Travel
mobi |eng | 1991-01-02 | Author:Pico Iyer

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: Travel Writing March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1995-08-10 | Author:Karl Taro Greenfeld

“Hello, uh, this is Takehiro Hashimoto speaking, may I please speak with Keiko Nakagami?” “That is me.” “Uh. Thank you very much for coming to lunch with my family and ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1994-01-02 | Author:Steve Coll

Organized, state-sponsored political murder is practiced regularly and on a significant scale in South Asia today not only in Sri Lanka but in the disputed Indian states of Punjab and ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-06 | Author:Steve Inskeep

10 EMERGENCY NUMBERS This is where we last encountered Dr. Seemin Jamali, the “Incharge” of the emergency department at Jinnah hospital. On February 5, 2010, an argument was boiling at ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-04 | Author:Tom Scocca

Within two weeks of the earthquake, Sichuan was in the Bird’s Nest, running and jumping. TV and radio were still full of disaster reports and fund-raising specials; orphans were everywhere. ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-05 | Author:Paul Sochaczewski

The origin of most sacred groves is lost in time. I asked Vithal Rajan, chairman of the central Indian Deccan Development Society and formerly director of education and ethics for ...
( Category: Travel March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-12 | Author:Colin Thubron

Chapter 8 Tashkent A familiar Soviet gloom permeated Samarkand’s railway station. Its gangways clanged to the trudge of labourers, and the air stank with diesel and steam spurting from vents ...
( Category: General Asia Travel Books March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Chapter VIII - Spring * Inside was pandemonium. Most men had gone to bed, and I have a blurred memory of men in pyjamas and dressing-gowns getting hold of me ...
( Category: Polar Regions March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-03-11 | Author:Scott Huler

BEYOND WHAT IT TELLS US ABOUT ODYSSEUS, this episode makes a point about his crew that wasn’t clear to me until my wife pointed it out: “They’re red-shirts,” she said ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1979-06-13 | Author:John Anthony West

detail of a given situation. The image is concrete (bird, snake, dog, etc.), and it represents a synthesis, a complex of qualities, functions and principles. Careful study of the symbols ...
( Category: Fairy Tales March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-09-01 | Author:Ginger Adams Otis; Beth Greenfield; Regis St. Louis; Robert Reid

Return to beginning of chapter UNION SQUARE, FLATIRON DISTRICT & GRAMERCY There’s plenty of shopping to be had in this big block of neighborhoods. First and foremost is Union Sq, ...
( Category: Mid Atlantic March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-29 | Author:Jordan Fisher Smith

A few months later it was my turn to go to the bridge. It was early morning, and the sun rising over the mountains on the eastern skyline was painting ...
( Category: Pacific March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1883-01-02 | Author:Mark Twain; Bill Mckibben

CHAPTER XXXI A Thumbprint and What Came of It We were approaching Napoleon, Arkansas. So I began to think about my errand there. Time, noonday; and bright and sunny. This ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-31 | Author:Chuck Palahniuk

Getting Off: How to Knock Off a Piece in Portland “THE JIG’S UP—people are having sex in Portland,” says Teresa Dulce. An advocate for Portland’s sex workers and the publisher ...
( Category: Portland March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-05-08 | Author:Jane Mayer

At this point, a remarkable internal rebellion broke out on the island. It was led not by political opponents of the Bush Administration, nor by human rights activists, but rather ...
( Category: African March 25,2014 )