Travel
epub |eng | | Author:Tony Wheeler [Wheeler, Tony]

Damage Comfort has its place, but it seems rude to visit another country dressed as if you’ve come to mow its lawns. David Sedaris, humorist and writer Travel is never ...
( Category: Australia February 26,2023 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-28 | Author:Ida Pfeiffer [Pfeiffer, Ida]

CHAPTER X. The “Queen’s Bath.”—Soldiers and Officers.—Banquet and Ball.—Departure from Tamatavé.—Second Visit to Antandroroko.—Vovong.—The Fever.—Andororanto.—Land and Cultivation.—Condition of the People.—Manambotre.—The bad Roads and the Bearers.—Ambatoarana. At length, on the 13th ...
( Category: Madagascar & Comoros February 26,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-24 | Author:Gertrude Forde [Forde, Gertrude]

CHAPTER XII. FROM CARGHESE TO AJACCIO. When we left our rooms next morning, the skies were black with rain, and the downpour obliged us to put off our start till ...
( Category: Higher & Continuing Education February 26,2023 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-29 | Author:Stephen Lucius Gwynn [Gwynn, Stephen Lucius]

III So far as recruiting went, Redmond had won. He was sure of making good to England. But in what concerned making good to Ireland, he had no progress to ...
( Category: Great Britain February 26,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-29 | Author:Marie Carmichael Stopes [Stopes, Marie Carmichael]

The Women’s University owed much to this family at its foundation, and they asked me if I would like to see over it, which of course I would, so they ...
( Category: General February 26,2023 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Ludwig Leichhardt [Leichhardt, Ludwig]

CHAPTER IX THE STARRY HEAVENS SUBSTITUTE FOR COFFEE SAWFISH TWO-STORIED GUNYAS OF THE NATIVES THE MITCHELL MURPHY'S PONY POISONED GREEN TREE-ANT NEW BEVERAGE CROCODILE AUDACITY OF KITES NATIVES NOT FRIENDLY ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies February 26,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-21 | Author:John, Rickman [John, Rickman]

We saw no plantations which exhibited the least trace of knowledge in the cultivation of the earth ; all seemed to remain in a pure state of nature ; shrubs ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies February 26,2023 )
epub |eng | 2006-09-15 | Author:Laurence Oliphant [Oliphant, Laurence]

CHAPTER X. The titles of his Excellency General Jung Bahadoor Coomaranagee in England—Extraordinary notions of the British public on Indian affairs—Jung Bahadoor’s conciliatory policy—Our unsuccessful attempt to penetrate beyond the ...
( Category: Architecture February 26,2023 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-30 | Author:Joanna Lillis [Lillis, Joanna]

Polina-apa (apa is a respectful term of address for older women, loosely ‘elder sister’) has no memories of the Aardakh, but the traumatic story was passed down by her mother ...
( Category: African History February 25,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-18 | Author:A. R. Hope (Ascott Robert Hope) Moncrieff [Moncrieff, A. R. Hope]

From Bourdeaux-ward, while that the chapmen sleep: Of nicé conscience took he no keep. Hard by is a later ruin to show how a lighthouse was designed in the eighteenth ...
( Category: Travel February 25,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-07-29 | Author:John Hughes [Hughes, John]

I must confess, that we observed these poor penitents with an interest and attention which the other parts of the ceremony had failed to excite. The manifestation of a deep ...
( Category: Europe February 25,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-08-13 | Author:John L. Stephens [Stephens, John L.]

* * * CHAPTER IX. The Soldier's Reward.—Review of the Russian Army.—American Cannibals.—Palace of Potemkin.—Palace of the Grand-duke Michael.—Equipments for Travelling.—Rough Riding.—Poland.—Vitepsk.—Napoleon in Poland.—The Disastrous Retreat.—Passage of the Berezina. Early ...
( Category: Asia February 25,2023 )
epub |eng | 2008-04-24 | Author:Francis A. (Francis Arnold) Knight [Knight, Francis A.]

looms faintly through the haze. The white houses scattered through the valley melt away into the mist. But the sun is still warm. The cones of the old firs crackle ...
( Category: Europe February 25,2023 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-29 | Author:John L. Stephens [Stephens, John L.]

* * * CHAPTER VIII. A Noble Grecian Lady.—Beauty of Scio.—An Original.—Foggi.—A Turkish Coffee-house.—Mussulman at Prayers.—Easter Sunday.—A Greek Priest.—A Tartar Guide.—Turkish Ladies.—Camel Scenes.—Sight of a Harem.—Disappointed Hopes.—A rare Concert.—Arrival at ...
( Category: Asia February 25,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-05-04 | Author:Norman Minnick [Minnick, Norman]

WALKING TO THE CIRCLE: 25 MILES THROUGH A DIVIDED CITY MICHAEL McCOLLY Last summer, I was sitting in what was my old bedroom, staring out the window, distracted from what ...
( Category: Midwest February 25,2023 )