Travel Writing
epub |eng | 2013-10-14 | Author:Mary McCarthy [McCarthy, Mary]

Chapter Five FLORENTINE HISTORY, IN ITS great period, is a history of innovations. The Florentines wrote the first important work in the vulgar tongue (the Divina Commedia); they raised the ...
( Category: Europe September 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-09 | Author:Lavinia Spalding [Spalding, Lavinia]

Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. Fanny Stevenson died in California twenty years later, ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides September 3,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-03-06 | Author:Larkin, Emma [Larkin, Emma]

IF YOU LOOK at a British map from Orwell’s time in Burma you will see a strange star-shaped structure just north of Rangoon. It is large in comparison to anything ...
( Category: Asia September 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-03 | Author:Peter Taylor

Chapter Twenty The Iron Lady and the Iron Men March 1976—October 1981 There were two great watersheds for the ‘Brits’ during the thirty-year ‘war’. One was ‘Bloody Sunday’ in 1972, ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 3,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Wendy Dale

Conclusions Wendy Dale’s unhappiness quotient is due in large part to the actions taken on behalf of Mother & Company, with blame laid at 98.4 percent and 1.6 percent for ...
( Category: Travel Writing September 2,2017 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2002-06-17 | Author:Susan Herrmann Loomis

SEVEN Chez Clet IT NEVER FAILS that as I get ready to cook in the evening I discover I’m missing an essential ingredient. It shouldn’t really matter—improvisation is the mother ...
( Category: Regional & International September 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-10-14 | Author:Artemis Cooper

12 The Caribbean Back in London in early 1947, Paddy, Joan and Xan installed themselves in a topsy-turvy flat immediately above Heywood Hill’s bookshop, not far from Paddy’s old stamping ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers September 2,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-30 | Author:Miles Smeeton

THE FINAL JURY-RIG On March 10 we were running well with the raffee and the main. Beryl was patching the little storm-jib to make a mizzen sail, and John was ...
( Category: Travel Writing September 2,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-09-01 | Author:Lucy Knisley

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lucy Knisley is a graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently attends the Center for Cartoon Studies. She lives and works in ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides September 1,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-09-27 | Author:Orlean, Susan [Orlean, Susan]

The Congo Sound Hervé Halfon, a French person who hates French people, owns a record store on the rue des Plantes in Montparnasse, just a few Métro stops from the ...
( Category: Travel Writing September 1,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-06-23 | Author:Bill Bryson

( Category: Humor September 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Robert Kaplan [Kaplan, Robert]

[* By 1992, however, a shift in attitudes was finally apparent, as throngs of Romanians greeted Michael in the streets of Bucharest. This positive reconsideration of the ex-king is likely ...
( Category: Europe September 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:Peter Hessler [Hessler, Peter]

40 KM/HR IS THE SAFEST 80 KM/HR IS DANGEROUS 100 KM/HR IS BOUND FOR THE HOSPITAL The road climbed steeply to the border of Qinghai Province. We passed slow-moving Liberation ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence September 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-16 | Author:Jeffrey Gettleman

Nine Nairobi, 2006 Anthropologists have a theory that every mzungu who arrives in Africa eager to make his mark falls into one of the three classic “roles”—though “holes” would probably ...
( Category: Memoirs September 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-31 | Author:Rory Nugent [Nugent, Rory]

CHAPTER 16 EPENA DISAPPEARS behind the green curtain as we round the first bend. To either side of the motorized pirogue, lianas and aerial roots curl out into the sunlight ...
( Category: Africa August 31,2017 )