Travel Writing
epub |eng | 2012-03-13 | Author:Nick Tosches [Tosches, Nick]

As my friend saw and convincingly expressed it, the relatively recent and fast-growing spread of cheap and plentiful ya ba is a plague that will ultimately prove far more destructive ...
( Category: Adventure February 15,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Levi-Strauss, Claude [Levi-Strauss, Claude]

Fig 28. A lip ornament and earrings made of mother-of-pearl and feathers Gradually, all these people went away; we were sharing the hut, which measured approximately twelve metres by five, ...
( Category: General February 13,2015 )
azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:Hessler, Peter [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: General February 13,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-08 | Author:Eames, Andrew [Eames, Andrew]

Atilla’s vision of filth and grime is contiguous with the present day, but amongst those things it had washed away, from just where Attila sat, were throngs of Jewish children ...
( Category: General February 6,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Peter Stothard [STOTHARD, PETER]

He wrote on other subjects which scholars have reconstructed from the first discoveries at this palatial seaside villa. Much effort has been devoted to explaining his charred thoughts on sound ...
( Category: General February 6,2015 )
epub | | | Author:Alexander Maitland

similar, indeed, to the spiritual uplift inspired by height and space in a cathedral. As well as taking close-up portraits, Thesiger photographed Bait Kathir, Rashid and other nomadic Bedu tribes ...
( Category: Travel February 6,2015 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1992-01-28 | Author:Robert Byron

PART V PART V Shahi (c. 300 ft.), April 22nd.—The first evening of our long-planned journey. Lady Hoare and Joseph got up early to breakfast with us under the wistaria. ...
( Category: Travel January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-22 | Author:Shile Khumalo

Before leaving Nairobi I decided to get a letter of introduction from the South African High Commission to use in Addis Ababa when applying for a visa to Sudan. One ...
( Category: Travel January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-09-06 | Author:Michael Petrou

Amir called me on my hotel’s lobby telephone. I had returned to Tehran as he had instructed. “Check your email.” I opened my inbox to find a detailed message from ...
( Category: Canadian January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Levison Wood [Wood, Levison]

THE IMPENETRABLE SWAMP Juba to Bor, South Sudan, April 2014 ‘Missionaries, mercenaries and misfits,’ said the man behind the hotel bar. ‘Everyone here’s a lunatic with nowhere better to be, ...
( Category: Travel January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2005-01-28 | Author:Geoffrey Wolff

Sometime around 1820, William Bradstreet came up the Kennebec in his little 125-ton brig Orion. It was late in the fall, and she was frozen in at Dearborn’s wharf in ...
( Category: New England January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Paul Theroux

MATTHEW POWER Excuse Us While We Kiss the Sky FROM GQ AS SINGAPORE AIRLINES Flight 322 descended through the early-morning haze toward Heathrow, Bradley L. Garrett, PhD—just Brad to his ...
( Category: Travel January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-30 | Author:Richard Branson

Freddie went into the scrap business full-time, turning old warplanes into aluminum ingots. He claimed he was more than happy servicing and recycling planes, and that his flying days were ...
( Category: History January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-28 | Author:W.H. Davies

CHAPTER 18 OFF AGAIN OF COURSE AT THIS HOMECOMING I vowed that I would never again leave my native town. True, I found great difficulty in sleeping on a soft ...
( Category: Authors January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-28 | Author:Rick Steves

Like great cities in emerging economies around the world, Istanbul bustles with hope for a bright future. And yet, this ancient city is striding into the future. During my visit, ...
( Category: Regional January 29,2015 )