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Getting Stoned with Savages by J. Maarten Troost
epub |eng | 2006-06-12 | Author:J. Maarten Troost

IHAD 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 mountain—where’s ...
( Category: General December 27,2014 )
The Last Man in Russia by Oliver Bullough
epub |eng | | Author:Oliver Bullough [Bullough, Oliver]

WINTER 8 It’s like a plague A Russian train in winter is a far better place than the same train in summer. With snow and the long dark night outside, ...
( Category: Christianity December 27,2014 )
The Turk Who Loved Apples: And Other Tales of Losing My Way Around the World by Gross Matt
azw3 |eng | 2013-04-22 | Author:Gross, Matt [Gross, Matt]

In March 1997, the Viet Nam News sent me to Phnom Penh to cover the First Biennial Southeast Asian Film Festival, a grand series of new releases from all over ...
( Category: Adventure December 27,2014 )
Sihpromatum - Backpacks and Bra Straps by Grace Savannah
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Grace, Savannah [Grace, Savannah]

School-To-Go 24 “With the dunes being such a bust, we’ve actually done nothing here except eat,” Ammon had said the night before, “so I say we should just keep moving ...
( Category: Memoirs December 27,2014 )
A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg by Tim Cahill
epub |eng | 2011-02-01 | Author:Tim Cahill [Cahill, Tim]

Things began looking up the day before the eclipse. A slight northerly shift in the jet stream and the storm riding in on it doubled the chances of clear weather ...
( Category: Adventure December 27,2014 )
Casting Off by Emma Bamford
epub |eng | | Author:Emma Bamford [Bamford, Emma]

The weather in the UK, of course, has a lot of to do with it, but when you see bikers in England they are invariably clad head to toe in ...
( Category: Sailing December 27,2014 )
Pecked to Death by Ducks
epub |eng | 2011-03-08 | Author:Tim Cahill [Cahill, Tim]

As in Europe, there are some few people familiar with the origin and meaning of the ancient rituals. I. Ketut Suwena was one. He was fifty-two, the klian, or headman, ...
( Category: Adventure December 27,2014 )
The Wet and the Dry by Lawrence Osborne
epub |eng | 2013-07-22 | Author:Lawrence Osborne [Osborne, Lawrence]

Nowhere in Pakistan is this more evident than in the one place where it’s legal to have a nip of Satanic distillate: the Murree Brewery in Rawalpindi. The brewery, for ...
( Category: Culinary December 27,2014 )
Little Ship of Fools by Charles Wilkins
epub |eng | 2013-09-14 | Author:Charles Wilkins

12 ACCORDING TO THE ADVENTURER Dervla Murphy, whose books are an all-but-howling subversion of common contemporary travel practices, the value and meaning of journeying are drastically eroded, if not destroyed, ...
( Category: Adventure December 27,2014 )
The White Masai by Corinne Hofmann
epub |eng | 2011-12-26 | Author:Corinne Hofmann [Corinne Hofmann]

Farewell And Welcome I arrive at the airport heavily laden. Leaving my mother is particularly hard for me this time because I don’t know when I’ll be back. On June ...
( Category: Travel December 27,2014 )
Following Fish: Travels Around the Indian Coast by Samanth Subramanian
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-15 | Author:Samanth Subramanian

I had come to Mangalore expecting to fall completely in love with its fish curry, but I lusted instead, for much of my time there, after another dish, before I ...
( Category: Travel December 27,2014 )
A Fork In The Road: Tales of Food, Pleasure and Discovery On The Road (Lonely Planet Travel Literature) by Lonely Planet
epub |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:Lonely Planet [Planet, Lonely]

A few days later I got back to Rio feeling less than ordinary, and wearing a wild rash. The doctor looked me over. ‘Ahh,’ he mused, ‘you have been bitten ...
( Category: Essays December 27,2014 )
The Thong Also Rises by Jennifer L. Leo
epub |eng | | Author:Jennifer L. Leo [Leo, Jennifer L.]

ANASTASIA M. ASHMAN My Husband Is Lost Without Me The master of the road takes a new mistress. MOST OF THE TIME MY HUSBAND AND I WORK AS A complementary ...
( Category: Essays December 27,2014 )
Freya Stark by Caroline Moorehead
epub |eng | 2014-12-26 | Author:Caroline Moorehead [Caroline Moorehead]

PERSUASION, NOT PROPAGANDA CHAPTER SIX Freya’s talents were now widely recognised to lie in propaganda, or, as she preferred to call it, persuasion. Among the generals she had become a ...
( Category: Travel December 27,2014 )
Steinbeck by John Steinbeck
epub |eng | | Author:John Steinbeck

In Adlai Stevenson’s first campaign for the Presidency Steinbeck wrote scores of speeches to be delivered by supporters at rallies in the eastern half of the United States. This letter ...
( Category: Authors December 27,2014 )

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