Travel Writing
epub |eng | | Author:Lori L. Tharps

11: La Reconquista I couldn’t eat. I left my appetite in Spain. In my journal I wrote, “The pain of starvation is preferable to the pain of remembering.” Somehow I ...
( Category: United States March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-15 | Author:Mallon, Scott

When You Gotta Go, Go! “Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.” Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States *** I was desperate to get out ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 3,2020 )
epub |deu | 2017-04-27 | Author:Unknown

- K - .KABZEEL (God gathers). Jos. 15:21. .KADESH (sacred, holy). Ge. 14:7. .KADESH BARNEA (holy, desert of wandering). Nu. 34:4. .KADMIEL (God going before with benefits, minister of God). ...
( Category: Drawing March 3,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-10-14 | Author:Fuchsia Dunlop [Dunlop, Fuchsia]

Pounded ciba chile dip This version is extremely typical of southern Sichuan. Snip 10 dried chiles in half or into ¾-inch (2cm) sections and shake out the seeds as much ...
( Category: Chinese March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-06 | Author:Théophile Gautier [Gautier, Théophile]

On beholding such wretched hovels, you feel yourself full of pity for the robbers who are obliged to live by marauding in a country where you might make a round ...
( Category: Europe March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Francis Parkman

CHAPTER XIV. THE OGILLALAH VILLAGE. “They waste as—ay—like April snow, In the warm noon, we shrink away; And fast they follow, as we go Towards the setting day.” BRYANT. SUCH ...
( Category: State & Local March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Miranda Seymour [Seymour, Miranda]

20 FALLING IN LOVE AGAIN: TOM MITFORD (1909–45) Tom Mitford was born in 1909, the year before his doting grandfather, Lord Redesdale, wrote an admiring introduction to the book that ...
( Category: Historical March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-17 | Author:Wallace Stegner [Stegner, Wallace]

8 Coda Wilderness Letter Los Altos, Calif. Dec. 3, 1960 David E. Pesonen Wildland Research Center Agricultural Experiment Station 243 Mulford Hall University of California Berkeley 4, Calif. Dear Mr. ...
( Category: Essays March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-09 | Author:Robert D. Kaplan [Kaplan, Robert D.]

That was only four months following Ceauşescu’s downfall. The Traian now boasted the latest fixtures and amenities, with remodeled bathrooms and a brand-new lobby in a pseudo-European global style. The ...
( Category: Europe March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-29 | Author:Unknown

SA 80A2 LSW UK (temperate) 31,500 16,000 Brunei (hot/wet) 31,500 9,600 Kuwait (hot/dry) 7,875 8,728 Alaska (cold/dry) 31,500 43,200 The first SA 80A2 were in operational service during early 2002 ...
( Category: Performing Arts March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-07 | Author:Jeff Gordon [Gordon, Jeff]

— 57 — BATTLE BEFORE THE GATES OF SKUKUZA Kerri Bowie There is a tendency in Kruger to think that the best sightings are to be found the furthest away ...
( Category: Adventure Travel March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-30 | Author:Eric Newby [Newby, Eric]

Albatross After we had posed the albatross for our cameras on the coaming of the after wheelhouse, the Second Mate carefully folded the wings and threw it back into the ...
( Category: Excursion Guides March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-01 | Author:Paddy Docherty [Paddy Docherty]

Mahmud was therefore doing the work of God by seizing the treasure of the Indians. Moreover, many of his campaigns combined plunder with iconoclasm, exploiting the happy coincidence that some ...
( Category: Central Asia History March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-16 | Author:Meryl Urson [Urson, Meryl]

BEFORE WE SUCCEEDED finally in making it through all the hugging and handshakes that ended the evening and trudged the stairs to our room, Tommy cornered us in the moonlit ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 2,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-03-31 | Author:Dave Gorman

Chapter 19 Press the red button I SLEPT FULLY clothed that night. Partly because of the cold and partly because I felt very exposed being naked with only a thin ...
( Category: Memoirs March 1,2020 )