Travel Writing
epub |eng | 2015-06-11 | Author:Lonely Planet

SNAKE KARMA LINDA WATANABE MCFERRIN Linda Watanabe McFerrin has been travelling since she was two and writing about it since she was six. A poet, travel writer, novelist and contributor ...
( Category: Literary & Religious June 12,2015 )
epub |eng, eng | 2013-03-28 | Author:Aaron Barlow

After graduation from New York University, Eric Stone taught ESL/ESOL in China, Brazil and throughout New York City. He then joined the Peace Corps, launching and managing an HIV/AIDS, malaria ...
( Category: Volunteer Work June 12,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2001-01-15 | Author:V. S. Naipaul

‘Savi, what you drinking?’ ‘Ovaltine.’ ‘Anand, what you drinking?’ ‘Ovaltine.’ ‘It nice?’ ‘Very nice.’ ‘Ma, Savi and Anand drinking Ovaltine. Their pappa give it to them.’ ‘Well, let me tell ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Redmond O'Hanlon

SOMEONE TURNED the light on; Sean had turned the light on: “Up ye get, boys! Ye’ve had a whole eight hours! And the storm’s gone—there’s yer heavy swell up there ...
( Category: Oceanography June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2006-06-12 | Author:Troost, J. Maarten [Troost, J. Maarten]

I HAD ALWAYS BEEN FOND OF NATURE. PROVOCATIVE AND outlandish as that might seem, it’s true. That fondness, however, didn’t mean I had any great desire to climb a twenty-five-thousand-foot ...
( Category: General June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2008-07-07 | Author:Troost, J. Maarten [Troost, J. Maarten]

There are typhoons and there are super typhoons. Typhoon Chancu was only the second super typhoon to ever be recorded in the South China Sea. And somehow, I had managed ...
( Category: General June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-07-08 | Author:Chuck Palahniuk

(a postcard from 1991) When I first got beat up, Gina asked if any of the attackers was named David. She was blaming everything on what she called "the Curse ...
( Category: State & Local June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2008-01-15 | Author:Hooman Majd

The parade at the mosque continued. Different groups of men, sometimes even very young boys, were marching past me, each group headed by a flag bearer and each group stepping ...
( Category: Middle Eastern June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-01-02 | Author:Jamie Zeppa

It is too late for them to go home after, so they spend the night, sleeping on mats and quilts on the floor, covered with blankets and kiras and towels. ...
( Category: Travel June 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-20 | Author:Katie Lee

fresh pineapple-coconut martinis SERVES 4, WITH PINEAPPLE-INFUSED VODKA LEFT OVER By now we’ve all heard how good coconut water is for us: It’s hydrating, it has potassium, and so on. ...
( Category: Mid-Atlantic June 7,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ernest Hemingway

“A Good Country” (from Green Hills of Africa) It is easier to keep well in a good country by taking simple precautions than to pretend that a country which is ...
( Category: Hunting June 6,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-06-04 | Author:William Dean Howells [ Howells, William Dean]

II. Entering at the enchanted portal of the Villa P –, we found ourselves in a realm of wonder. It was our misfortune not to see the magician who compelled ...
( Category: General June 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-13 | Author:Farley Mowat

We were then travelling at about four knots, which is no great speed, but that shark was very nearly an immovable object and when we hit him, just behind the ...
( Category: General June 5,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-01-13 | Author:Farley Mowat

The boys also took us to visit the graveyard on the hill in the centre of the Point. Standing among the wooden markers we could look up and down the ...
( Category: Arts & Literature June 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-05 | Author:Phil Harwood

*** As the next section of rapids had a bit of a reputation, I hired a guy with a motorbike and we went off downstream in search of a fisherman ...
( Category: Travel June 3,2015 )