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Rising From The Plains by John McPhee
epub |eng | 2011-06-21 | Author:John McPhee

Under severe nervous and vocal strain, he taught himself to drive, alone, on a wide expanse of level ground. Automatically he called “Whoa, there!” when he wanted to stop. He ...
( Category: Specific Locations March 8,2020 )
Adventures of an Angler in Canada, Nova Scotia and the United States by Charles Lanman
epub |eng | 2017-01-09 | Author:Charles Lanman [Lanman, Charles]

FALLS OF MONTMORENCY. Quebec, upon the whole, is a remarkable place, and well worth visiting. The environs of the city are also interesting, and a ride to the Falls of ...
( Category: Americas March 8,2020 )
The Anabasis of Alexander by Arrian
epub |eng | | Author:Arrian

* * * CHAPTER XII. Callisthenes Refuses to Prostrate Himself. By making these and other remarks of a similar kind, Callisthenes greatly annoyed Alexander, but spoke the exact sentiments of ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 7,2020 )
The Writing of Fiction by Edith Wharton
epub |eng | | Author:Edith Wharton

VI The evening party with which “War and Peace” begins is one of the most triumphant examples in fiction of the difficult art of “situating” the chief actors in the ...
( Category: Victorian March 7,2020 )
Of Walking in Ice: Munich-Paris, 23 November-14 December 1974 by Werner Herzog
mobi |eng | 2014-11-22 | Author:Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog made his first film in 1961 at the age of nineteen. Since then he has produced, written, and directed more than fifty feature and documentary films, such as ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers March 7,2020 )
La Passione by Dianne Hales
epub |eng | 2019-04-15 | Author:Dianne Hales

* * * AS I’VE WATCHED MAESTRI of glass, clay, silk, and other media work, I’ve come to think of them as Italy’s unsung cultural heroes. Spending time in their ...
( Category: Europe March 7,2020 )
Political Communication in Britain by Unknown
epub |eng | 2018-11-24 | Author:Unknown

Conclusions The Conservative Party’s primary mistake was to risk its majority by calling a snap election in 2017. In the post-Brexit context, the party and its leader would have offered ...
( Category: Business of Art March 7,2020 )
The Absent Hand by Suzannah Lessard
epub |eng | 2019-01-07 | Author:Suzannah Lessard

5 Fresh Kills One mellow winter day during my Brooklyn sojourn, just before Christmas, I set off for Red Hook with a portable easel. I like to produce a nice ...
( Category: Human Geography March 6,2020 )
The Secret Worlds of Colin Fletcher by Colin Fletcher
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2014-10-15 | Author:Colin Fletcher

Next morning I made a reconnaissance. I walked the marshy mile down to the river and found a good campsite a couple of hundred yards below the outflow. From it ...
( Category: Running & Jogging March 6,2020 )
In Putin's Footsteps : Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones (9781250163240) by Khrushcheva Nina; Tayler Jeffrey
epub |eng | | Author:Khrushcheva, Nina; Tayler, Jeffrey

7 NOVOSIBIRSK A STORY OF SCIENCE AND SERENDIPITY TIME ZONE: MSK+4; UTC+7 “Can you fix a town in twenty-four hours?” “Yes, we can.” “How?” “Putin just has to say that ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union March 6,2020 )
Misadventures Series: Books 13-17 by Unknown
epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

It’s after lunch that I find the note. It’s in a pile of books under an ottoman, and despite the entire terrible morning, I can’t help but give a cluck ...
( Category: Performing Arts March 6,2020 )
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll XII by Robert Green Ingersoll
epub |eng | 2016-07-30 | Author:Robert Green Ingersoll [Ingersoll, Robert Green]

CONVENTION OF THE AMERICAN SECULAR UNION. Albany, N. Y., September 13, 1885. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: While I have never sought any place in any organization, and while I never intended ...
( Category: Christian Living March 6,2020 )
An Account of The Manners and Customs of The Modern Egyptians, Volume 2 by Edward William Lane
epub |eng | 2017-07-19 | Author:Edward William Lane [Lane, Edward William]

The beloved of my heart visited me in the darkness of night: I stood, to show him honour, until he sat down. I said, ' O thou my petition, and ...
( Category: Africa March 6,2020 )
Riding the Magic Carpet by Tom Anderson
epub |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Tom Anderson

The situation was resolved by a small, primeval Lembonganese man, with cruel features, a grin that was certainly not the mark of happiness, and a home-made cigar stuck firmly between ...
( Category: Surfing March 6,2020 )
The Battle for Syria by Christopher Phillips
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Phillips

Suleimani’s Syria? ‘Syria is occupied by the Iranian regime,’ former Syrian Prime Minister Rijad Hijab told the Saudi-owned al-Arabiya news channel in February 2013, six months after his defection. ‘The ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 5,2020 )

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