Specialty Travel
azw3 |eng | 2013-04-22 | Author:Gross, Matt [Gross, Matt]

In March 1997, the Viet Nam News sent me to Phnom Penh to cover the First Biennial Southeast Asian Film Festival, a grand series of new releases from all over ...
( Category: Adventure December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-01 | Author:Tim Cahill [Cahill, Tim]

Things began looking up the day before the eclipse. A slight northerly shift in the jet stream and the storm riding in on it doubled the chances of clear weather ...
( Category: Adventure December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-08 | Author:Tim Cahill [Cahill, Tim]

As in Europe, there are some few people familiar with the origin and meaning of the ancient rituals. I. Ketut Suwena was one. He was fifty-two, the klian, or headman, ...
( Category: Adventure December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Edward L. Beach

Official U.S. Navy Photo Lieutenant Milton R. (“Whitey”) Rubb was our custodian of sea water. From each of the seven seas we gathered separate samples, and in one bottle we ...
( Category: Travel December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-12-26 | Author:Susan Shillinglaw & Nancy Burnett

Sea Otters Sea otter mural, Pacific Grove bike trail. For almost a century, the southern sea otter, slaughtered for its thick fur, was thought to be extinct. But in March ...
( Category: United States December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-14 | Author:Charles Wilkins

12 ACCORDING TO THE ADVENTURER Dervla Murphy, whose books are an all-but-howling subversion of common contemporary travel practices, the value and meaning of journeying are drastically eroded, if not destroyed, ...
( Category: Adventure December 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-08-05 | Author:Hampton Sides

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 ...
( Category: Transportation December 19,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-03-20 | Author:Cheryl Strayed

PART FOUR WILD When I had no roof I made Audacity my roof. ROBERT PINSKY, “Samurai Song” Never never never give up. WINSTON CHURCHILL 11 THE LOU OUT OF LOU ...
( Category: Pacific December 19,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-08 | Author:Christopher Stewart

UNCORRECTED E-PROOF—NOT FOR SALE HarperCollins Publishers .................................................................. “BEYOND HOPE” WITHOUT EVIDENCE OF the ancient city, Morde turned again to rumor. The first story of Ciudad Blanca came from a man ...
( Category: Travel Writing December 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 1970-12-31 | Author:Richard Maury

Quite suddenly the bell sounds – and he awakes. Midnight already! Half asleep, he feels for the bell-clapper over the bunk, striking an answer before turning up the wick and ...
( Category: Travel December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 1999-12-31 | Author:Tarquin Hall

Had the sacrifice been worth it, I asked. “Oh, don’t know about sacrifice,” he replied, trying to make light of it. “Did what we had to do, really. But of ...
( Category: General December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2001-12-31 | Author:Will Randall

Wuni, leaning heavily on his stick, his pipe clenched firmly between his teeth, looked up at me as I studied it. “Mr Wu. He can help you but he won’t ...
( Category: Travel December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2000-12-31 | Author:Dorothy Ayers Counts & David R. Counts

Although the above exchange focussed on women’s lack of training in driving their rigs, inadequate initial preparation is not a gender issue. It may be a problem for many RVers. ...
( Category: Automotive December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 1969-12-31 | Author:Nicholas Tomalin & Ron Hall

ENJOYED ROUND THE HORN SAILING TOWARDS TRINIDAD WITH LAST SOUTHEAST TRADE AND BRAZIL CURRENT Hallworth rightly worked out that ‘round the Horn sailing’ meant round-the-Horn-type sailing. And he realised that ...
( Category: Narratives December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-31 | Author:Geoff Nicholson

I don’t know that the guy yelling at me was a freak, but I did keep my head down and continued walking at a brisk New York pace all the ...
( Category: Adventure December 8,2014 )