Travel Writing
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-07-06 | Author:Laurie Lee [Lee, Laurie]

A Wake in Warsaw In the month of their worst weather – and the month also of their most melancholy historical memories – the Poles were paying tribute to Adam ...
( Category: Essays January 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2004-06-23 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

CHAPTER XL. Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean. —Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar. The next picture in my mind is Government House, on Malabar Point, with the ...
( Category: Travel January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Edith Wharton

* * * VI THE SAADIAN TOMBS On one of the last days of our stay in Marrakech we were told, almost mysteriously, that permission was to be given us ...
( Category: Travel January 21,2016 )
mobi |eng | 1996-01-02 | Author:Simon Winchester

Mao Zedong was a very considerable poet – in output, if not always in quality – and he was prone to memorialize what he regarded as his greater achievements with ...
( Category: General January 13,2016 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lawrence Durrell [Durrell, Lawrence]

Bernard Spencer 1964 BERNARD SPENCER’S[1] SUDDEN DEATH recently snapped a link which was first forged in 1938 when he arrived in Greece to work for the British Council in Salonika. ...
( Category: General January 12,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-05-30 | Author:London, Jack [London, Jack]

CHAPTER XI The Nature Man I FIRST met him on Market Street in San Francisco. It was a wet and drizzly afternoon, and he was striding along, clad solely in ...
( Category: Classics January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-03 | Author:Dervla Murphy [Dervla Murphy]

Skardu – 23 January When I woke last night to use our ‘commode’ (that same bucket in which water is fetched during the day: of such unsavoury details is domestic ...
( Category: Travel January 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-02 | Author:Fredrik Sjoberg [Sjoberg, Fredrik]

Klyuchevskaya rages upward towards the sky. It’s as if she knows herself to be the world’s greatest volcano and therefore longs to reach still higher; as if she were furious ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders December 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-19 | Author:Tim Flannery [Flannery, Tim]

CHAPTER 9 Probing towards the Summit Prior to my arrival in Honiara I’d written to David Roe, an archaeologist working in the Solomon Islands who’d excavated a cave north of ...
( Category: Mammals December 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:Andrew Knapp [Knapp, Andrew]

Relaxing at Black Fox Lake off the Trans-Canada Highway in Ontario; at the University of Winnipeg; the final leg of our trip MANITOBA, ONTARIO, AND HOME Back in my native ...
( Category: Plants & Animals December 20,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-08-06 | Author:Mary-Lou Weisman [Weisman, Mary-Lou]

No sooner is the boat in the water than Larry refocuses all of his considerable type A talents on controlling this adventure. He ties things down. He pushes off. He ...
( Category: Travel December 18,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Lonely Planet

5Eating For the best choice of bars and restaurants, head for the tangle of streets surrounding the central main square. Casa RamónCANARIAN€ (Calle Esteban de Ponte 4; mains €6-8; h1-8pm ...
( Category: General December 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-09 | Author:Matt Lewis

14 15:55 SATURDAY, 6 JUNE 1998 Where were the officers of the Sudur Havid as we were abandoning? I thought someone would yell orders, co-ordinate a safe evacuation, act as ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers December 14,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rebecca Otowa

For Japanese people, the time of the cherry blossoms is evocative of new beginnings in all walks of life. Children in brand new school uniforms and gleaming bags walk on ...
( Category: General December 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Tapon, Francis [Tapon, Francis]

What Serbia Can Teach Us Have a two-hour coffee with your friends. It helps to have a 20 percent unemployment rate, but even if it were two percent, Serbians would ...
( Category: Travel December 12,2015 )