Travel Writing
epub |eng | 2008-09-29 | Author:Robert D. Kaplan

Army Maj. Larry Smith of Savannah, Illinois, whom I had met at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, had lured me to Nepal—something that was easy ...
( Category: Military June 14,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-12-19 | Author:Charles Montagu Doughty [Doughty, Charles Montagu]

SHEYKH NASIR ES-SM1RY. 351 among them, that Ibn Saud would withdraw from these parts ; and then would Ibn Kashid return home. Their parleying had not been without some glorious ...
( Category: Asia June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-07 | Author:Julie Angus

The deck of the rowboat, showing the two rowing seats, circular hatches, and bow storage compartment. PHOTO: COLIN ANGUS Showing off a dorado caught mid-Atlantic. PHOTO: COLIN ANGUS A typical ...
( Category: Travel Writing June 14,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-05-26 | Author:Michael Palin [Palin, Michael]

Day Forty-Five TlRELLI The Sahara is officially said to begin north of latitude 16. The Pays de Dogon (it sounds so much better in French) is around 14 degrees north, ...
( Category: Africa June 14,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:William H. Prescott

1 Bernal Diaz, Hist. de la Conquista, cap. 96. 2 Ibid., cap. 97. 3 Gomara, Crónica, cap. 84.—Herrera, Hist. General, dec. 2, lib. 8, cap. 4. 4 Ibid., dec. 2, ...
( Category: Americas June 14,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-07-10 | Author:Rosemary Mahoney [MAHONEY, ROSEMARY]

When I woke the next morning, Amr was sitting propped against the mast in the withering sunlight with a doleful look on his face. “Rose,” he said. “What is it, ...
( Category: Travel Writing June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 1989-05-26 | Author:Michael Palin [Palin, Michael]

Day 42 5 November At 5.30 Ron wakes me with a coffee. Counting six days pre-filming in London this is our 48th day together and our last. Nigel, Julian and ...
( Category: Travel Writing June 14,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-11 | Author:Lynn Schooler

Chapter 15 Boulder Hell. It was a good description. It seems like it took hours of stepping carefully from stone to stone, with the metal tips of my hiking poles ...
( Category: Biological Sciences June 14,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1992-05-26 | Author:Michael Palin [Palin, Michael]

DAY 73: Khartoum Still no sign of the permits we need for the journey south. Pass the time with a visit to the camel market, out in the desert. Huge ...
( Category: Travel Writing June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-06-09 | Author:David Shalleck

I arranged the canapés in concentric circles on the silver tray we always used for cocktail service. I wanted the small, handmade savory pastries to suggest the artisanal effort by ...
( Category: Travel Writing June 14,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-06-06 | Author:Grotenstein, Jonathan & Jones, Dhani [Grotenstein, Jonathan]

Life is a karmic wheel. No matter how much things seem the same, we keep evolving. Yes, I Can Swim (Australia) SURF LIFESAVING Australia has a reputation as rugged country, ...
( Category: Specialty Travel June 13,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-05-26 | Author:Michael Palin [Palin, Michael]

Day Sixty : Tingri to Rongbuk Though perfectly comfortable in my congenial little room, sleep was light and fleeting and broken by twinges of headache and nausea. The zero temperatures ...
( Category: Travel Writing June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-29 | Author:Mike Parker [Parker, Mike]

The controversial Absolut vodka ad, showing Mexico in its pre-1848 borders 5. THE POWER MAP So Geographers, in Afric-maps, With savage-pictures fill their gaps; And o’er unhabitable downs Place elephants ...
( Category: Travel Writing June 13,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-12 | Author:Maslin, Jamie [Maslin, Jamie]

CHAPTER ELEVEN Mullah Madness “Jamie, we’re gonna have to get a taxi instead,” Leyla turned to me and said from the back of Pedram’s car as we careened through the ...
( Category: Asia June 13,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-02-16 | Author:Shakespeare, Nicholas & Chatwin, Bruce [Shakespeare, Nicholas]

To Sunil Sethi L.6 Albany | Piccadilly | London | 29 April 1980 Dearest S., I have always wanted to have a letter from Macao: so the crumbling green portals ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 13,2017 )