Nature & Ecology
epub |eng | 2007-12-31 | Author:James Howard Kunstler [Kunstler, James Howard]

Joseph and I proceeded down to the waterworks, leaving the others behind with Bracklaw to keep down any news of our doings. It was a five-minute walk. The great waterwheel ...
( Category: Environmentalism March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lydia Millet [Millet, Lydia]

Over time, as T. had suspected he would, Fulton delivered an education. The change came suddenly, when the two of them went back to T.’s apartment for beer once after ...
( Category: Psychological March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rabindranath Tagore

* * * LIV The Cloud said to me, "I vanish"; the Night said, "I plunge into the fiery dawn." The Pain said, "I remain in deep silence as his ...
( Category: Indian March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-12-11 | Author:Craig Childs [CHILDS, CRAIG]

PRONGHORN ANTELOPE The pay for the work was seven hundred dollars. It didn’t include film or gas or food. Because I was sixteen years old, it was much more money ...
( Category: Wildlife March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 | | 2010-06-03 | Author:Bryson, Bill [Bill, Bryson,]

A Short History of Nearly Everything CHAPTER 17: INTO THE TROPOSPHERE THANK GOODNESS FOR the atmosphere. It keeps us warm. Without it, Earth would be a lifeless ball of ice ...
( Category: Astronomy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-03-25 | Author:Richard Fortey [Fortey, Richard]

The Dollar Real Money: a 1922 U.S. silver dollar. The most ordinary thing in the world, a scrap of paper: a buck, a greenback. The dollar: flimsy fuel for the ...
( Category: Geology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:Tim Harper & Tim Harper

MALAYA’S FORGOTTEN REGIMENTS Among the forsaken of empire were the vast regiments of labourers on the rubber plantations of Malaya. In the words of Selangor trade unionist C. V. S. ...
( Category: Asia March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1984-01-01 | Author:Annie Dillard [Dillard, Annie]

Softly, very softly, we turned to Tiziano and asked, "If you were in India, what would you be saying?" And softly, very softly, Tiziano Terzani, stirring sugar into his coffee ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1990-01-01 | Author:Timothy Egan [Egan, Timothy]

Chapter 7 FRIENDS OF THE HIDE At the Nisqually Delta, where Puget Sound picks up the runoff from one of Mount Rainier’s longest glaciers and then doglegs north, creatures of ...
( Category: State & Local March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1986-01-01 | Author:Peter Matthiessen [Matthiessen, Peter]

14. The East Hampton Town Baymen’s Association On a September day four or five years ago, coming ashore at Montauk Lake from a day’s fishing, I saw a familiar figure ...
( Category: Fishing March 26,2014 )
epub | | 2013-06-30 | Author:A Village to Reinvent the World

~ “pepe GOMEZ wants to meet you,” guillermo perry told paolo Lugari. “Who’s Pepe Gomez?” asked Paolo. They were chatting after a meet­ing in Bogota of the Institute Geografico Agustin ...
( Category: Colombia March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Craig Childs [CHILDS, CRAIG]

Colin and I spent most of the day at this cliff dwelling, hardly speaking to each other, just moving from ruin to ruin—some hardly ruins at all. I eventually made ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-21 | Author:Q. C. Masters [Masters, Q. C.]

Laser Tag Abby arrived at Jordan's house about fifteen minutes early. She sat in her truck unsure if she should wait until ten before knocking on her door. She didn't ...
( Category: Crime March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Kodas

After his initial complaints that the Courant and I weren’t providing him and the rest of the team with e-mail and satellite phone service, he accused Bill Driggs, ironically the ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Peter Matthiessen [Matthiessen, Peter]

Toward midmorning, Jonah and I head west across the Garamba River, on a four-hundred-mile flight to Bangassou, in the Central African Republic. We have left the rivers that flow toward ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists March 26,2014 )