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The Innocent Anthropologist by Nigel Barley
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Nigel Barley [Nigel Barley]

9 Ex Africa semper quid nasty Any African hospital is a shock by Western standards. There is nothing here to remind us of the hushed tones and pastel hues of ...
( Category: Native American Studies March 1,2016 )
The Great Walk of China by Graham Earnshaw
epub |eng | | Author:Graham Earnshaw

As I carried on towards the town, a man rode up to me on a motorcycle and stopped. His name was Mr. Yang, he was well-dressed, and told me he ...
( Category: Travel March 1,2016 )
Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2012-03-15 | Author:Tim Mackintosh-Smith [Mackintosh-Smith, Tim]

A miniature from the fifteenth-century Livre des merveilles shows the fantasy version of Masyaf, a turreted enclosure set among tusk-shaped mountains. Outside, human-headed deer prance or flop on the grass ...
( Category: Travel March 1,2016 )
The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing by Thompson Carl
epub |eng | 2016-02-14 | Author:Thompson, Carl

Conclusion While, in sum, the narratives of discoverers and explorers point to a dominant discourse of conquest and appropriation, individually they reveal a variety of opinions, impressions and representational modes. ...
( Category: British & Irish February 29,2016 )
Daily Life in Turkmenbashy's Golden Age by Sam Tranum
epub |eng | 2010-09-25 | Author:Sam Tranum [Tranum, Sam]

19. My Three-Part Plan In the United States it would have taken me a week to put together an Internet center. One day driving around strip malls, shopping at hardware, ...
( Category: Asia February 15,2016 )
Barn Find Road Trip by Tom Cotter
epub |eng | 2015-02-14 | Author:Tom Cotter

As we were snooping around, owner Vic Solomon arrived back. He was a dead-ringer for actor Peter Falk. Vic explained that the building had once been home to Wilson Chevrolet. ...
( Category: Travel Writing February 15,2016 )
Zen and the Art of Donkey Maintenance by Robert Crisp
epub |eng | 2015-02-14 | Author:Robert Crisp

Chapter 22 Eat, Drink and Be Merry There was a small glass before me containing half an inch of water. In a few moments it would become probably the most ...
( Category: Travel February 15,2016 )
The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Eric Weiner [WEINER, ERIC]

I had never met a Heathen before. I didn’t know what to expect, so I decided to do what journalists call reporting, academics call research, and normal people call reading. ...
( Category: Travel February 13,2016 )
The Unconquered by Wallace Scott
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-18 | Author:Wallace, Scott [Wallace, Scott]

CHAPTER 16 Ours Guns, Our Germs, and Our Steel THE MATIS LED THE WAY forward. Suddenly they pulled up in their tracks and pointed ahead, toward a cluster of trees ...
( Category: Brazil February 6,2016 )
The Mad Feast by Matthew Gavin Frank
epub |eng | 2015-02-02 | Author:Matthew Gavin Frank

Deep-Dish Pizza Here, at the Medici on 57th, our deepest dish pizza is our PAN pizza. We make the dough daily, from scratch, in our bakery next door. The dough ...
( Category: U.S. Regional February 3,2016 )
The Last Volcano by John Dvorak
epub |eng | | Author:John Dvorak

The role of gases in volcanic eruptions was self-evident to anyone who has seen an eruption. Lava froths furiously and fountains during eruptions, causing huge plumes of gas to rise ...
( Category: Volcanology February 1,2016 )
Drive Nacho Drive: A Journey from the American Dream to the End of the World by Brad Van Orden & Sheena Van Orden
epub |eng | 2014-01-13 | Author:Brad Van Orden & Sheena Van Orden [Van Orden, Brad]

Option #1: Bring our failed transmission to an inept local mechanic to be rebuilt, locally, and ineptly When we got back to the farm and got settled in, I took ...
( Category: Adventure January 29,2016 )
927 Days of Summer: Around the World in a VW Van (Drive Nacho Drive) by Brad Van Orden & Sheena Van Orden
epub |eng | 2015-05-07 | Author:Brad Van Orden & Sheena Van Orden [Van Orden, Brad]

39 Annapurna Trail to Bragha Sheena Before we left home I had met exactly one person who had hiked in the Himalayas. That was Baroon, our dear friend and the ...
( Category: Adventure January 29,2016 )
Down to the Sea in Ships by Horatio Clare
epub |eng | 2013-11-06 | Author:Horatio Clare [Horatio Clare]

14 October Early bed under glittering stars, then woke at 4.45, so got up. Others were up too. Joel said: ‘Thank God for the stabilisers! If they weren’t out, in ...
( Category: Travel January 26,2016 )
Exploring China by Ching-He Huang
epub |eng | | Author:Ching-He Huang

Sweet and sour West Lake steamed carp I first tried this dish when I visited Hangzhou in China years ago and I loved the simplicity of it. Traditionally, carp is ...
( Category: General January 24,2016 )

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