Travel Writing Reference
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Conor Grennan

Part IV INTO THE MOUNTAINS November 2006-December 2006 Five Farid and I both lived in Kathmandu now. I had my apartment, and Farid had taken a small room—a former pantry, ...
( Category: Child Abuse March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-20 | Author:Patricia Highsmith

14 IT was Friday, July 28th, before they got back to Hammamet. They had visited the city of Medinine and the island of Djerba. They had roughed it in a ...
( Category: Psychological Thrillers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Peter Nichols

Sailing Route Across the Indain Ocean Two thousand miles to the east – 1,100 miles the other side of Cape Town, well into the Indian Ocean – Bernard Moitessier was ...
( Category: Narratives March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1979-04-30 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SIX It was with a feeling not unlike dread that Stephen followed Mrs Wogan into Franchon's hotel. The people behind the desk were talking French and this, together with ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1973-05-31 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER EIGHT The Surprise lay at single anchor, well out in the channel: the wind was fair, the tide near the height of flood, and her captain stood at the ...
( Category: Sea Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1980-11-08 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER EIGHT It was a black night for the squadron when the Ariel slipped her moorings and stood out into the rain-swept midnight sea, for she carried with her most ...
( Category: Sea Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-06-05 | Author:David Parlett

Game Two play up to 500 points, three to 750 or 1000, four to 1000 or 1500. Belote Marseillaise (á la Découverte) (2p, 32c) Deal sixteen cards each in eight ...
( Category: Card Games March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Sloane Crosley

AS TIME PASSED AND MORE OF OUR PEERS JOINED Zooey in the Active Uterus Club, I became less exempt from her wrath. Zooey’s prior embarrassment had been alleviated by the ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Jonathan Raban

In open water now, I killed the engine, unfurled the genoa, and let the boat coast quietly on the breeze while I tried to raise a marine operator on the ...
( Category: Sailing March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-07 | Author:Neil Ansell

6. The Bird in the Bush The goshawks caught me unawares. So far as I knew they had died out in Britain decades ago, and their stealthy return had passed ...
( Category: Ecology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Mark Kurlansky

Official portrait from the swearing in of Aguirre as lehendakari. The oath, in Euskera, is printed on the portrait. (Sabino Arana Foundation, Bilbao) Children who grew up in the 1930s ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-06-03 | Author:Simon Winchester

The British had few early doubts about the purpose behind the annexation of Hong Kong. The island had been placed there for the exclusive convenience of the British Empire, and ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-20 | Author:Tony Judt

Back in 1970 the École boasted quite a few self-styled “Maoists.” One of them, a talented mathematician, took pains to explain to me why the great Bibliothèque des Lettres should ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-12 | Author:Colin Thubron

Chapter 8 Tashkent A familiar Soviet gloom permeated Samarkand’s railway station. Its gangways clanged to the trudge of labourers, and the air stank with diesel and steam spurting from vents ...
( Category: General Asia Travel Books March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Tony Horwitz

FROM HIS OLIVE SKIN and unusual surname, I’d guessed that the pharmacist Joe Gerache was of southern European extraction. But when I arrived at his home in suburban Vicksburg, I ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )