexis Rockman

After what seemed like hours of silence (but was actually exactly twenty-three minutes), a voice suddenly rose from the darkness. “I wasn't really into those beets on the sandwiches,” Chris ...
( Category: Wildlife March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1991-01-02 | Author:Paul Theroux

Happy Little Llanelli LLANELLI HAD LOOKED PROMISING ON THE MAP. IT WAS IN the southwest corner of Dyfed, on the estuary of the Loughor River. I walked from the station ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )