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Neither Here, Nor There by Bill Bryson
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-02 | Author:Bill Bryson

On my final morning I called at the Capuchin monks’ mausoleum in the church of Santa Maria della Concezione on the busy Piazza Barberini. This I cannot recommend highly enough. ...
( Category: Travel Writing October 30,2017 )
Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire by Simon Winchester
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-05-31 | Author:Simon Winchester

But it was not enough. Hong Kong Island soon became wretchedly overcrowded, and the paranoia of Empire—the feeling that a piece of British territory was never big enough, or secure ...
( Category: Travel Writing October 30,2017 )
India: A Million Mutinies Now by V.S. Naipaul
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-22 | Author:V.S. Naipaul

5 After the Battle In India in 1962 I took much of the British architecture for granted. After what I had known in Trinidad and England, British building in India ...
( Category: Travel Writing October 30,2017 )
Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports From the Not-So-Far East by Pico Iyer
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-08 | Author:Pico Iyer

AT THE RALLY, as so often in Manila, it was the happiness of the Filipinos that left me saddest. Carefree and irrepressible to the end, they reminded me finally of ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides October 30,2017 )
Sun After Dark: Flights Into the Foreign by Pico Iyer
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Pico Iyer

The excitement of travel, even in Bolivia, is that you’re in a place where nothing makes more sense than in a dream: that pretty girl is smiling at you (or ...
( Category: Travel Writing October 30,2017 )
Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World by Pico Iyer
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-09 | Author:Pico Iyer

And so, in time, I came to settle into the rhythms of this silent country, to come to know its patterns so well that the days began to pick up ...
( Category: Travel Writing October 30,2017 )
Passion on the Vine: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Family in the Heart of Italy by Sergio Esposito
mobi |eng | 2008-04-21 | Author:Sergio Esposito

Chapter 8 PIEDMONT A FEW YEARS EARLIER, as I was driving down a familiar road to the Barolo township of Serralunga d’Alba, I’d noticed something peculiar rising up from the ...
( Category: Beverages & Wine October 30,2017 )
Jupiters Travels: Four Years Around the World on a Triumph by Ted Simon
mobi, epub |eng | 1979-01-01 | Author:Ted Simon

'I will come back to visit you tomorrow, but is there anything you need now?' It was kind of him. He would have liked dearly to put me off until ...
( Category: Specialty Travel October 30,2017 )
One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey by Richard Proenneke & Sam Keith
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-01 | Author:Richard Proenneke & Sam Keith

September 21st. I put my smoker into operation again. I kept it going all day, and while all the meat except the hindquarters cured in the smoke, I worked on ...
( Category: Travel Writing October 30,2017 )
Hacia rutas salvajes by Krakauer Jon
epub | | 2010-04-10 | Author:Krakauer, Jon [Krakauer, Jon]

Compró una pequeña casa de una planta en Torrance, trabajó con ahínco y ascendió con rapidez. Sam nació en 1959, y le siguieron cuatro hijos más en pocos años: Stacy, ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers October 30,2017 )
Explorer by W. Somerset Maugham
epub |eng | | Author:W. Somerset Maugham

XI * George Allerton had changed since he left England. The flesh had fallen away from his bones, and his face was sallow. He had not stood the climate well. ...
( Category: Essays October 27,2017 )
The Skeptical Romancer by W. Somerset Maugham
epub |eng | 2012-02-14 | Author:W. Somerset Maugham [Maugham, W. Somerset]

BUDDHA IT SEEMED TO me that there was more of this in the humble little monasteries that I had passed on the road hither. With their wooden walls and thatched ...
( Category: Reference October 27,2017 )
In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond by Robert D. Kaplan
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 October 27,2017 )
Off Main Street by Michael Perry
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Perry

2001 The Osmotic Elvis The first thing I remember about Elvis is that he was dead. The news was postdated, and obtained in oblique fashion, but that, as it turns ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence October 26,2017 )
South with the Sun by Lynne Cox
epub |eng | 2011-09-13 | Author:Lynne Cox [Cox, Lynne]

Jimmy shows off his hunting stick beside a polar-bear skin. Now he waits for the Arctic char to return to King William Island. Still restless and feeling lonely, I walked ...
( Category: Travel Writing October 26,2017 )

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