Specialty Travel
mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-02-09 | Author:Tom Thumb [Thumb, Tom]

Then he withdrew it with no loss of blood. Other tricks included needles being stuck through the cheeks and jaws, spikes hammered into the head with mallets until they could ...
( Category: Travel Writing September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-05 | Author:Gibbs M Smith

Powell’s roots began in Chicago, where Michael Powell, as a University of Chicago graduate student, opened his first bookstore in 1970. Encouraged by friends and professors, including novelist Saul Bellow, ...
( Category: Economics September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-05 | Author:Rick Steves & Gene Openshaw

Rothko, the previous century’s “last serious artist,” believed in the power of art to express the human spirit. When he found out that his nine large Seagram canvases were to ...
( Category: Europe September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-15 | Author:GAURAV PUNJ [PUNJ, GAURAV]

Like all remote Himalayan regions, Jaunsar-Bawar has been traditionally a very open and equal society. In fact, if we go by a few rituals, women hold a higher place in ...
( Category: World Literature September 6,2018 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2014-06-02 | Author:Martin Dugard

“Courage,” wrote the academic and theologian C. S. Lewis, “is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” Yet as much as ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers September 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-14 | Author:Marcello Di Cintio

In Raji Bathish’s ironic short story “Nakba Lite,” five young men decide to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the Nakba by collecting their families’ stories for inclusion on a “Nakba ...
( Category: Anthropology September 5,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lonely Planet

TOP EXPERIENCE Diving on Ko Pha-Ngan Everyone will tell you to go to nearby Ko Tao to learn to dive. But Ko Pha-Ngan enjoys a much quieter, more laid-back diving ...
( Category: Asia September 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-10 | Author:Andrea Neal

A wreath-laying ceremony is held every summer at the grave of President Benjamin Harrison to commemorate his August 20, 1833, birthday. Adjacent to the Harrisons is author/playwright Booth Tarkington, winner ...
( Category: United States September 2,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-01 | Author:Gary McCue

TO MENLUNGTSE BASE CAMP The trek to the Menlungtse base camp begins at the shang compound, where the road dead-ends. Although it’s only 1½ hours away, Chubar gompa (Isthmus monastery; ...
( Category: Hiking & Camping September 2,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ben Pester

A simple enough operation when put that way in writing, but in fact the occasion was not to be without its moments. Something had been intruding into my dreams as ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides August 31,2018 )
epub |eng | 2000-09-11 | Author:Trevor Pidgeon [Pidgeon, Trevor]

122 Brigade reported to 41st Division H.Q. that the tanks were safely in position by 3.20 a.m. but this was not Arnold’s recollection. As the dawn began to show the ...
( Category: Europe August 31,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-27 | Author:Michael P. Branch

WHY AM I, a confirmed desert rat, about to offer a paean to cutting trees—to cutting them first down and then up? The answer may be found in the intimate ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 29,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lonely Planet

( Category: United States August 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-31 | Author:Lonely Planet

© Reinhard Dirscherl | Alamy a South African dassie SOUTH WEST COAST PATH, UK England’s longest waymarked footpath, and the longest of the UK’s 16 National Routes, follows the beautiful ...
( Category: Hiking & Camping August 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-22 | Author:Dave Metz

NAKMAKTUAK PASS May 5, 2007, ninety-five miles past Ambler I hike hard and steady up the long, steep slope out of the serenity of the Ambler River basin. I creep ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides August 23,2018 )