Travel Writing
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Laurie Lee [Lee, Laurie]

5. Castillo of the Sugar Canes We had come down now to the warm south coast, to a small fishing village which I shall call Castillo – though this is ...
( Category: Political April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-11 | Author:Saroo Brierley

8. Resuming the Search By now, I should have been used to life’s many unexpected twists and turns. But things still manage to take me completely by surprise, and though ...
( Category: Australian April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Julie Ganz

PART TWO Hot ’N’ Cold I first visited Martinique at age 15, on a tropical interlude with my Swiss parents, and was instantly engulfed in the Caribbean breath. —SYLVIE BIGAR ...
( Category: Travel Writing April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-05 | Author:Walter Harris [Walter Harris]

CHAPTER TWO RAISULI was now completely outlawed. He lived in the fastness of his mountains, where the Sultan’s troops could never even attempt to penetrate. Thence he spread alarm right ...
( Category: Travel April 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-22 | Author:Norman Lewis [Lewis, Norman]

CHAPTER 9 THE COUNTRY WALK RECOMMENDED at the hospital had to be put off for a few days, for despite what was generally accepted as the collapse of the revolt, ...
( Category: Travel April 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-08 | Author:Ellie Bennett

At Carsphairn we took a break and had a look around the village churchyard. There was a memorial there to the McAdam family and a tablet commemorating John Louden McAdam, ...
( Category: Cycling April 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-30 | Author:Tim Moore [Tim Moore]

CHAPTER 12 I will never forget the day I climbed the Puy Mary. There were two of us on a fine day in May. We started in the sunshine and ...
( Category: Cycling April 4,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nick Middleton [Middleton, Nick]

H O T T E S T D a l l o l E t h i o p i a O N E ‘What is the purpose of your ...
( Category: Travel April 3,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Bruce Feiler

We entered Nebuchadnezzar II’s palace. Reconstructed walls of caramel-colored bricks climbed forty feet high, topped with hundreds of small pyramidal merlons. The walls were interrupted with elongated arches, more than ...
( Category: General March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 1999-09-01 | Author:Brian Keenan

Jorge and Eunie have a great house in a shady street just ten minutes’ drive from our apartment. It is quite a party with their children Martin, Santiago, Domingo and ...
( Category: Adventure March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-13 | Author:Miles Morland

*Kuhn, Loeb and J. P. Morgan were once the two dominant firms on Wall Street. In the first half of the twentieth century KL had transformed America. Two partners, Otto ...
( Category: Travel March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-25 | Author:Bill Porter

The Stone Forest of Lunan It was only 125 kilometers southeast of Kunming and was already becoming a major tourist destination. But its fame was not recent. Over 2,300 years ...
( Category: General March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Elizabeth Laird [Laird, Elizabeth]

The Wolayita region, which stretches east from Sidama, is one of the most thickly populated parts of the country, and overpopulation, along with the vagaries of an uncertain rainfall, has ...
( Category: Travel March 14,2016 )
mobi, pdf, epub |eng | 2008-05-29 | Author:Nathaniel Philbrick

On Friday, July 31, Reynolds was aboard the Vincennes, at anchor beside the Peacock off Vanua Levu, talking with William May. May was at work on a chart of the ...
( Category: Americas March 6,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-18 | Author:Alice Albinia [Albinia, Alice]

327 BCE ‘The Indus is bigger than any river in Europe…This was the river which Alexander crossed with his army, and so entered India.’ Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, c. 145 CE ...
( Category: Travel March 4,2016 )