Travel Writing
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-01-02 | Author:Alain De Botton [Botton, Alain De]
10. Towards the end of his life, his South American adventures long behind him, Humboldt complained, with a mixture of self-pity and pride, ‘People often say that I'm curious about ...
( Category:
Travel Writing
November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-20 | Author:Alain De Botton [Botton, Alain de]
Every skilful writer foregrounds notable aspects of experience, details that might otherwise be lost in the mass of data that continuously bathes our senses – and in so doing prompts ...
( Category:
Essays
November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-08 | Author:Carey Rockwell [Rockwell, Carey]
* * * * * "We've got to have that triple vacuum tube," declared Roger. "That's the only thing that will transmit a voice quickly back to Earth from this ...
( Category:
Hard Science Fiction
November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-06-12 | Author:J. Maarten Troost [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
November 11,2014 )
epub | | 2009-12-25 | Author:Stevenson, Robert Louis [Stevenson, Robert Louis]
Die Denkschrift Die letzten Worte des Segens waren noch kaum gesprochen, da hatte mich Stuart schon am Arme gepackt. Wir waren die ersten, die Kirche zu verlassen, und er trieb ...
( Category:
Classics
November 6,2014 )
epub |deu | 2013-09-19 | Author:Johann Gottfried Seume [Seume, Johann Gottfried]
So singt Asmus den ersten Mai in Wandsbeck; so kann ich doch wohl vier Wochen früher, den ersten April, in Syrakus singen; so froh bin ich, ob ich gleich vor ...
( Category:
Travel Writing
November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:Hoare, Philip [Hoare, Philip]
Up on the rocky headland that overlooks this spectacle, I sit alongside Marcelo on a wooden stool in his concrete cell. Silently, we watch the waves unroll. A few moments ...
( Category:
Marine Life
November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-16 | Author:Irving, Washington [Irving, Washington]
THE BOOBY SQUIRE. A long time elapsed, said Buckthorne, without my receiving any accounts of my cousin and his estate. Indeed, I felt so much soreness on the subject, that ...
( Category:
Short Stories
November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ferguson, Will [Ferguson, Will]
6 THEY DROVE BY twice to check me out. They were laughing each time, and I wasn’t in a good mood. Like so many pairs of friends, one was short ...
( Category:
General
November 6,2014 )
epub |deu | 0101-01-01 | Author:Moore, Tim [Moore, Tim]
Ten The trouble with cycling up mountains is that — panniers or, as today, no panniers — after about four minutes, as soon as that first metallic-tasting, lactic gasp rasps ...
( Category:
General
November 6,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2004-11-05 | Author:Geert Mak [Mak, Geert]
Chapter THIRTY-FOUR Leningrad ON DISPLAY IN ST PETERSBURG'S MUNICIPAL MUSEUM IS THE THIN, light-blue diary of eleven-year-old Tanya Savitsyeva. The only entries for 1941–2 are these: Zyenya died, 28 December, ...
( Category:
General
November 6,2014 )
epub |deu | 1888-12-31 | Author:Fontane, Theodor [Fontane, Theodor]
So gibt sich die Havel bei Oranienburg, dem unsere heutige Wanderung gilt. Der Weg dahin führt uns, an Tegel vorbei, zunächst bis an den romantischen Sandkrug, wo die Stehkrippen von ...
( Category:
Travel Writing
November 6,2014 )
epub | | | Author:Brida
Bei ihrem nächsten Treffen mit Wicca musste sie ihr alles über die Stimme erzählen. Sie hatte alles im ›Buch der Schatten‹ aufgezeichnet, und Wicca war zufrieden. »Wessen Stimme war das?«, ...
( Category:
Wicca
November 6,2014 )
epub |deu | 2006-12-14 | Author:Hape Kerkeling [Kerkeling, Hape]
30. Juni 2001 – León Ich fühle mich wie gerädert. Heute Morgen um halb drei baut sich eine wild gewordene Horde spanischer Halbwüchsiger vor meinem Hotelfenster auf und krakeelt, was ...
( Category:
Travel Writing
November 5,2014 )
epub |deu | 2009-10-04 | Author:Zweig, Stefan [Zweig, Stefan]
Rio de Janeiro Vor fast vierhundert Jahren, 1552, schreibt Tomé de Souza, da er in Rio landet: »Tudo é graça que de delo pode dizer.« [Alles ist Anmut, was man ...
( Category:
Travel Writing
November 5,2014 )
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