Writing
epub |eng | | Author:Harold Holzer

But Lincoln surely knew who bore the principal guilt for the scandal. When, late in September, the persistent “Chevalier” brazenly petitioned the president for a pass to accompany a naval ...
( Category: American Civil War November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-11 | Author:Ruben Castaneda

I called Lou the following day. I’d worked into the article a brief reference to the two kids he’d taken into his home. One of them was Kenny McFarland, a ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction 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 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-22 | Author:Dervla Murphy [Dervla Murphy]

3 JULY Yesterday I returned from a hectic four-day visit to Kathmandu; it’s difficult to decide which was the more exhausting part of it – the refugee business that took ...
( Category: General November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-22 | Author:Dervla Murphy [Dervla Murphy]

My dearest Dervla, There is no need to tell you that Charlie Kerins met his death with the greatest possible courage and bravery. I was allowed to visit him on ...
( Category: Travel November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-22 | Author:Dervla Murphy [Dervla Murphy]

Take heed – how the political leadership of the Palestinians views this envoy counts for nothing. * * * The British glanced at a one-state solution, binationalism, before Partition in ...
( Category: Asian November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-03 | Author:Caro Feely & Caro

'Collecting samples is not something oenologists do but today it is pratique,' said our serious oenologist, underlining the clear delineation of roles so essential to French life. 'I think you ...
( Category: General November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-22 | Author:Dervla Murphy [Dervla Murphy]

This evening the Bank Director and the provincial Chief of Telecommunications took me to a tej-beit beyond the town centre. On our way we passed the market-place, where a public ...
( Category: Travel November 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1977-01-01 | Author:Philip Roth [Roth, Philip]

Dear Arthur: You can’t have it both ways: that Debbie took “a joking tone” or, as she put it, a “purposely superficial … tone” because that best expressed her attitude ...
( Category: Writing November 21,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Gertrude Stein [Stein, Gertrude]

THREE PORTRAITS OF PAINTERS [Cezanne] [Matisse] [Picasso] The portraits of Matisse and Picasso were originally published in the August, 1912, issue of CAMERA WORK and later were reprinted in PORTRAITS ...
( Category: United States November 20,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-03-28 | Author:Mark Bowden [Bowden, Mark]

This proved to be the high point of the afternoon for the Eagles and their fans. The Patriots went on to score two touchdowns in succession, taking a 17–7 lead ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction November 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-06-11 | Author:Steves, Rick [Steves, Rick]

Orientation to Bergen Bergen clusters around its harbor—nearly everything listed in this chapter is within a few minutes’ walk. The busy Torget (the square with the Fish Market) is at ...
( Category: General November 19,2014 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2011-11-07 | Author:Keahey, John [Keahey, John]

TEN Aci Trezza and the Cyclops A grim loner, dead set in his own lawless ways. Here was a piece of work, by god, a monster built like no mortal ...
( Category: General November 18,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-04 | Author:Sharyl Attkisson [Attkisson, Sharyl]

CHAPTER 5 | The Politics of HealthCare.gov | (and Covering It) It’s Thursday, October 31, 2013, and it’s about to be a very scary Halloween for the Obama administration. I’m ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction November 18,2014 )