Travel Writing
mobi |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Geert Mak

Chapter THIRTY-FOUR Leningrad ON DISPLAY IN ST PETERSBURG'S MUNICIPAL MUSEUM IS THE THIN, light-blue diary of eleven-year-old Tanya Savitsyeva. The only entries for 1941–2 are these: Zyenya died, 28 December, ...
( Category: Europe August 18,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew McCarthy

Everyone arrived amid a clamor of shouts and hugs. I hadn’t seen our daughter in a week and she’d grown. Whereas I had come in from New York, D and ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-08-18 | Author:George Saunders

THE ALL-AMERICAN MEXICAN CITY, OR THE ALL-MEXICAN AMERICAN CITY, WHATEVER Maybe you’ve heard some variant of the following: I have nothing against [Mexicans/immigrants/these people], but nowadays you go to [NAME ...
( Category: Humor August 18,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Terry Eagleton [Eagleton, Terry]

FOUR America the Dutiful A Very Fine American Unlike Americans, the British are a notoriously godless bunch. They treat their religion rather like alcohol. It is when religious faith starts ...
( Category: Social Sciences August 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-04 | Author:Bob Shacochis

Huevos Fritos This is a small story, inhumanly cruel, and it ends with a terrible howl. It takes place in a dark forest on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 17,2017 )
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 | 2012-06-05 | Author:Salma Abdelnour [Abdelnour, Salma]

On Christmas Day in Houston, my parents, my brother, Samir, my sister-in-law Laila, and I go for dinner at my uncle Kamal and aunt Diane’s house. My cousin Edward is ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-17 | Author:Bill Barich

MISO SOUP FOR breakfast. I recommend it as a remedy for too much Kopper Kettle. It came in powdered form in little sachets tucked in among the Lipton Tea and ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides August 17,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2006-04-15 | Author:Donald Richie [Richie, Donald]

Tamasaburo Bando He impersonates that male invention, feminity, and does it so well that only those seams which he wants to show are allowed to be visible. A man imitating ...
( Category: Photography & Video August 17,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tessa Hainsworth [Tessa Hainsworth]

At the post office in Morranport, Nell is threatening to retire again. 'Let the rightful owners come back and take over this place, it's theirs, in't? Travelling the world like ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-07 | Author:John Dummer

I swung round the other way and saw Reg had ducked down. 'Oi, oi! John, what brings you to this neck of the woods?' He had a manic grin on ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides 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 | 2011-07-20 | Author:Anna Nicholas

'What a waste!' she says sadly. We walk to the car where Alan is trying to squeeze Charlotte's three Louis Vuitton cases into the back of the Renault. 'Alan, you ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 17,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ivan Doig

Day Forty A silver-bright day. Air clear and cold, ready to crinkle like silk, and for the second night in a row frost has daubed its way all across the ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 17,2017 )
azw |eng | 2013-09-25 | Author:Clarkson, Jeremy [Clarkson, Jeremy]

Down periscope! I’ve found an airtight way to quit smoking Over the years, I’ve done pretty well all the 100 things you’re supposed to do before you die. I’ve vomited ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 17,2017 )