epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-07 | Author:William Least Heat-Moon [HEAT-MOON, WILLIAM LEAST]

A military message? Something religious? Masonic? A riddle? A joke? His knowledge of history led Beetham to a different interpretation: the Elizabethan amusement of writing verse in code, often hiding ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 1998-09-21 | Author:Eric Newby [Eric Newby]

The next day dawned, when it did, long after eight o’clock, wet and cold with a very strong wind and snow on the 2000-foot tops of the Caha Mountains. We ...

epub |eng | 1999-09-21 | Author:Eric Newby [Newby, Eric]

* * * * Northern England, vol. Ill, 1970. † Thomas Sharp in the Shell Guide to Northumberland, 1969. ‡ Pevsner says they were built during the reign of Mary ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-02-21 | Author:Eric Newby [Newby, Eric]

The sun was sinking as we floated down towards Singhirampur. It was a calm evening. The only sounds were the melancholy cawings of crows in the distant trees, and the ...

epub |eng | 1994-09-21 | Author:Eric Newby [Eric Newby]

‘Vorrei chiederle un piacere’ (‘I want to ask you a favour’) said a deep voice from behind me which I recognized immediately as being Tranquillo’s. I knew what was coming ...

epub |eng | 1993-09-21 | Author:Eric Newby [Eric Newby]

Way Down the Wakwayowkastic River CANADA, 1969 IN THE AUTUMN OF 1969 I received an invitation from John Power, a writer about the Canadian outdoors, to make a canoe trip ...

epub |eng | | Author:Eric Newby [Eric Newby]

* * * 1 The engravings made from Bartlett’s drawings of Constantinople first appeared in The Beauties of the Bosphorus by Miss Julia Pardoe, published in 1839. Miss Pardoe was ...

epub |eng | 2010-12-07 | Author:Pico Iyer [Iyer, Pico]

AT THE RALLY, as so often in Manila, it was the happiness of the Filipinos that left me saddest. Carefree and irrepressible to the end, they reminded me finally of ...

azw3, mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-06-23 | Author:Tim Severin

9 ISLAND OF SMITHS One day, said the Navigatio, Saint Brendan and his crew found themselves being blown by a southerly wind toward a stony island “very rough, rocky and ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Grindrod, John [John Grindrod]

It was like the paperless office in reverse, the computer not just generating paper but ingesting it too. I was reminded of the punch-cards Alan Turing’s crypto-analysts were using for ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sainath, P [Sainath, P]

Crime & No Punishment Targeting the poor Going to court in some parts of rural India can be quite an experience. Many dalits and adivasis have found it so. Often, ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 1984-08-23 | Author:Eric Newby [Eric Newby]

From Alexandria Troas we continued southwards along the Aegean shores of the Mediterranean. Great tracts of the coast of Turkey between the Dardanelles and Antalya on the southern Mediterranean coast ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Paul Theroux [Theroux, Paul]

There is a bad dream which everyone suffers. It takes place in a large overbright room, filled with people going, "Quack! Quack!" You know every person in the room, and ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-03-20 | Author:Paul Theroux [Theroux, Paul]

John Reiss was a tall stout mortician with a pink complexion and a friendly manner. His wife had said, 'He's wonderful with bereaved relatives - he just calms them down, ...

epub |eng | 2012-05-17 | Author:Paul Theroux [Theroux, Paul]

“William Blake. That kind of thing?” “I believe that, too.” “I speak French,” Anne said. “In France I was taken to be a French person. That’s how good my French ...