Travel Writing
epub |eng | 2015-05-07 | Author:Tom Fort [Tom Fort]

Sidmouth In 1933 Sidmouth Urban District Council rejected a proposal to build a holiday camp at Salcombe Regis on the grounds that holiday camps and Sidmouth did not go together. ...
( Category: Travel December 9,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lawrence Durrell [Lawrence Durrell]

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: British & Irish December 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-02 | Author:Elaine Sciolino [Sciolino, Elaine]

I NEVER WOULD HAVE talked about religion in my proper, refined neighborhood off the rue du Bac. But along the rue des Martyrs, religion is a natural part of life. ...
( Category: General December 2,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-02 | Author:Pilkington, Karl & Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant [Pilkington, Karl]

Woke with a sore arse after all the horse-riding and also from the spicy rabbit I ate yesterday. I just noticed the cleaner has made a swan again out of ...
( Category: Travel November 30,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-13 | Author:Mandeville, John & Anthony Bale [Mandeville, John]

16 THE KINGDOM OF MANZI ONE who travels from this land eastwards by the Indian Ocean must voyage for many days until they arrive at the kingdom of Manzi;* this ...
( Category: Medieval November 29,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Mark Tully

In the newspaper article that first inspired me to set out on my journey to Ireland, John O’Donohue called for ‘prophetic reflection’. He had also described his country as having ...
( Category: India & South Asia November 26,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Lawrence Durrell

* Cypress Handbook, 1919. Chapter Eight: The Winds of Promise The fox in her sleep dreams always of chickens. If the baby doesn’t cry, Mother won’t suckle. One does not ...
( Category: Travel November 26,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-03-29 | Author:Thomas, Rosie [Thomas, Rosie]

Chinese contrasts: Pagodas and the blue wagons that clogged every highway. Police and army personnel monitored every metre of progress across China. Wherever we stopped, there was a rush to ...
( Category: Travel Writing November 12,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew McCarthy

After five days of constant anxiety, we are back in a familiar world of snow and gravity. The storm builds and so does a sense of camaraderie. A skier from ...
( Category: Anthologies November 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-29 | Author:Lorna Hendry

After dropping Nannette in Broome with promises that we’d be in Darwin within a few weeks, we headed down one of the country’s classic 4WD routes. The Gibb River Road, ...
( Category: Travel November 12,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:James Chilton

The route plan of Aero Argentinas’ in-flight magazine still laid Argentinian claim not only to ‘Islas Malvinas’ but also South Georgia and The South Sandwich Islands. The TV national weather ...
( Category: Travel November 12,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-05-31 | Author:Kesey, Roy [Kesey, Roy]

Probably Somewhere I ROLL UP A newspaper and head to the park. It’s raining hard and the wind is blowing branches off the trees. Pretty soon the paper goes to ...
( Category: Short Stories November 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1905-12-31 | Author:Rudyard Kipling [Kipling, Rudyard]

A British-Roman Song (A.D. 406) My father’s father saw it not, And I, belike, shall never come To look on that so-holy spot— The very Rome— Crowned by all Time, ...
( Category: British & Irish October 28,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2015-10-07 | Author:Bill Bryson

Chapter 14 East Anglia I ON A LOVELY bright summer’s morning, I was walking the Norfolk coast path between Holkham and Blakeney when I came round a bend and found ...
( Category: General October 24,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-10-20 | Author:Pamuk, Orhan [Pamuk, Orhan]

12 * * * In Tarlabaşı The Happiest Man in the World AT NIGHT, Mevlut and Rayiha slept in the same bed as their two daughters, Fatma and Fevziye. The ...
( Category: Family Saga October 22,2015 )