Travel
epub |eng | 1970-12-31 | Author:Richard Maury

Quite suddenly the bell sounds – and he awakes. Midnight already! Half asleep, he feels for the bell-clapper over the bunk, striking an answer before turning up the wick and ...
( Category: Travel December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 1999-12-31 | Author:Tarquin Hall

Had the sacrifice been worth it, I asked. “Oh, don’t know about sacrifice,” he replied, trying to make light of it. “Did what we had to do, really. But of ...
( Category: General December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2001-12-31 | Author:Will Randall

Wuni, leaning heavily on his stick, his pipe clenched firmly between his teeth, looked up at me as I studied it. “Mr Wu. He can help you but he won’t ...
( Category: Travel December 8,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2002-12-31 | Author:Richard Grant

We don’t know the name of Walker’s wife, and we can only speculate in the broadest terms about their marriage. From her perspective, a white chieftain trader like Joe Walker ...
( Category: Travel December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-12-31 | Author:Chris Stewart

9 Casa & Campo Some years later I found myself reflecting on Mourad’s reaction to our home, after a phonecall from one Eduardo Mencos. El Valero had looked depressingly like ...
( Category: Travel December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-12-31 | Author:Will Randall

8 Standard One Now with my own accommodation and in possession of a regal set of wheels, I concentrated on my day-to-day activities at the school. Pleasingly, the children took ...
( Category: Travel December 8,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2004-12-31 | Author:Jeremy Clarkson

Flying Scotsman The Flying Scotsman is exquisite to behold, partly because he's so nicely balanced and partly because he seems to shout I AM VERY POWERFUL. Trainspotters. You still see ...
( Category: Travel December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2003-12-31 | Author:Will Randall

10 Let’s Go Fly a Kite Near the Osho Commune, in the small parade of shops, was a bookseller specialising in ‘Mystical and the Spiritual Books’. Owned, somewhat surprisingly, in ...
( Category: General December 8,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-12-31 | Author:Susie Kelly

Every ten years the dam is drained so that its integrity can be inspected. When this was done in May 2000, the surviving original villagers returned to the remains of ...
( Category: Travel December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Thom Wheeler

8 Heartlands “Space, in the end, may be all you remember of Novosibirsk.” COLIN THUBRON The morning after our arrival in Novosibirsk we headed for breakfast in an institutional Soviet-style ...
( Category: General December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-11 | Author:Lynne Martin

Chapter 9 Britain “No, no, no—I’m NOT doing it. I don’t care what she says, it isn’t happening!” Tim shouted as he banged his hands on the steering wheel. He ...
( Category: Travel December 3,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robin Ratchford

Dreams of Rain Barren, brown, dry: an inhospitable landscape of the sort that appears in science-fiction films rose before us, its jagged mountains uninviting and hinting at danger. Only the ...
( Category: Travel December 3,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Patrick Leigh Fermor

“Really!” I can hear some Athenian exclaim at this point. “Are we to stop progress for the sake of an occasional eccentric traveller? Undo the work of a hundred-and-fifty years? ...
( Category: General November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2003-11-23 | Author:Chris Hatherly

Riding the Taiga Bratsk – Ulan Ude Mid-Summer 2000 ——— Tim We drifted into the city of Bratsk amid haphazard traffic of Landcruisers, Ladas and trucks; they swerved about trying ...
( Category: Siberia November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Keahey

Southern Basilicata/southern Puglia Chapter 11 Sunlight on Old Stones I arrived about midday. Taranto is a strange and wonderful city high on the inside of Italy’s heel. From the train ...
( Category: General November 24,2014 )