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A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg by Tim Cahill
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 )
Pecked to Death by Ducks
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 )
Little Ship of Fools by Charles Wilkins
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 )
Wild-From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
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 )
The Saga of Cimba by Richard Maury
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 )
To the Elephant Graveyard by Tarquin Hall
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 )
Solomon Time by Will Randall
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 )
The Strange Voyage of Donald Crowhurst by Nicholas Tomalin & Ron Hall
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 )
The Lost Art of Walking by Geoff Nicholson
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 )
Chasing Che by Patrick Symmes
epub |eng | 2011-07-12 | Author:Patrick Symmes [Symmes, Patrick]

Obviously, this was not Cuban Comandante Che Guevara writing, but an uncommitted observer, inspired more by basic hopes of justice and dignity—bread for the poor—than by specific plans for realizing ...
( Category: Adventure November 26,2014 )
The Routes of Man by Ted Conover
epub |eng | 2010-11-24 | Author:Ted Conover [Conover, Ted]

*Obadiah and Bradford are pseudonyms. *Nicolas and Mike were the only white people in the office. They appeared to hire people from across the spectrum of Kenya’s tribes and religions. ...
( Category: Adventure November 25,2014 )
Naked and Marooned by Ed Stafford
epub |eng | 2014-09-14 | Author:Ed Stafford

Chapter 4 SHELTER I’d never had to rely on a fire’s warmth for heat in the night before this project. On expeditions I had always had a hammock and a ...
( Category: Adventure November 23,2014 )
In Ethiopia with a Mule by Dervla Murphy
epub |eng | 2012-11-22 | Author:Dervla Murphy [Dervla Murphy]

This evening the Bank Director and the provincial Chief of Telecommunications took me to a tej-beit beyond the town centre. On our way we passed the market-place, where a public ...
( Category: Travel November 23,2014 )
Little Princes by Conor Grennan
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-31 | Author:Conor Grennan

Part IV INTO THE MOUNTAINS November 2006-December 2006 Five Farid and I both lived in Kathmandu now. I had my apartment, and Farid had taken a small room—a former pantry, ...
( Category: Child Abuse November 11,2014 )
Predators I Have Known by Alan Dean Foster
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-10 | Author:Alan Dean Foster [Foster, Alan Dean]

* * * Tanzania, August 1984 AS TANZANIA’S FIRST PRESIDENT, JULIUS Nyerere was admired by many, both inside Africa and out. Opinions regarding the rest of his government and many ...
( Category: Adventure November 11,2014 )

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