Travel
epub |eng | 2012-09-02 | Author:Graham Ratcliffe [Ratcliffe, Graham]

An Escape into History No sooner had I arrived home than I was out on location filming a BBC documentary called Mountain High: Twice To the Summit of Everest. Keith ...
( Category: Mountaineering December 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-09 | Author:Jacob White

And that was enough. It was pamphlet fodder for some historical society like those that littered the hill counties across northern Pennsylvania. But this neighborhood—it wasn’t thirty years old! I ...
( Category: United States December 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-15 | Author:Padraig Rooney

When you leave the motorway for the lakeside road to Montreux, the town takes you by surprise. One overgrown fishing village blends into another: St Saphorin, Vevey, La Tour de ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers December 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-08 | Author:Martin Radford [Radford, Martin]

Chapter 9 The Channel Well, some cool and inclement weather has again prevented me from going out walking much over the past week or so, but this Sunday afternoon the ...
( Category: Travel Writing December 15,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-04-06 | Author:C. Blake Powers

A truism in the military is that someone always doesn’t get the word. Despite the checkpoint having been cleared and approved with adjacent commands and units, the gentleman in the ...
( Category: Arts & Photography December 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-12 | Author:Nelson Algren

Sandburg’s Chicago, Dreiser’s Chicago, Farrell’s and Wright’s and my own Chicago, that was somebody else’s Chicago. That was a play with a different plot. Today the curtain rises on— Act ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides December 15,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Smiedt

7 Smiedt nothings After many years of being stranded on a desert island, a man is finally rescued. Before being taken home, he decides to give his saviours a tour ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides December 15,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Smiedt

Chapter 8 A Tribe Called Quest “There is lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.” So begins Alan Paton’s novel, Cry the Beloved Country, which every South African ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs December 15,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Neville

19 Whistling happily to himself, LAC Peter Saunders reached the sergeants’ mess kitchen at eleven o’clock in the morning on 1 April 1953 only to be confronted at the office ...
( Category: Asia December 15,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Nicolson [Adam Nicolson]

10 IN MIDSUMMER, AS THE BIRDS were proliferating around me, and as the cotton grass began to show its white-tufted pennants in the bogs, as the flag irises flowered in ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers December 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-10-01 | Author:Carmen Michael

–10– Gypsy Eyes She had eyes like a gypsy, oblique and sly. – MACHADO DE ASSIS, Dom Casmurro December arrived in Rio like a train coming to the end of ...
( Category: Travel December 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-04 | Author:Franz Nicolay

For three of the past four days, I had awoken to blizzard conditions, as the snow I outran the day before caught up with me in the morning. This morning, ...
( Category: Travel Writing December 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-06 | Author:Rob Binkley

6 Cambodian Zen WHAT HAPPENS WHEN TWO BURNT-OUT backpackers barely on speaking terms parachute into so-called enemy territory with no clue of what’s awaiting them below? What happens when we ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides December 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-22 | Author:Jeff Brown

Mr. Bradford would be rowing the Lambchops, with Paul Revere, across the river to a different part of the city. Once they arrived, Paul Revere would get on a horse ...
( Category: Action & Adventure December 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-08-06 | Author:Bunty Avieson [Avieson, Bunty]

In many ways the Bhutanese are thoroughly modern, and sexism doesn’t work quite the same way as it does elsewhere. Though women may be in charge of the domestic duties ...
( Category: Asia December 14,2017 )