epub |eng | | Author:Ernest Shackleton

CHAPTER X ACROSS SOUTH GEORGIA The sun rose in the sky with every appearance of a fine day, and we grew warmer as we toiled through the soft snow. Ahead ...

azw |eng | 1985-01-01 | Author:Cormac Mccarthy [McCarthy, Cormac]

II Across the prairie – A hermit – A nigger’s heart – A stormy night – Westward again – Cattle drovers – Their kindness – On the trail again – ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-30 | Author:Planet, Lonely & Alexis Averbuck [Planet, Lonely]

EAST ANTARCTICA East Antarctica – as US Antarctic historian Edwin Swift Balch first called it in 1904 – is the name most often used for this remote section of the ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-08-04 | Author:Hampton Sides [Sides, Hampton]

AROUND MIDNIGHT ON June 11, something momentous did happen. While most of the men slept away the bright polar night, the ice opened with a ragged crack, and the Jeannette ...

epub |eng | 1988-01-01 | Author:Francine Prose [Prose, Francine]

She reads through the list again. She puts down the phone. She thinks: I have nothing to tell him that isn’t about animals. Electricity ANITA SAILS THE BABY over her ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Gabrielle Walker

This is also when territorial troubles can start to play out, when it really starts to matter if someone is sitting in your chair. Last winter, Larry, Jake and a ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2008-04-15 | Author:Steve Alten [Alten, Steve]

* * * * * Frank Heller stood on the pier, watching as two crewmen secured the thick white ropes, carefully lining the slack up along the deck of the ...

epub |eng | 2013-10-02 | Author:None

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-08-11 | Author:Cormac McCarthy

HE WOKE IN THE NIGHT with some premonition of ill fate. He sat up. The fire had diminished to a single tongue of flame that stood near motionless from the ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Chapter VIII - Spring * Inside was pandemonium. Most men had gone to bed, and I have a blurred memory of men in pyjamas and dressing-gowns getting hold of me ...

mobi |eng | 2010-08-24 | Author:Megan Mcdonald; Peter H. Reynolds

The rest of Saturday, and all day Sunday, Judy and her fellow junior detectives biked all over the neighborhood in search of a dark green van. They saw black vans, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-31 | Author:Jean-Christophe Valtat

CHAPTER XX The Failure of the Feast “Why,” said he, laughing, “the barbed arrow of Master Cupid, my dear Gabriel, has penetrated quite through all the plates of your philosophy.” ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1998-11-02 | Author:Caroline Alexander

On Elephant Island The James Caird, Dudley Docker, and Stancomb Wills safely ashore at Cape Valentine, Elephant Island. The men pull the Caird to higher ground; two figures, one in ...

epub |eng | 2013-10-28 | Author:Heather Terrell [Terrell, Heather]

“Relic!” I call out. My breathless voice echoes loudly throughout the crevasse—too loudly, really—but I don’t care. It’s finally my turn. The Climber takes tick after tick to reach me, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-28 | Author:Roberts, David [Roberts, David]

c. Reduce time from 14 to 11½ weeks. d. More weight with tents & gear. [Therefore] I. not probable. II. 2a. Still out sketching [Harrisson was a gifted artist] 2b. ...