Travel Writing
epub |eng | 2013-08-31 | Author:Rory Nugent [Nugent, Rory]

9 Hindi by Yourself The train ride from Darjeeling to New Delhi takes more than forty hours, and as I walk from the station to the Grand Life Hotel, I ...
( Category: Asia August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-31 | Author:Katie Hickman

* * * 1 The Mexican Day of the Dead coincides with our Hallowe’en, but is a predominantly Indian celebration in which the souls of the dead are believed to ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides August 31,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-08-17 | Author:Adam Gopnik

Luke decided this year to penetrate farther into the Luxembourg Gardens. He is the Amundsen, the Peary, though I hope not the Scott, of the Luxembourg Gardens. His whole life ...
( Category: Memoirs August 31,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-10-18 | Author:W.G. Sebald [Sebald, W.G.]

The Character of Hermann Ott For this very reason the story of Hermann Ott that forms the backbone of the Diary, and is used by the author to offer the ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 31,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-09-02 | Author:Karl Pilkington & Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant [Pilkington, Karl]

Woke with a sore arse after all the horse-riding and also from the spicy rabbit I ate yesterday. I just noticed the cleaner has made a swan again out of ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 31,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-11-24 | Author:Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine [Adams, Douglas & Carwardine, Mark]

Blind Panic Assumptions are the things you don't know you're making, which is why it is so disorienting the first time you take the plug out of a wash basin ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-20 | Author:Martin, Gregory [Martin, Gregory]

In a feat of mechanical advantage that would have made Archimedes proud, using two thin ropes each running through pulleys set high up in the tree, Oliver and Evan and ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People August 30,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-05 | Author:Burton, Richard F. [Burton, Richard F.]

* * * 1 The Ashantis at Customs’ time (rites done on the death of men of rank) run across the royal threshold to escape being seized and sacrificed to ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 30,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Marilyn J. Abraham [Abraham, Marilyn J.]

Father’s Days T wo days to D-day, Dad’s arrival. The drive north to Anchorage was stunning. Snow-covered mountains backed up against blue sky on either side of Turnagain Arm, an ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 30,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Rudyard Kipling [Kipling, Rudyard]

"_Pre_cisely." "An' you think," said Pyecroft (I have no hope to render the scorn of the words), "that'll make any odds? Get out!" The man obeyed with alacrity. "See those ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-14 | Author:Leanne Shapton [Shapton, Leanne]

Penny loafers, left penny missing, doodling on a copy of The Times: Ethnic-print dress, red umbrella, snow-white hair. Wet hair, wet feet, freckles. Wooden-bead necklace, t-shirt, two-piece suit. Hands pressed ...
( Category: Sociology August 29,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-07-03 | Author:The Season of Passage

'Do you believe him?' 'Of course not.' 'Ask,' Tom insisted. 'You're her fiancé. He knows that. Quick!' 'Hey, Dean!' they called. He and Tom were in the second row, in ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-29 | Author:Leon, Donna

My First Time Eating Sheep’s Eyeball Only I didn’t eat it, so you can keep on reading. It happened in 1979, in Iran, toward the end of the country’s revolution, ...
( Category: Travel Writing August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-22 | Author:John A. Cherrington

* * * 2 On the subject of odd place-names: One year I stayed at a delightful thatched-cottage B&B in the village of Knockdown, Wiltshire. At breakfast I gingerly broached ...
( Category: Hiking & Camping August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-23 | Author:Gavin Maxwell

When first I read that I drew from it a great deal of comfort, until I reached the last lines of the same poem, so completely giving it the lie ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 28,2017 )