Travel Writing
epub |eng | 2017-10-25 | Author:Patrick Leigh Fermor

[1] ‘Work goes on tremendously,’ PLF had written to Joan in November. [2] The book eventually expanded into a trilogy, the first volume being A Time of Gifts. [3] The ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-14 | Author:James Salter

Racing for the Cup At seven thirty in the morning, the loudspeakers begin announcing in German. It is the dead of winter. The mountains are barely visible. Lights are just ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-07-06 | Author:Derek Lambert [Derek Lambert]

Breakfast. Pitchers of orange cordial, a buffet with fried eggs, bacon, sausages, tomatoes, and baked beans on offer; toast, butter, and plum jam; urns of scalding tea, and sachets of ...
( Category: Europe November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tom Miller

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN “ALL WE HAVE IS OURSELVES AND OUR STRAW” After I had found another hotel, Adriano González picked me up in his Travelall for the ride once more to ...
( Category: South America November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-23 | Author:Leif Bersweden [Leif Bersweden]

Time slipped by with the blur of motorway traffic. I suddenly came to, realising I’d fallen asleep. Deciding that there was no point just sitting here, and wishing I was ...
( Category: Biological Sciences November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-24 | Author:James Dodson

CHAPTER NINE Oh, Yellowstone THE FIRST WHITE men to set foot in Yellowstone, probably early French trappers searching for a mythical river cutting through towering golden bluffs they’d heard the ...
( Category: Family Relationships November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-24 | Author:Andrew Moore

Steve and I are lost. It’s okay, he tells me, it happens every time. We have GPS, but after a few minutes we conclude that for whatever reason the maps ...
( Category: United States November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Raban

SIX No Fixed Address The very turmoil of the streets has something repulsive, something against which human nature rebels. The hundreds of thousands of all classes and ranks crowding past ...
( Category: Social Sciences November 23,2017 )
mobi |eng | 1989-08-14 | Author:Bill Bryson

In the morning I drove into Newport, America's premier yachting community, home of the America's Cup races. The old part of town had been fixed up in recent years, by ...
( Category: Travel Writing November 22,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joe Bennett [Bennett, Joe]

12 Where’s the Dugong? I’ve never seen a dugong. I’d like to see a dugong. Which is why I’ve driven south from Fujairah to this shallow lagoon. Dugongs are supposed ...
( Category: Asia November 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-19 | Author:Mark Shand [Mark Shand]

13 Full Control Ceremony WE STARTED THE steep ascent of the South Bihar highlands, leading to the great ranges of the Chota Nagpur Plateau, which eventually wind downwards to the ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides November 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-17 | Author:Bernd Stiegler & Peter Filkins [Stiegler, Bernd]

EXCURSION AND STOPOVER Around the World in 80 Days The surprise and disappointment of traveling. The illusion of having overcome distance, of having erased time. To be far away. Perec, ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 17,2017 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-06-22 | Author:Alexander Leighton

* * * THE ABDUCTION. The farm of Kelpiehaugh, at a short distance from Lessudden, was, at an early period of the St Boswell's meetings, occupied by Giles Ramsay—a man ...
( Category: Europe November 15,2017 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-08-08 | Author:Alexander Leighton

* * * THE MOSSTROOPER. "I am determined to gie up this thievin trade, Dick. If I can only escape Sir Robert Cary this time, I'll turn honest man, hing ...
( Category: Europe November 15,2017 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-04-17 | Author:Alexander Leighton

* * * THE SERGEANT’S TALES. THE PALANTINES.[G] Of all the countless numbers that take their pleasure walks upon the Calton Hill of Edinburgh, none that do not remember it ...
( Category: Europe November 15,2017 )