Travel Writing
mobi, epub |eng | 1995-05-26 | Author:Philip Marsden

At the end of the school term, Helena took the Red Cross train up to Wilno for Christmas. Reassured by the Polish administration, her mother had returned there in October, ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1992-01-02 | Author:Doris May Lessing

OVER THE RAINBOW In Harare they talk endlessly about the new agreement over Namibia in the same way we do about the ending of the Iran–Iraq War, and the end ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-19 | Author:Amitav Ghosh

14 WITH THE COMING of winter the rains began and soon the lanes of Nashawy were knee-deep in cold, sticky mud and nobody ventured out of their houses if they ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1899-01-02 | Author:Joshua Slocum; Dennis A. Berthold

CHAPTER XII Seventy-two days without a port—Whales and birds—A peep into the Spray’s galley—Flying-fish for breakfast—A welcome at Apia—A visit from Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson—At Vailima—Samoan hospitality—Arrested for fast riding—An ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Alice Steinbach

It was still early, so I decided to visit a museum I’d heard about: the quaintly named Museum of Garden History. One of my English friends had warned me not ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-30 | Author:Algeo, Matthew [Algeo, Matthew]

* * * 10 New York, New York, June 27–July 5, 1953 Harry’s private railcar, which was attached to the regular Philadelphia Express, arrived at Penn Station in New York ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-02 | Author:Jennifer Baggett; Amanda Pressner; Holly C. Corbett

Amanda and Jen sat next to me on my spartan twin bed inside the dorm. Their stuffed backpacks leaned against the wall beside us, an unwelcome reminder that they’d soon ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-23 | Author:Laura Fraser

WHEN I GET home, put on some music, and run a bath, I consider our conversation. There is no doubt that whatever I’ve been doing, with regard to men, hasn’t ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-08-25 | Author:Jon Krakauer

* Bromet had left Base Camp in mid-April and returned to Seattle, whence she continued to file Internet dispatches about Fischer’s expedition for Outside Online; she relied on regular phone ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-08-24 | Author:Elisabeth Tova Bailey

13. A SNAIL’S THOUGHTS why such careful consideration snail? — KOBAYASHI ISSA (1763 – 1828) I WAS CERTAIN THAT my snail was just as aware of the details of its ...
( Category: Marine Life March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-02-21 | Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

54 This morning, I overslept. Which is to say—sloth that I am, I dozed until the ungodly hour of 4:15 AM. I woke up only minutes before the Gurugita was ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Michael Cunningham

GOSSIP Provincetown is, among its many attributes, one of the more impressive rumor mills in the Western world. Nathaniel Parker Willis, a popular nineteenth-century journalist, said over a hundred years ...
( Category: New England March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2007-02-13 | Author:Ishmael Beah

We arrived in the village with nightfall and sat against the walls of the army house. It was quiet, and as if we were afraid of silence, we began cleaning ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Stephen Fry

Colonel and Coltrane It was hard not to like Manchester. Being called ‘love’, ‘chuck’ or a ‘daft barmcake’ can only delight a southerner used to the lonely and unsmiling lovelessness ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf | | 2008-04-22 | Author:Chelsea Handler

CHAPTER SEVEN Dim Sum and Then Some Sarah and I had been back from London for almost two months, in which time she had landed herself another man. Lydia, Ivory, ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )