Travel
azw3 |eng | 2012-07-25 | Author:Fadlan, Ibn [Fadlan, Ibn]

4. Zuhrī on Viking ships c. 1160 Abū ‘Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Zuhrī (d. between 1154 and 1161) was an Andalusian cosmographer about whom almost nothing is known. ...
( Category: Anthologies April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 1973-05-30 | Author:

THE TALE OF KAFUR THE BLACK EUNUCH KNOW, my friends, that when no more than eight years of age I had already cultivated a remarkable habit of telling one big ...
( Category: Multicultural April 19,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2004-01-28 | Author:Ovid

Book 9 Hercules is the key figure in the next group of stories. Acheloüs and Hercules (1–97) is a lively account of how the river-god fought with the hero for ...
( Category: Ancient, Classical & Medieval April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2003-06-25 | Author:Bernal Díaz

The Entrance into Mexico Early next day we left Iztapalapa with a large escort of these great Caciques, and followed the causeway, which is eight yards wide and goes so ...
( Category: Europe April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 1979-09-26 | Author:Psellus, Michael [Psellus, Michael]

THE EMPEROR’S PERSONAL APPEARANCE It was a marvel of beauty that Nature brought into being in the person of this man, so justly proportioned, so harmoniously fashioned, that there was ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 1974-11-27 | Author:Gregory Of Tours

BOOK VIII HERE BEGIN THE CHAPTER-HEADINGS OF BOOK VIII 1. The visit made by King Guntram to Orleans. 2. How the bishops were presented to him and how he had ...
( Category: France April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-28 | Author:Brian Butko

In Shady Bend, east of Grand Island, the Spanish Revival service station is now a popular cafe serving home cooked meals and desserts. The original road turns left at Shady ...
( Category: Automotive History April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-14 | Author:Jean Fruth

Hall of Famer Randy Johnson, five-time Cy Young Award-winner, Main Street, Cooperstown, NY. The nickname on my Hall of Fame plaque says, “Big Unit.” But it was Little League that ...
( Category: Sports April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-09 | Author:Noah Siegel [Siegel, Noah]

Hygrocybe flavescens (Kauffman) Singer YELLOW WAXY CAP CAP: 2–8 cm across, convex to plane with a small umbo, margin becoming uneven, mature specimens often wavy. Pale lemon yellow to bright ...
( Category: Biology April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lamorna Ash

It is only later that I realise Don’s gruffness, his slamming hand on the table, is not an attack, but an attempt to harden me into a shape so I ...
( Category: Fish & Sharks April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-03 | Author:Gillen D’arcy Wood [Wood, Gillen D’arcy]

Interlude: The Antarctic Convergence Jim Kennett, a central figure in the early history of paleoceanography, was the same age as Joseph Hooker when he first saw Antarctica. And, like Hooker, ...
( Category: Geology April 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-06 | Author:Kent Dannen

5.25 Arrive at the top of Andrews Glacier at Andrews Pass. Look around so that you can tell where the pass is if you ascend Taylor. Assuming the weather looks ...
( Category: Hiking & Camping Excursion Guides April 18,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Leslie Brokaw [Brokaw, Leslie; Trahan, Erin; Barber, Matthew]

9 MONTRÉAL WALKING TOURS Cities best reveal themselves on foot, and Montréal is one of North America’s most pedestrian-friendly locales. There’s much to see in the concentrated districts—cobblestoned Vieux-Montréal, downtown ...
( Category: Quebec City Travel Guides April 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gertrude Stein

PART IV I LIKE WORDS of one syllable and it works out very well in the French order for general mobalisation. The printed thing gives all the detail and then ...
( Category: Authors April 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-10 | Author:Unknown

Reforming the Empire The road from the Ottoman imperial kaleidoscope to the rigidly defined world of the successor nation-states was a long one. The first part of this process goes ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 16,2020 )