Travel
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-06-03 | Author:Ahmed Rashid

CHAPTER TWELVE Taliban Resurgent The Taliban Return Home The Taliban did not just slip back across the border in the winter of 2001/2002; they arrived in droves, by bus, taxi, ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf | | 2009-12-26 | Author:Tom Wolfe

Well, there were some big grins, all right, up in the high desert, at Edwards, among the brethren. Here were some men who had something to smile about. Now the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-20 | Author:Timothy Egan

Boise City, Oklahoma, April 1936 The Ehrlichs tried grinding up thistle for cattle feed, but it did not seem to work as it did for the Lowerys; their stock herd ...
( Category: Natural Disasters March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-05-12 | Author:Timothy Egan

A FEW YEARS into his project, Turnbull’s ranch was crowded with birds—speedy, hyperkinetic, somewhat neurotic, exceedingly horny— and Highlands Ranch was crowded with people, who were doing their share for ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Alexis Tocqueville

CHAPTER 2 THE PRINCIPAL SOURCE OF BELIEFS AMONG DEMOCRATIC NATIONS Depending on the times, beliefs of a dogmatic character are more or less common. They arise in different ways and ...
( Category: Democracy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Tony Horwitz

FROM HIS OLIVE SKIN and unusual surname, I’d guessed that the pharmacist Joe Gerache was of southern European extraction. But when I arrived at his home in suburban Vicksburg, I ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Linda Hunt

William and Mary Bryan’s home in Lincoln, Nebraska, decorated for a celebration during the Presidential election year of 1896. Courtesy Nebraska State Historical Society Photograph Collections, RG3198:22-6. Detail of this ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:Hampton Sides

Narbona’s sons believed the old man was already on the path. “You’ve gone away from us now,” they chanted. “You’ve gone away by yourself.” Having slaughtered the horses and left ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1996-01-01 | Author:Jonathan Raban

The Wollastons were bent on self-sufficiency, on making the homestead pay. Many, if not most, of their neighbors were subsidizing their farms by taking outside jobs. They taught school, or ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-01-02 | Author:Nathaniel Philbrick

The Whisper of Necessity BEFORE THEY LEFT Henderson Island, Chase loaded a flat stone and an armful of firewood into each boat. That first evening back on the water, as ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-07-04 | Author:Philip Varney

One of the most graceful churches in the Mountain West, Silver City’s Our Lady of Tears Catholic Church has undergone extensive restoration. The Silver Slipper Saloon and the next-door Getchell ...
( Category: Travel March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-19 | Author:Lee Sandlin

If there was a heart to the city, it was down from the old French Quarter, behind the warehouse district at the southwest curve of the waterfront crescent. This was ...
( Category: Historical Geography March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-01 | Author:David Cordingly

9 Welcome to Nassau At 4 p.m. on 25 July 1718 the lookouts on HMS Rose sighted the eastern end of the island of New Providence. Captain Whitney had been ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Alexandra Fuller

IT WAS ONLY AFTER we had crossed the border from Zambia into Zimbabwe that K remembered that he still had his revolver with him. “Shit,” he laughed, rooting around in ...
( Category: Memoirs March 25,2014 )