Europe
epub |eng | | Author:David Yeadon

The Hag of Beara We stood in silence for a while. Maybe even a little awe crept in. It was obvious that scores of people had made their way here ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides August 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-17 | Author:Tim Robinson [Tim Robinson]

THE PERSON The Synges came to Ireland in the seventeenth century from England, produced a succession of bishops for the Protestant Church of Ireland, and married land. J.M. Synge’s father, ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-18 | Author:John Dummer

The waitress came over to tell us she'd found us a place. 'Come and eat with us, Marcel,' said Serge. 'We'll have a laugh.' 'OK, I won't eat with you, ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-16 | Author:Miller, Anita

23 The Wallace Collection AFTER WE FINISHED LUNCH, I suggested we walk down to the Wallace Collection. “I don’t think it’s very far from here. Your father and I loved ...
( Category: Humor August 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Simon Armitage [Armitage, Simon]

Langdon Beck to Baldersdale 15 MILES OS Explorer OL31 West Sheet, OL19 North, OL31 East Saturday 17 July My daughter says, ‘This is a funny holiday.’ Last night she toured ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Corrado Augias [Augias, Corrado]

After Liberation, during the postwar period the city seemed to have lost the impassioned energy of those exceptional days. In his reportage-infused novel La pelle (The Skin, 1949),11 the controversial ...
( Category: Europe August 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-02 | Author:David Long [Long, David]

BACK TO BLACK Created in a Surrey laboratory using carbon nanotubes that were discovered in the 1990s, a new material called Vantablack is the blackest substance known to man. It ...
( Category: Europe August 15,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-12-08 | Author:Primrose-Smith, Steven [Primrose-Smith, Steven]

As a county Newport is just outside the top ten most densely populated. Cycling eastwards through this urban hell, the jumping chain got worse and I knew I had to ...
( Category: Specialty Travel August 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:Patrick Leigh Fermor

* I loved all this. I was soon suspiciously expert in all the relevant sociohistorical lore, to which others might give a grosser name. But I would have been genuinely ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides August 15,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Matt Merritt

Nor did a lot of other birders. Peregrines carried on quietly but steadily building up their numbers in their strongholds, until they reached the point at which the young birds ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-11 | Author:Magris, Claudio [Magris, Claudio]

The Piedmontese made Italy. But nature – wrote Cesare Balbo in 1855, six years before unification – made them “as non-Italian as was possible” and they have found themselves “wishing, ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides August 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-05 | Author:Baxter, John

Alcohol permeated my childhood. My parents were far from heavy drinkers, but, like most Australians, they routinely socialised with their friends at the pub, leaving my brother and me to ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-14 | Author:Paul Clements

Two centuries ago more than 800 people lived and farmed in Gleninagh; today fewer than forty people live in this area. Over the years on visits to try to get ...
( Category: Hiking & Camping August 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-10 | Author:Paul Archer & Johno Ellison

We navigated out of Multan and to the final stop before the Indian border: Lahore. It was the night of a huge religious festival; everywhere was a whirling tumult of ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-14 | Author:LaSalle, Peter;

Conclusions? Overall, the French do have an uncanny sense, as backed by a winning track record, in figuring out what we ourselves sometimes overlook and don’t realize is our significant ...
( Category: South America August 14,2017 )