epub |eng | 2015-10-12 | Author:Dominic Ziegler

CHAPTER 9 52°21.7' N 127°31.0' E The narrative of the European conquest and settlement of new lands comes everywhere now with acknowledgment of guilt and open shows of contrition. Except ...

epub |eng | 2015-04-19 | Author:Jonathan Tucker

Figure 25 Sogdian clay ossuary and deformed skulls. Seventh–eighth century. Over the next 300 years control of the city changed hands a number of times but it continued to thrive ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-18 | Author:Sandy Gall [Gall, Sandy]

13 The Protection-Money Racket We don’t trust what they say any more. Pushtun elder, Kandahar, quoted in the New York Times, 26 March 2010 Kandahar is Afghanistan’s second city, the ...

epub |eng | 2011-01-30 | Author:Christopher Aslan Alexander [Alexander, Christopher Aslan]

8 The dawn sweepers ‘You would never believe it,’ he said, ‘how our women are spoilt among us Sarts (Uzbeks). You can often see Kirghiz women working in the fields, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2015-08-31 | Author:Planet, Lonely & Masters, Tom [Planet, Lonely]

4Sleeping Adaaran Select MeedhupparuRESORT ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %658 7700; www.adaaran.com/selectmeedhupparu; full board r from US$472; aiWs) Meedhupparu has gorgeous white beaches sloping down to a perfect turquoise lagoon. ...

epub |eng | 2011-01-03 | Author:Dervla Murphy [Dervla Murphy]

Skardu – 23 January When I woke last night to use our ‘commode’ (that same bucket in which water is fetched during the day: of such unsavoury details is domestic ...

epub |eng | | Author:Lonely Planet

Day 3: Geling to Tsarang 6–7 hours / 890m ascent / 870m descent The trail from Geling turns westward and climbs gently through fields in a broad valley, passing below ...

mobi |eng | 2011-06-30 | Author:Lonely Planet

* * * IF YOU CAN’T CLIMB YUSHAN, TRY… With over a thousand people applying for the 90 permits to climb Yushan each day, you need some options if you ...

epub |eng | | Author:Lonely Planet

Horse Riding The wooded hills, villages and lakes around Udaipur are lovely riding country. You'll saddle up on Rajasthan's celebrated Marwari horses, known for their intelligence, stamina and cute inward-curving ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Lonely Planet

Johnson’sGUESTHOUSE ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %9846466399, 0477-2245825; www.johnsonskerala.com; d ₹500-850; iW) This backpacker favourite in a tumbledown mansion is as quirky as its owner, the gregarious Johnson Gilbert. It's ...

epub |eng | | Author:Lonely Planet

Gupteshwor Mahadev CaveCAVE ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; foreigner/SAARC Rs 100/50; h6am-7pm) Across the road from Devi’s Falls, this venerated cave contains a huge stalagmite worshipped as a Shiva lingam. ...

mobi |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Mark Tully

In the newspaper article that first inspired me to set out on my journey to Ireland, John O’Donohue called for ‘prophetic reflection’. He had also described his country as having ...

mobi |eng | 2011-04-05 | Author:V.S. Naipaul

PART THREE Not Ideas, but Obsessions 5. A Defect of Vision 1 IN 1888, WHEN he was nineteen, and already married for six years, Gandhi went to England to study ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John Masters [Masters, John]

March 1915 Krishna Ram walked slowly down the ride, his hand deep thrust into the pockets of his British warm. It was ten o’clock in the morning, after a long ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jim Corbett

of the peninsula. Here the Sarda widens out and shallows, and flows for two hundred yards over rocks before entering a big pool. It was at the upper end of ...