Travel Writing
epub |eng | | Author:Hugh Thomson

To understand the Anglo-Saxons I needed to understand their obsessions. Studying village settlement patterns is all very well, but how much would you know of twenty-first-century man from council tax ...
( Category: Biological Sciences September 16,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bruce Bochy [Bochy, Bruce]

CHAPTER 5 WALKING FROM OHIO TO KENTUCKY AND BACK, OVER A HISTORIC SUSPENSION BRIDGE I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I love walking near water. Any city ...
( Category: Travel Writing September 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Jan Morris [Jan Morris]

19. Dams, Bridges and Bones It is science that has done all this to the Indians, taming their prairies and humbling their befeathered warriors; and science, in its most spectacular ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides September 15,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Robb

VII A REALIST IN ROME RED BANNERS waved in the winter air outside the Pantheon. A band played the Internationale. The party leader wept. The coffin arrived from the senate ...
( Category: Europe September 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:David Greene [Greene, David]

. . . WE FINISH UP dinner and tea at the hotel restaurant in the center of Izhevsk, and cab to the train station. Our FSB friends are still with ...
( Category: Food, Lodging & Transportation September 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-27 | Author:Vanessa Woods [Woods, Vanessa]

MAX IS IN THE TESTING ROOM. He is the perfect male model, his luxurious hair fans out in all directions. He shakes his locks when he sees me. Yes, his ...
( Category: Memoirs September 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2005-09-15 | Author:Geraldine Bedell

In House VI, the experience of the physical environment does not lead to any mental structure – the experience is, in fact, quite the reverse. Once the conceptual structure is ...
( Category: Travel Writing September 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:Bill Bryson [Bryson, Bill]

CHAPTER FIFTEEN I went to Retford. I can’t explain it. Through my morning ablutions, the gentle removal of the tissues from my swollen nostrils, through breakfast and checking out of ...
( Category: Travel Writing September 14,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1995-11-01 | Author:John Steinbeck [Steinbeck, John]

“My mule was a complainer. For a while I thought he simply didn’t like me, but I believe now that he had a sour eye for the world. With every ...
( Category: Travel Writing September 14,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-12-01 | Author:John Steinbeck

The hay in the little barn was sweet. Rabbits in a cage against the wall rustled and nibbled in the dark. On the other side of the mud wall a ...
( Category: Travel Writing September 14,2017 )
mobi |eng | 1941-04-15 | Author:John Steinbeck

17 March 27 WE HAD collected extensively on the outer parts of Puerto Escondido, but not in the inner bay itself. At five-thirty A.M. Mexican time, we set out to ...
( Category: Travel Writing September 14,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-02 | Author:Farrell, Joseph P. [Farrell, Joseph P.]

Yet this meant that the gels themselves still had to be manually prepared on slides. While the major revolution had indeed been achieved, something else was still needed if Venter’s ...
( Category: Evolution September 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-11-19 | Author:Redmond O'Hanlon

Comforting myself with the thought that any discriminating python, given the chance, would avoid the unpleasant tickle of hair in the throat and go for a trouble-free first-time gulp, a ...
( Category: Asia September 12,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2003-07-01 | Author:Henry David Thoreau [Thoreau, Henry David]

There were several canal-boats at Cromwell's Falls passing through the locks, for which we waited. In the forward part of one stood a brawny New Hampshire man, leaning on his ...
( Category: Classics September 11,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Theodore Roosevelt

I had kept four Kikuyu with me to accompany me on my hunts and carry in the skins and meat. They were with me on this occasion; and it was ...
( Category: Hunting & Fishing September 11,2017 )