epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-24 | Author:Tahir Shah [Shah, Tahir]

18 Green Hell I do not know why, but the Pradera was supposed to meet us alongside the dance-floor of an Iquitos disco. The nightspot stood precariously at the Amazon’s ...

epub |eng | 1989-01-01 | Author:Bill Bryson [Bryson, Bill]

CHAPTER 16 I HAD ALWAYS thought that New England was nothing but maple trees and white churches and old guys in checkered shirts sitting around iron stoves in country general ...

azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-03 | Author:Caro Feely & Caro

'C'est vrai. But it would be a pity to lose it. C'est très joli.' The botrytis noble rot was not what the average person would call pretty. The grapes were ...

epub |eng | | Author:W Somerset Maugham

XXVI I travelled leisurely down Siam. The country was pleasant, open and smiling, scattered with neat little villages, each surrounded with a fence, and fruit trees and areca palms growing ...

epub |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Ruth Silvestre [Ruth Silvestre]

A few days later I took another look at the decrepit old cupboard which still leaned against the wall in the new room. I knew that English, proprietary brand paint ...

epub |eng | | Author:David Yeadon

Highland Cow “I can’t go totally abstract,” she explained. “I’m not sure I want to. It can get far too personal—too self-focused. What I try to do is use my ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Eric Hazan

This battle is an odd story, and singularly forgotten, apart from the monument to Moncey in the middle of the Place de Clichy, and the tiny Impasse de la Défense. ...

epub |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Ruth Silvestre [Ruth Silvestre]

One morning Matthew came in very excited. ‘You’ll never guess what Philippe and I’ve been doing,’ he cried. ‘Grandpa’s got this old car – ’ ‘Grandpa has nothing but old ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2008-10-27 | Author:Dan White [White, Dan]

* Francis P. Farquhar, History of the Sierra Nevada, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969. * Years later, Muir expressed gratitude that this “horrid guillotine of a thing” didn’t work ...

epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Jessica Pan

MARCH 6 Rachel to Jess Help! Two problems! How the hell do you get glitter out of your eyelashes and how do you get the scent of a gallon of ...

epub |eng | 2013-05-27 | Author:Melanie Jones

'Cor, I'd love to know what that frigid old bat's saying,' whispered Tracey into my ear. 'Actually, for once I'm glad I can't speak the language.' After giving the poor ...

epub |eng | | Author:Paul Theroux

9 “I Must Keep Some Secrets” VIDIA SPOKE about finding me, yet my conceit was that I had discovered him. Both could have been true. Friendship is often a case ...

epub |eng | | Author:Paul Theroux [Theroux, Paul]

Adhere to Marxist Leninism Adhere to the Socialist Road Adhere to Proletarian Dictatorship Adhere to Party Leadership "Do people repeat these things?" I asked a man in Xiamen. I liked ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-20 | Author:David Eimer

Part III YUNNAN – TROUBLE IN PARADISE The term savages, used by so many authors to denote all hill tribes of Indo-China, is very inaccurate and misleading, as many of ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-23 | Author:Marcy Gordon [Gordon, Marcy]

David Farley is the author of the award-winning travel memoir/narrative history, An Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church’s Strangest Relic in Italy’s Oddest Town, and co-editor of Travelers’ Tales ...