Travel Writing
epub |eng | 2015-10-12 | Author:Dominic Ziegler

CHAPTER 9 52°21.7' N 127°31.0' E The narrative of the European conquest and settlement of new lands comes everywhere now with acknowledgment of guilt and open shows of contrition. Except ...
( Category: General April 25,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2007-04-17 | Author:Francisco Goldman

The attorney general finally agreed to speak to President Portillo the next day, during their weekly Thursday meeting. Edgar Gutiérrez, now a member of Portillo’s government, told me what happened. ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides April 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-20 | Author:Foster, Nigel [Foster, Nigel]

Barges along the canal, bright with geraniums, offer cool beer. The waterway widens and there are white water-lily flowers, great green floating leaves and green beer cans. There are also ...
( Category: Kayaking April 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Charles Darwin

Trochilus Forficatus Hacienda, condor, cactus, etc. Cactus; Cereus Peruviana Chilian miner Cordilleras from Santiago de Chile Chilian spurs, stirrup, etc. 1 Caldcieugh, in Philosoph. Transact. for 1836. 2 Annales des ...
( Category: Travel April 20,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-16 | Author:Ken McAdams

TWENTY DOWN A ROAD LESS TRAVELED THE STATUE of Liberty, designed by the Frenchman Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, was dedicated to the homeless huddled masses yearning to be free. It didn’t escape ...
( Category: General April 17,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-15 | Author:Les Powles

Chapter Seven Screams in the Rigging South Atlantic – Indian Ocean September – October 1980 Thursday, September 30th. Our noon sight showed we were about to enter the Roaring Forties, ...
( Category: Travel April 16,2016 )
epub |eng | 2004-04-13 | Author:Barry Unsworth

Aptera: a Roman cistern We searched for traces of fresco painting on the patches of plaster still remaining on the ruinous walls of the Byzantine monastery dedicated to St. John ...
( Category: General April 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-31 | Author:Pete Jordan

12 Give My Father’s Bike Back: The Occupation’s Legacy During the final days of the war in Europe, Hitler—the “chief robber,” as one Dutchman who’d lost his bike to German ...
( Category: Cycling April 14,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Rick Antonson

René-August Caillié, the French explorer, has been called “one of the oddest figures in the history of travel.” He arrived in Timbuktu in 1828, disguised as an Arab, and became ...
( Category: General April 12,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Simon Winchester

9 A New Great Wall We decided to travel the next short section upriver by plane—if only to experience the underside of Chinese civil aviation. It so happens that the ...
( Category: General April 12,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-29 | Author:Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Slave quarters at Jefferson Davis’s plantation, circa 1860–1870. Photograph. Library of Congress. Inscribed on the front: “Sent Home by Elizabeth Findley Missionary to the freedmen” and on the back: “Graveyard ...
( Category: African-American Studies April 11,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Portillo [Portillo, Michael]

Reward and punishment aboard Trotsky’s train After the October 1917 revolution by Lenin and his Bolshevik forces, the so-called White Army that opposed them gathered, mostly in the south. In ...
( Category: Travel April 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-08 | Author:Charles H. Dyer [Dyer, Charles H.; Hatteberg, Gregory A.]

The spring of Harod, where Gideon chose his 300 men, flows from the base of Mount Gilboa into the Jezreel Valley Period of Conquest Joshua 17:16—God allotted the Valley of ...
( Category: General April 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-06 | Author:Perko, Tomislav

Soy Tommy de Croacia, necesito un poco dinero para comer. Gracias. I gave him a hug, being careful not to break any bones in his fragile body, took the guitar ...
( Category: Travel Writing April 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-27 | Author:Mark Beaumont [Beaumont, Mark]

Leg 3: Bangkok to Singapore 13 It was a restless flight. Trying to put the pent-up stresses of Calcutta behind me, I dozed briefly. Another distraction was my neighbor. He ...
( Category: Cycling April 8,2016 )