Travel Writing
epub |eng | | Author:Elena Kostioukovitch

TYPICAL DISHES OF LAZIO Hot Antipasti Rice croquettes (arancini), rice balls (supplì) filled with meat, entrails, and mozzarella. The name supplì comes from the French word surprise. At times they ...
( Category: Italian January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-28 | Author:Rory Maclean

18. Eve of Destruction The women crouched around the spring, their veils cast back, their men in the fields. Plum and wild apple trees grew around the shallow pool. The ...
( Category: General January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alec Waugh

A Beachcomber from THE SUNLIT CARIBBEAN Written in 1938 I Was met on the landing-stage by the kind of chauffeur— scrubby, unshaven, swarthy—to whom several months of West Indian travel ...
( Category: Travel Writing January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-30 | Author:Rory Maclean

SIX Within, Without HER ROOM WAS BARE. Its bald white walls retained no history. It was a place without a past, where games began but life could not be contained. ...
( Category: Travel January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-28 | Author:Matt Weiland

Suki says a girl in Bosnia sent him a letter after reading Tom Sawyer. “Dear Editor,” the letter began, “I am a Bosnian girl who has never seen the sea. ...
( Category: State & Local January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:Ilgunas, Ken [Ilgunas, Ken]

Meanwhile, Josh, over the course of my six months in Mississippi, grew more and more disenchanted with his new job at Westwood College. He had the title of admissions representative, ...
( Category: Memoirs January 25,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert D. Kaplan

CHAPTER NINE Transylvanian Voices It is on the plain that the regime really sank its teeth into the population. As in the Middle Ages, the mountains provided a measure of ...
( Category: General January 23,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-09-03 | Author:French, Patrick [French, Patrick]

You could see the history of Tibet through a family, by looking at the way its influence unfolded and retracted over two hundred years. Reincarnation has long been intertwined with ...
( Category: Travel January 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:William Dalrymple [Dalrymple, William]

The next evening at ten o’clock I again made my way along the dusty, pilgrim-clogged streets of Madurai, and through the labyrinth of horn-hooting, rickshaw-squealing lanes leading up to the ...
( Category: General January 10,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-19 | Author:Paulo Coelho

Therefore, let Love in. Remember: this is a matter of life and death. There is no point my standing here and talking about Love if I am incapable of Love ...
( Category: Catholicism January 6,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-01-02 | Author:Timothy Egan

A FEW YEARS into his project, Turnbull’s ranch was crowded with birds—speedy, hyperkinetic, somewhat neurotic, exceedingly horny— and Highlands Ranch was crowded with people, who were doing their share for ...
( Category: State & Local January 6,2015 )
mobi | | | Author:Robert M. Pirsig

19 A mat of sunlit pine needles by my face slowly tells me where I am and helps dispel a dream. In the dream I was standing in a white-painted ...
( Category: Philosophy January 6,2015 )
mobi | | | Author:Howard Marks

( Category: Crime & Criminals January 6,2015 )
mobi | | | Author:Stephen Fry

( Category: Actors & Entertainers January 6,2015 )