Travel Writing
azw3, mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-06-23 | Author:Tim Severin

9 ISLAND OF SMITHS One day, said the Navigatio, Saint Brendan and his crew found themselves being blown by a southerly wind toward a stony island “very rough, rocky and ...
( Category: Travel September 18,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Grindrod, John [John Grindrod]

It was like the paperless office in reverse, the computer not just generating paper but ingesting it too. I was reminded of the punch-cards Alan Turing’s crypto-analysts were using for ...
( Category: Travel September 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-22 | Author:Andrew Blackwell [Blackwell, Andrew]

Bravo Watch was quiet that night. There were rumors that Mary was heartbroken to have turned back, that she considered it a major blow to Project Kaisei. It was impossible ...
( Category: Environmental Science September 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-02-27 | Author:Johnson, Samuel [Johnson, Samuel]

No. 168. Saturday, 26 October 1751. —————Decipit Frons prima multos, rara mens intelligit Quod interiore condidit cura angulo. PHÆDRUS.1 The tinsel glitter, and the specious mein,2 Delude the most; few ...
( Category: British & Irish September 15,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1998-09-15 | Author:Tim Flannery

WILLIAM WALL Bad Is the Bush, 1844 William Wall, Irish ‘Collector and Preserver’ at the Australian Museum, lacked the stiff upper lip so often encountered in explorers’ writings. In 1844 ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand September 10,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-11-19 | Author:John Steinbeck [Steinbeck, John]

And we were an outrage to the Spanish-Mexicans and they in their turn on the Indians. Could that be why the sequoias make folks nervous? Those natives were grown trees ...
( Category: Road Travel September 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-05 | Author:John Steinbeck

17 March 27 WE HAD collected extensively on the outer parts of Puerto Escondido, but not in the inner bay itself. At five-thirty A.M. Mexican time, we set out to ...
( Category: Marine Biology September 7,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Steigerwald, Bill [Steigerwald, Bill]

In “Travels With Charley" Steinbeck says he stopped for the night in the mountains “under the ridge of a pass” near the Idaho-Washington border at a ratty motel/gas station combo. ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction September 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-16 | Author:Italo Calvino [Calvino, Italo]

Italo Calvino I had left the draft of this letter in Turin; then I left for Rome and have not been back here for three weeks. I am signing it ...
( Category: European September 1,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sainath, P [Sainath, P]

Crime & No Punishment Targeting the poor Going to court in some parts of rural India can be quite an experience. Many dalits and adivasis have found it so. Often, ...
( Category: Travel August 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Paul Theroux [Theroux, Paul]

There is a bad dream which everyone suffers. It takes place in a large overbright room, filled with people going, "Quack! Quack!" You know every person in the room, and ...
( Category: Travel August 21,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-06 | Author:Theroux, Paul [Theroux, Paul]

John Muir: "Fond of Everything That Was Wild" LATE IN HIS life, when he was seventy-five and had only a year more to live, John Muir, one of the greatest ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 21,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-03-20 | Author:Paul Theroux [Theroux, Paul]

John Reiss was a tall stout mortician with a pink complexion and a friendly manner. His wife had said, 'He's wonderful with bereaved relatives - he just calms them down, ...
( Category: Travel August 21,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-06 | Author:Paul Theroux [Theroux, Paul]

Chapter Seventeen THE MANDALAY EXPRESS AT SUNDOWN IN Rangoon, the crows that have been II blackening the sky all day soar to their roosts as the shrill bats waken and ...
( Category: General August 21,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-17 | Author:Paul Theroux [Theroux, Paul]

“William Blake. That kind of thing?” “I believe that, too.” “I speak French,” Anne said. “In France I was taken to be a French person. That’s how good my French ...
( Category: Travel August 21,2014 )