Travel
epub |eng | 2010-07-05 | Author:Oliver Bullough

14.The gorge of the Cherek valley. Freshfield’s mountaineers passed up this narrow valley and were probably the first western Europeans to visit it. 15. Upper Balkaria today. Ruined houses are ...
( Category: Europe December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rick Bass [Bass, Rick]

I had, once again, meant for this whole essay to be numbers: a landslide of numbers, like brittle talus. But I cannot tolerate them, at present. There is a space ...
( Category: Wildlife December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-22 | Author:Robin Esrock

Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (see page 254) and Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, are the only other two urban centres in North America designated as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. START HERE: ...
( Category: Tourist Destinations & Museums December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-07-19 | Author:Phillip Done [Done, Phillip]

ER The other day I walked out to the front of the school and checked the sign on the front of the building. It said, “School.” I guess I really ...
( Category: Philosophy & Social Aspects December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-13 | Author:Jim Yardley [Yardley, Jim]

Li Yuanwei, commissioner of the league, arrived about fifteen minutes before tipoff and took a seat in the coal millionaire section. Bespectacled and professorial, Li was the mystery guest, a ...
( Category: General December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-04 | Author:Eva Joly

At the airport, with the sound of the loudspeakers in the background, Steffy called. He had probably been warned by Do that Félix was still playing the hero. “Just want ...
( Category: Political December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-06-12 | Author:J. Maarten Troost

IHAD ALWAYS BEEN FOND OF NATURE. PROVOCATIVE AND outlandish as that might seem, it’s true. That fondness, however, didn’t mean I had any great desire to climb a twenty-five-thousand-foot mountain—where’s ...
( Category: General December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Oliver Bullough [Bullough, Oliver]

WINTER 8 It’s like a plague A Russian train in winter is a far better place than the same train in summer. With snow and the long dark night outside, ...
( Category: Christianity December 27,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-04-22 | Author:Gross, Matt [Gross, Matt]

In March 1997, the Viet Nam News sent me to Phnom Penh to cover the First Biennial Southeast Asian Film Festival, a grand series of new releases from all over ...
( Category: Adventure December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-24 | Author:Adrian McKinty

A Belfast woman committed suicide yesterday. She was found by her sister. Police are making no further enquiries. The clippings added corroborative force to Mickey’s evidence. Mr. O’Neill and I ...
( Category: General December 27,2014 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Grace, Savannah [Grace, Savannah]

School-To-Go 24 “With the dunes being such a bust, we’ve actually done nothing here except eat,” Ammon had said the night before, “so I say we should just keep moving ...
( Category: Memoirs December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Asne Seierstad

The three boys have been driving for a couple of hours when they catch up with the backlog of pilgrims. The queue is immovable. It has started to snow. Fog ...
( Category: Operation Desert Storm December 27,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-08-22 | Author:Deryn Lake [Deryn Lake]

Chapter Thirteen When William Kemp, jeweller and renowned citizen of London, had taken on the task of turning a dangerous swimming pond into one of the capital’s most enchanting hubs ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-01 | Author:Tim Cahill [Cahill, Tim]

Things began looking up the day before the eclipse. A slight northerly shift in the jet stream and the storm riding in on it doubled the chances of clear weather ...
( Category: Adventure December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Philip Caputo

23. Alex invited us over for coffee—French-press coffee with cardamom, no less—and Dani performed with impressive dexterity, twirling a hoop around each shoulder, another around her waist, and a fourth ...
( Category: United States December 27,2014 )