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Fingers in the Sparkle Jar by Chris Packham
epub |eng | | Author:Chris Packham

5 My Piece of Sky The Egg April 1973 THE JACKDAWS BLEW off the field like bonfire ash, freckling grey into the bone-white sky, breaking down to the roofs, catching ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists August 22,2016 )
Civilization Before Greece and Rome by H. W. F. Saggs
epub |eng | | Author:H. W. F. Saggs

The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers; skilled men of Zemer were in you, they were your pilots. The elders of Gebal [Byblos, north of Beirut] and her ...
( Category: World August 13,2016 )
The Wonder Trail by Steve Hely
epub |eng | 2016-05-25 | Author:Steve Hely

The Darién Gap You could drive all the way from California to Chile, and on paved road, too—well, mostly paved road. I read reports that it gives out a bit ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 11,2016 )
The Humorless Ladies of Border Control: Touring the Punk Underground from Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar by Franz Nicolay
epub |eng | 2016-08-01 | Author:Franz Nicolay [Nicolay, Franz]

For three of the past four days, I had awoken to blizzard conditions, as the snow I outran the day before caught up with me in the morning. This morning, ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 10,2016 )
South of the Yangtze by Bill Porter
epub |eng | 2016-07-14 | Author:Bill Porter

Artisan carving an inkstone After visiting the workshops, we finally went into the factory store. The supervisor told us that most of the designs were developed by the factory but ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 3,2016 )
Walking the Kiso Road by William Scott Wilson
epub |eng | | Author:William Scott Wilson

A NUMBER OF YEARS LATER, I was back in the Kiso and once again staying at the Sarashina-ya. There was a knock on the door of my room announcing dinner, ...
( Category: Travel July 27,2016 )
The Wonder of It All by Yosemite Conservancy
epub |eng | 2016-02-13 | Author:Yosemite Conservancy

Great Smoky Mountains National Park A Good Old-Fashioned Mountain Rescue Jane Marie Allen Farmer In the 1980s, cell phones were nonexistent, which meant rescue could be a long way off. ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists July 24,2016 )
On Trails by Robert Moor
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Moor

* * * I. “Champion,” also called “champaign,” is an antiquated term for open, level country. It has the same root as “campus.” II. When the Cherokees were forced to ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays July 19,2016 )
The Silk Road by Bill Porter
epub |eng | 2016-01-13 | Author:Bill Porter

Kazak hosts at Lake of Heaven The lake was formed long ago by landslides that blocked the only side not hemmed in by the Tienshan Mountains. Then, five years before ...
( Category: General July 11,2016 )
The Light Garden of the Angel King by Peter Levi
epub |eng | 2014-07-09 | Author:Peter Levi [Peter Levi]

There are twenty-five lines of this inscription, written with incised guidelines on a smooth-sided, rough-backed slab of white limestone. The script is based on Greek with some special Kushan characteristics, ...
( Category: Travel July 10,2016 )
My Couch is Your Couch by Gabriele Galimberti
epub |eng | 2015-08-31 | Author:Gabriele Galimberti

MUMBAI * * * INDIA DHARMESH KURIAN, 18 Dharmesh is a couchsurfer who lives in a house too small to host anyone. Despite this fact, he wants very badly to ...
( Category: Photo Essays July 4,2016 )
My Holiday in North Korea by Wendy E. Simmons
epub |eng | | Author:Wendy E. Simmons [Simmons, Wendy E.]

Inside, Non-General explains the history of the room as Fresh Handler translates. Older Handler calls all the shots, including who gets to translate for me when, and it’s Fresh Handler’s ...
( Category: Travel Writing June 28,2016 )
A Colossal Wreck by Alexander Cockburn
epub |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Alexander Cockburn

What happened to the loofa? Maybe Abe Foxman called him on the other line to warn about “going Arab on us.” And what is O’Reilly planning to do with the ...
( Category: History & Theory June 28,2016 )
The Trouble with Tom by Paul Collins
epub |eng | 2010-06-27 | Author:Paul Collins

Comfort for the Ruptured "YEAH? " HE SAYS. It's bitter cold out on Twenty-eighth Street, and the Chinese truck driver stops and looks warily at his overloaded produce truck, and ...
( Category: United States June 28,2016 )
Antonio Carluccio by Antonio Carluccio
epub |eng | 2012-07-29 | Author:Antonio Carluccio [Carluccio, Antonio]

Scaloppine al Marsala secco Veal escalopes with Marsala The glorification of the Marsala wine from Sicily is reflected not only in the classic dessert zabaglione but also in this delicious ...
( Category: Regional & International June 27,2016 )

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