Travel
epub |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Antonio Pigafetta

After we had supped, the king sent for a reed mat, and another of palm, and a pillow of leaves to lie on that night. And the king with his ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-19 | Author:Kennedy Warne

We walk on through the Lilliputian mangroves, sometimes sinking to our knees in the slushy sediment. It’s like walking through thick soup. The soil here is the finest peat, formed ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 25,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1888-03-24 | Author:Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894

allow to fall under any other power, our right and our duty is to govern such races and to govern them well, or they will have a right in turn ...
( Category: World March 24,2018 )
epub |fra | | Author:Michelin Travel & Lifestyle

Popular resort – Alphonse Karr (1808–90) was an extravagant personality, who used his talents as a journalist and pamphleteer to oppose Napoleon III from Nice, where he was in exile. ...
( Category: Europe March 24,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-02-01 | Author:Melvin Cole [Cole, Melvin]

Maria Theresia: 1740-1780 (4 minutes) Maria Theresia (1740-1780) took the throne upon the death of her father Charles VI, due to the death of Charles only son Maria Theresia was ...
( Category: Europe March 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-29 | Author:Belinda Jones [Jones, Belinda]

Numbers exchanged, the girls go back to their 'and then all my clothes fell off' routines and I persuade Reed and Izzy to make a move. Once outside it's a ...
( Category: Romantic Comedy March 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-09-03 | Author:Tobias Jones [Jones, Tobias]

As rhetoric, that announcement was of unrivalled brilliance. Even in translation, that combination of moderation, modernity, ‘cleanliness’, statal good sense instead of a left wing ‘cartel’, is effective. Berlusconi’s popularity ...
( Category: Europe March 24,2018 )
mobi |en-us | | Author:Unknown

Chapter Four Oliver looked out the window as the small private jet descended. What a view! The islands were strung across a brilliant blue sea like so many jewels. If ...
( Category: Arts & Photography March 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Brian Thacker [Thacker, Brian]

I awoke at eleven-thirty with a volcanic hangover. There was one good thing about the biting arctic cold. It’s amazing how quickly you can forget your hangover when your face ...
( Category: Reference March 23,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2000-06-06 | Author:I'm a stranger here myself: notes on returning to America after twenty years away

When we moved to America, the change in electrical systems meant I needed all new stuff for my office—computer, fax machine, answering machine, and so on. I am not good ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs March 23,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Notes from a Small Island

Notes from a Small Island CHAPTER FIFTEEN I WENT TO RETFORD. I CAN'T EXPLAIN IT. THROUGH MY MORNING ablutions, the gentle removal of the tissues from my swollen nostrils, through ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 23,2018 )
mobi |eng | 1999-11-15 | Author:A walk in the woods: rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

Chapter 12 I’d expected Katz to be insufferable in the morning, but in fact he was surprisingly gracious. He called me for coffee and when I emerged, feeling wretched and ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Michelle D. Argyle [Argyle, Michelle D.]

“I thought you said you would be leaving,” she said. “When they take me to Italy with them, you’re not coming.” He moved his hands from around her waist and ...
( Category: Romance March 23,2018 )
epub |rus | 2001-01-01 | Author:Unknown

15. Capulets & Montagues “Why are you here?” I demanded, and Loki only raised an eyebrow in response. His room was in the old servants’ quarters, and it wasn’t quite ...
( Category: Drawing March 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Mary Pope Osborne [Osborne, Mary Pope]

Priscilla Alden (dates unknown) Priscilla Mullins traveled on the Mayflower with her mother, father, brother, and a servant. Sadly, all of them died in the winter of 1621, and young ...
( Category: History March 23,2018 )