Travel
mobi, epub |eng | 1992-01-02 | Author:Doris May Lessing

OVER THE RAINBOW In Harare they talk endlessly about the new agreement over Namibia in the same way we do about the ending of the Iran–Iraq War, and the end ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:S. C. Gwynne

Coho Smith captured Cynthia Ann as no one else has. Other people saw her as sullen, brooding, unresponsive, detached. Despondent. Even crazy, or at least so far sunk in savagery ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-19 | Author:Amitav Ghosh

14 WITH THE COMING of winter the rains began and soon the lanes of Nashawy were knee-deep in cold, sticky mud and nobody ventured out of their houses if they ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-11-02 | Author:Caroline Alexander

On Elephant Island The James Caird, Dudley Docker, and Stancomb Wills safely ashore at Cape Valentine, Elephant Island. The men pull the Caird to higher ground; two figures, one in ...
( Category: Arctic & Antarctica March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-12-22 | Author:Peter Ackroyd

One unwelcome novelty of the latter half of the twentieth century, for example, was the race riot, among the most notable being those of Notting Hill in 1958 and of ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-05-04 | Author:Christopher McDougall

CHAPTER 23 WE WHEEZED into Creel well after nightfall, the bus shuddering to a stop with a hiss from the brakes like a sigh of relief. Outside the window, I ...
( Category: Native American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Gretchen Berg

JULY 12 - SUBJECT: Hi! Hey Gretchen, We have had an unexpected increase in enrollments for our summer conversation classes, and so we’ll need you here in Suli for August ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Andrea Di Robilant

The trumpets blare, The proud horseman Enters the arena. He has a natural instinct for battle: He stiffens his chest, his arms and feet, And firmly holds his steed. The ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-04-04 | Author:Julia Child

IN OUR FIRST MAIL delivery in Marseille came a letter from Avis De Voto. In responding to some photos we’d sent of ourselves, she wrote: “I am very pleased with ...
( Category: French March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-19 | Author:Bob Friel

ONE OF THE PEOPLE Colt kept in touch with while he was on the lam was Josh, who remained behind the fence at Green Hill. “He started calling here, asking ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-03-01 | Author:Richard Henry Dana; Anne Spencer

CHAPTER XXVII The Sunday Wash-up—On Shore—A Set-to—A Grandee—“Sail Ho!”—A Fandango The only other vessel in port was the Russian government bark, from Asitka, mounting eight guns, (four of which we ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Jim Davidson; Kevin Vaughan

KNEELING OVER MIKE, I stare at his rumpled jacket, unsure of what to do. A question rings loudly in my mind: Where are we? I stand tentatively to look around. ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1899-01-02 | Author:Joshua Slocum; Dennis A. Berthold

CHAPTER XII Seventy-two days without a port—Whales and birds—A peep into the Spray’s galley—Flying-fish for breakfast—A welcome at Apia—A visit from Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson—At Vailima—Samoan hospitality—Arrested for fast riding—An ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-09-22 | Author:Graham Bowley

CHAPTER THIRTEEN 3 a.m. Marco Confortola had waded alone along the sloping snowfield from the top of K2. After more than an hour, he had seen headlamps in a line ...
( Category: Travel March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-26 | Author:Ranulph Fiennes

13 Sorry Straits Trying to plan and organise two expeditions at the same time is something I have usually avoided, but whilst I was training for the solo Antarctic crossing ...
( Category: Rich & Famous March 25,2014 )