Writing, Research & Publishing Guides
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Stephen Fry In America

Well-known residents and natives: Herbert Hoover (31st President), Mamie Eisenhower, ‘Buffalo’ Bill Cody, Grant ‘American Gothic’ Wood, Meredith ‘Music Man’ Wilson, Bix Beiderbecke, Bill Bryson, Johnny Carson, George ‘Superman’ Reeves, ...
( Category: Travel Writing October 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2005-06-02 | Author:Moore, Tim [Tim Moore]

Ten The clouds were still wisping past the moon as I buckled the saddle, frogmarched from slumber by swishes and shuffles and the slam of the big front door. When ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides October 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 1979-01-02 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson [Thompson, Hunter S.]

PRESIDENT ADMITS WITHHOLDING DATA TAPES SHOW HE APPROVED COVER-UP Every half-hour on the half-hour, WXRA -- the truckers' station over in Alexandria -- keeps babbling more and more hideous news ...
( Category: Americas October 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 1982-01-02 | Author:Heat-Moon, William Least [Heat-Moon, William Least]

Money half gone, I’d come up with a bit of epistemological small change. Not knowing what else to do, I drove off westward. The highway rolled out of the mountains ...
( Category: Travel Writing October 25,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Otto Penzler [Penzler, Otto]

One of the questions I’m asked most frequently is what led me to make Milo homosexual. The answer is simple: the quest for something new and interesting and original. And ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-20 | Author:Sarah Stodola [Stodola, Sarah]

With its frank tone and measured upfront reporting of personal troubles, the passage is a clear echo of Burroughs’s opening for Junky: My first experience with junk was during the ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides October 24,2017 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2012-03-18 | Author:Peter Mayle [Mayle, Peter]

One: The Arrival One must always arrive as conspicuously as possible, preferably on the back of a crimson Kawasaki 750 motorcycle driven by a young man in head-to-toe black leather ...
( Category: Travel Writing October 24,2017 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2012-05-22 | Author:Andrew Blackwell

Bravo Watch was quiet that night. There were rumors that Mary was heartbroken to have turned back, that she considered it a major blow to Project Kaisei. It was impossible ...
( Category: Travel Writing October 24,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Darwin

September 13th.—We left the baths of Cauquenes, and, rejoining the main road, slept at the Rio Claro. From this place we rode to the town of San Fernando. Before arriving ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology October 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Stephen Fry [Fry, Stephen]

* * * IOWA KEY FACTS Abbreviation: IA Nickname: The Hawkeye State, the Tall Corn State Capital: Des Moines Flower: Wild Rose Tree: Oak Bird: Eastern Goldfinch Rock: Geode Motto: ...
( Category: Travel Writing October 24,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-03-04 | Author:Chuck Palahniuk [Palahniuk, Chuck]

(a postcard from 1991) When I first got beat up, Gina asked if any of the attackers was named David. She was blaming everything on what she called "the Curse ...
( Category: Americas October 24,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-05-11 | Author:Jennifer Baggett; Amanda Pressner; Holly C. Corbett

Amanda and Jen sat next to me on my spartan twin bed inside the dorm. Their stuffed backpacks leaned against the wall beside us, an unwelcome reminder that they’d soon ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides October 24,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Caroline Moorehead

* * * For many months now, all through the summer and autumn of 1944, the war correspondents had been hearing about the concentration camps. Among the refugees trudging west ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides October 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-23 | Author:Robert Macfarlane

11 Roots On pilgrimage — ‘Bees of the Invisible’ — The Rule of Resonance — The Library of the Forest — A demonstration of dominion — The Mask of Henry ...
( Category: Travel Writing October 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-16 | Author:Robert Milliken [ROBERT MILLIKEN]

One fight led to a severing of their relationship for more than a year. It happened one night in the back room at Max’s Kansas City, although its origin and ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 23,2017 )