Travel Writing
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2012-03-05 | Author:Howard Frank Mosher

31 Why I Am a Cross-Country Skier, Part 1 The conditions that morning were ideal for skiing. The temperature was about ten degrees above zero. It was clear and windless. ...
( Category: Literary March 11,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Unknown

A Little Portry Ern was not told anything about the walk to the wood. He wanted to know, however, what were the steps that Fatty was going to take in ...
( Category: Memoirs March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-19 | Author:Smart, Jason [Smart, Jason]

Clockwise from top left: A beautiful door, one of many, in the medina; A great monument in central Tunis; Minaret of the Al-Zaytuna Mosque; The backstreets near my hotel; Wandering ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-03 | Author:John Baxter

The Marais churns. It always has. Though shops with signs in Hebrew bolstered its image as the Jewish quarter of Paris, that was fading fast. Gay culture has displaced many ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1986-05-08 | 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: Essays & Correspondence March 10,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-04-01 | Author:Chuck Thompson [Thompson, Chuck]

Jaisalmer proves to be a tough place to leave and not just because Joyce and I like it so much. The morning we check out, I find Belu loitering in ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides March 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-04 | Author:Noo Saro-Wiwa

That evening, I checked my e-mail at a Lebanese-run Internet café opposite the desiccated lawns of the Kano golf club. I was still dressed in my hijab and headscarf, but ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-14 | Author:Richard Henry Dana [Dana, Richard Henry]

CHAPTER XXVII The Sunday Wash-up—On Shore—A Set-to—A Grandee—“Sail Ho!”—A Fandango The only other vessel in port was the Russian government bark, from Asitka, mounting eight guns, (four of which we ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 6,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-07-14 | Author:Joshua Slocum [Slocum, Joshua]

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: Travel Writing March 6,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2000-04-12 | Author:Alison Wearing

The group is smiling now, children giggling and approaching me with offerings of food: nuts and fruit and candy and cakes. Turtle Man introduces his family one by one: father, ...
( Category: Specific Groups March 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Clive James [James, Clive]

Postcard from Salzburg AT THE Heathrow Terminal 2 check-in counter I was behind a 6 foot 6 inch male Ethiopian lacrosse goalie who had turned up three days early for ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides March 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-12 | Author:Brian Bouldrey [Bouldrey, Brian]

Buen Camino Sharman Apt Russell It feels like the screws are coming loose,” my friend April said. She and I were on the Camino de Santiago in northwestern Spain, walking ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides March 5,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Christopher Winn [Winn, Christopher]

For the first few years of its life the bridge was opened several times a day. Approaching ships would hoot their horn when they reached Cherry Pier downstream, as a ...
( Category: Europe March 5,2018 )
epub |spa | | Author:Nicholas & Sparks Sparks & Nicholas & Sparks Sparks [Sparks, Nicholas & Sparks, Micah]

Although there were riding trails along the American River, it was months before my mom could ride her. Chinook had lived most of her life in a pasture (along with ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Pete Hamill [Hamill, Pete]

And so my present as a newspaperman was always accompanied by the past. Bennett and Greeley, Pulitzer and Hearst hovered near me as I was taught my craft. There was ...
( Category: Historical March 3,2018 )