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Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North (Penguin Classics) by Ibn Fadlan
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-07-26 | Author:Ibn Fadlan [Fadlan, Ibn]

4. Zuhrī on Viking ships c. 1160 Abū ‘Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Zuhrī (d. between 1154 and 1161) was an Andalusian cosmographer about whom almost nothing is known. ...
( Category: Travel Writing September 24,2017 )
The Modern Library by Colm Toibin & Carmen Callil
mobi |eng | 2011-06-17 | Author:Colm Toibin & Carmen Callil [Toibin, Colm]

David Lodge was born in London. He has worked for many years as an academic. His comic gifts are apparent in early novels such as The British Museum is Falling ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 23,2017 )
Travel Pictures by Heinrich Heine
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-01-09 | Author:Heinrich Heine

7. What a beating is we already know, but nobody has yet established what love is. A few natural philosophers have maintained it’s a kind of electricity. That is possible, ...
( Category: Poetry September 22,2017 )
River-Horse by William Least Heat-Moon
epub |eng | | Author:William Least Heat-Moon

These are the best disposed Sioux who rove on the banks of the Missouri, and these even will not suffer any trader to ascend the river if they can possibly ...
( Category: Travel Writing September 22,2017 )
Andalus: Unlocking the Secrets of Moorish Spain by Jason Webster
epub |eng | 2010-08-02 | Author:Jason Webster [Webster, Jason]

SEVILLE ‘You sure your friend’s OK? He’s been gone a while.’ I turned my head away from the stage and looked back through the cigarette and hashish smoke in the ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides September 22,2017 )
Mama Makes Up Her Mind by Bailey White
epub |eng | | Author:Bailey White

The Lips of a Stranger We should have known things were not going well when Mama found a tick doing isometrics under her panty hose. Nothing along the tick’s trudge ...
( Category: Humor September 22,2017 )
Marooned by Phil Freeman
epub |eng | 2012-02-28 | Author:Phil Freeman

Warwick occasionally deploys some uncharacteristically bluesy chops here—check the delivery of “way to do”—as though hoping to infuse the song with a subtlety it would prefer to resist. But the ...
( Category: Music September 22,2017 )
Ghostwriting by Andrew Crofts
epub |eng | 2009-09-22 | Author:Andrew Crofts

This synopsis was then followed by a chapter breakdown. Although the eventual order of the chapters was different when we actually came to write the book, the essence was the ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides September 22,2017 )
Depraved English by Peter Novobatzky
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Novobatzky

lantrify /LANT rif eye/ v To moisten with urine. A unique and mystifying word. How many things are there that get moistened with urine routinely enough to have necessitated a ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar September 22,2017 )
The Triumph of Narrative by Robert Fulford
epub |eng | 1999-11-01 | Author:Robert Fulford

IV THE CRACKED MIRROR OF MODERNITY ANYONE’S PERSONAL HISTORY as a reader contains certain moments that in retrospect feel like beginnings, openings. When I was twelve or thirteen years old, ...
( Category: Encyclopedias & Subject Guides September 22,2017 )
Three Men in a Raft by Ben Kozel
epub |eng | 2002-09-22 | Author:Ben Kozel

We were on the lookout for the first of two sizeable tributaries that would, between them, double the volume of the Apurimac in the space of 20 kilometres. On a ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides September 22,2017 )
MFA vs NYC by Chad Harbach
epub |eng | | Author:Chad Harbach

Publicity When my book came out, Norton didn’t really send me on a tour, but I wanted to do one, so I put a lot of things together myself, and ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence September 22,2017 )
Sell Your Book Like Wildfire: The Writer's Guide to Marketing and Publicity by Rob Eagar
mobi |eng | 2012-05-09 | Author:Rob Eagar [Eagar, Rob]

1. Focus on quantity over quality When it comes to Amazon customer reviews for your book, keep in mind that quantity trumps quality, regardless if most reviews are positive or ...
( Category: Marketing & Sales September 22,2017 )
Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success by K.M. Weiland
mobi |eng | 2013-11-28 | Author:K.M. Weiland [Weiland, K.M.]

What is he wrong about in the beginning? He thinks the best way to avoid hurting people is to avoid responsibility. He thinks the only way to feel alive is ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides September 22,2017 )
Dialogue Secrets (Screenwriting Blue Books) by Martell William C
epub |eng | 2011-10-28 | Author:Martell, William C. [Martell, William C.]

Trying to fix a bad line – sometimes a writer will try to make a defective line work by adding a parenthetical to explain what they meant to say. The ...
( Category: Movies September 20,2017 )

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