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The Great Walk of China by Graham Earnshaw
epub |eng | | Author:Graham Earnshaw

As I carried on towards the town, a man rode up to me on a motorcycle and stopped. His name was Mr. Yang, he was well-dressed, and told me he ...
( Category: Travel March 1,2016 )
Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2012-03-15 | Author:Tim Mackintosh-Smith [Mackintosh-Smith, Tim]

A miniature from the fifteenth-century Livre des merveilles shows the fantasy version of Masyaf, a turreted enclosure set among tusk-shaped mountains. Outside, human-headed deer prance or flop on the grass ...
( Category: Travel March 1,2016 )
The Rose Café by John Hanson Mitchell
epub |eng | | Author:John Hanson Mitchell

chapter eight Migrants Migratory birds begin to arrive on the western slopes and headlands of Corsica as early as February, flying north from their wintering grounds in Africa. By March ...
( Category: Corsica February 15,2016 )
Zen and the Art of Donkey Maintenance by Robert Crisp
epub |eng | 2015-02-14 | Author:Robert Crisp

Chapter 22 Eat, Drink and Be Merry There was a small glass before me containing half an inch of water. In a few moments it would become probably the most ...
( Category: Travel February 15,2016 )
The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Eric Weiner [WEINER, ERIC]

I had never met a Heathen before. I didn’t know what to expect, so I decided to do what journalists call reporting, academics call research, and normal people call reading. ...
( Category: Travel February 13,2016 )
The Unconquered by Wallace Scott
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-18 | Author:Wallace, Scott [Wallace, Scott]

CHAPTER 16 Ours Guns, Our Germs, and Our Steel THE MATIS LED THE WAY forward. Suddenly they pulled up in their tracks and pointed ahead, toward a cluster of trees ...
( Category: Brazil February 6,2016 )
Down to the Sea in Ships by Horatio Clare
epub |eng | 2013-11-06 | Author:Horatio Clare [Horatio Clare]

14 October Early bed under glittering stars, then woke at 4.45, so got up. Others were up too. Joel said: ‘Thank God for the stabilisers! If they weren’t out, in ...
( Category: Travel January 26,2016 )
Following the Equator by Mark Twain
epub |eng | 2004-06-23 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

CHAPTER XL. Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean. —Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar. The next picture in my mind is Government House, on Malabar Point, with the ...
( Category: Travel January 21,2016 )
In Morocco by Edith Wharton
epub |eng | | Author:Edith Wharton

* * * VI THE SAADIAN TOMBS On one of the last days of our stay in Marrakech we were told, almost mysteriously, that permission was to be given us ...
( Category: Travel January 21,2016 )
The River at the Centre of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time by Simon Winchester
mobi |eng | 1996-01-02 | Author:Simon Winchester

Mao Zedong was a very considerable poet – in output, if not always in quality – and he was prone to memorialize what he regarded as his greater achievements with ...
( Category: General January 13,2016 )
Journeys Out of the Body by Robert Monroe
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-11-11 | Author:Robert Monroe [Monroe, Robert]

5/27/60 Night After lifting out, I again felt what I knew to be one of the rubbery entities on my back. No words or action, just the small body clinging ...
( Category: Out-of-Body Experiences January 9,2016 )
Far Journeys by Robert Monroe
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-11-11 | Author:Robert Monroe

CLICK! BB vibrated. (I thought you couldn’t pull a skip!) I flickered. (Well, I …) (And both of us in the same pull!) BB rolled. (You don’t accept your own ...
( Category: Out-of-Body Experiences January 9,2016 )
Where the Indus is Young by Dervla Murphy
epub |eng | 2011-01-03 | Author:Dervla Murphy [Dervla Murphy]

Skardu – 23 January When I woke last night to use our ‘commode’ (that same bucket in which water is fetched during the day: of such unsavoury details is domestic ...
( Category: Travel January 4,2016 )
The Fly Trap by Fredrik Sjoberg
epub |eng | 2015-06-02 | Author:Fredrik Sjoberg [Sjoberg, Fredrik]

Klyuchevskaya rages upward towards the sky. It’s as if she knows herself to be the world’s greatest volcano and therefore longs to reach still higher; as if she were furious ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders December 20,2015 )
Among the Islands by Tim Flannery
epub |eng | 2011-12-19 | Author:Tim Flannery [Flannery, Tim]

CHAPTER 9 Probing towards the Summit Prior to my arrival in Honiara I’d written to David Roe, an archaeologist working in the Solomon Islands who’d excavated a cave north of ...
( Category: Mammals December 20,2015 )

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