Travel
epub |eng | | Author:Eric Newby [Eric Newby]

CHAPTER ELEVEN Encounter with a Member of the Master Race After I had been nearly a week at the Pian del Sotto I had still received no news from Wanda ...
( Category: World War II September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 1994-09-21 | Author:Eric Newby [Eric Newby]

‘Vorrei chiederle un piacere’ (‘I want to ask you a favour’) said a deep voice from behind me which I recognized immediately as being Tranquillo’s. I knew what was coming ...
( Category: Travel September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 1993-09-21 | Author:Eric Newby [Eric Newby]

Way Down the Wakwayowkastic River CANADA, 1969 IN THE AUTUMN OF 1969 I received an invitation from John Power, a writer about the Canadian outdoors, to make a canoe trip ...
( Category: Travel September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Eric Newby [Eric Newby]

* * * 1 The engravings made from Bartlett’s drawings of Constantinople first appeared in The Beauties of the Bosphorus by Miss Julia Pardoe, published in 1839. Miss Pardoe was ...
( Category: Travel September 22,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-05-18 | Author:Unknown

CHAPTER EIGHT COULD YOU FALL in love with a country? Yes, Johnny decided, yes, you could. Italy was spectacular. He loved everything about it. The cities, the towns, the ruins, ...
( Category: Arts & Photography September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-30 | Author:Pico Iyer [Iyer, Pico]

One night, I went to have dinner with my friend David, whom I’d met on a plane down to Havana (he springing out at the first stop to play catch ...
( Category: Cultural September 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Pico Iyer

The excitement of travel, even in Bolivia, is that you’re in a place where nothing makes more sense than in a dream: that pretty girl is smiling at you (or ...
( Category: Travel Writing September 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:Pico Iyer [Iyer, Pico]

3 WINTER MADE EVERYONE a kind of monk in Japan, bringing out a streak of worldly asceticism that was never far from the surface in this land of spartan epicures. ...
( Category: General September 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-07 | Author:Pico Iyer [Iyer, Pico]

AT THE RALLY, as so often in Manila, it was the happiness of the Filipinos that left me saddest. Carefree and irrepressible to the end, they reminded me finally of ...
( Category: Travel September 19,2014 )
azw3, mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-06-23 | Author:Tim Severin

9 ISLAND OF SMITHS One day, said the Navigatio, Saint Brendan and his crew found themselves being blown by a southerly wind toward a stony island “very rough, rocky and ...
( Category: Travel September 18,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-09-16 | Author:David Leavitt

That weeping stand on a distant shore, My young days darkened for evermore – O pray for me! Pray for the homeless, outcast one, Pray for the life crushed out ...
( Category: Italy September 17,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Grindrod, John [John Grindrod]

It was like the paperless office in reverse, the computer not just generating paper but ingesting it too. I was reminded of the punch-cards Alan Turing’s crypto-analysts were using for ...
( Category: Travel September 16,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-08-04 | Author:Marlena de Blasi

“I stop counting after five flights of narrow stone stairs, each one of which seems to veer off in a different direction. Valentino leads the way to a double wooden ...
( Category: Sicily September 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-08 | Author:Fodor's [Fodor's]

Montparnasse L’Assiette. BISTRO | David Rathgeber spent 12 years working for Alain Ducasse as chef of Aux Lyonnais and then Benoît before taking over this landmark restaurant, where he has ...
( Category: General September 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-22 | Author:Andrew Blackwell [Blackwell, Andrew]

Bravo Watch was quiet that night. There were rumors that Mary was heartbroken to have turned back, that she considered it a major blow to Project Kaisei. It was impossible ...
( Category: Environmental Science September 15,2014 )