Travel Writing
epub |eng | 2004-09-21 | Author:Howard Norman

I do not particularly delight in stories whose plots rely on coincidence, nor do I feel that synchronicity is necessarily a godsend. However, I can subscribe to the Buddhist notion ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-23 | Author:Marcy Gordon [Gordon, Marcy]

David Farley is the author of the award-winning travel memoir/narrative history, An Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church’s Strangest Relic in Italy’s Oddest Town, and co-editor of Travelers’ Tales ...
( Category: Travel September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-07 | Author:William Least Heat-Moon [HEAT-MOON, WILLIAM LEAST]

A military message? Something religious? Masonic? A riddle? A joke? His knowledge of history led Beetham to a different interpretation: the Elizabethan amusement of writing verse in code, often hiding ...
( Category: Travel September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Duncan Fallowell [Duncan Fallowell]

The night winds dropped, the following day was again sunny, and Eigg glowed with warmth. The principal house of the island is called the Lodge and is the seat of ...
( Category: LGBT September 22,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1998-09-21 | Author:Eric Newby [Eric Newby]

The next day dawned, when it did, long after eight o’clock, wet and cold with a very strong wind and snow on the 2000-foot tops of the Caha Mountains. We ...
( Category: General September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 1999-09-21 | Author:Eric Newby [Newby, Eric]

* * * * Northern England, vol. Ill, 1970. † Thomas Sharp in the Shell Guide to Northumberland, 1969. ‡ Pevsner says they were built during the reign of Mary ...
( Category: Travel September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-02-21 | Author:Eric Newby [Newby, Eric]

The sun was sinking as we floated down towards Singhirampur. It was a calm evening. The only sounds were the melancholy cawings of crows in the distant trees, and the ...
( Category: General September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Eric Newby [Eric Newby]

CHAPTER ELEVEN Encounter with a Member of the Master Race After I had been nearly a week at the Pian del Sotto I had still received no news from Wanda ...
( Category: World War II September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 1994-09-21 | Author:Eric Newby [Eric Newby]

‘Vorrei chiederle un piacere’ (‘I want to ask you a favour’) said a deep voice from behind me which I recognized immediately as being Tranquillo’s. I knew what was coming ...
( Category: Travel September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 1993-09-21 | Author:Eric Newby [Eric Newby]

Way Down the Wakwayowkastic River CANADA, 1969 IN THE AUTUMN OF 1969 I received an invitation from John Power, a writer about the Canadian outdoors, to make a canoe trip ...
( Category: Travel September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Eric Newby [Eric Newby]

* * * 1 The engravings made from Bartlett’s drawings of Constantinople first appeared in The Beauties of the Bosphorus by Miss Julia Pardoe, published in 1839. Miss Pardoe was ...
( Category: Travel September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-30 | Author:Pico Iyer [Iyer, Pico]

One night, I went to have dinner with my friend David, whom I’d met on a plane down to Havana (he springing out at the first stop to play catch ...
( Category: Cultural September 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | 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 September 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:Pico Iyer [Iyer, Pico]

3 WINTER MADE EVERYONE a kind of monk in Japan, bringing out a streak of worldly asceticism that was never far from the surface in this land of spartan epicures. ...
( Category: General September 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-07 | Author:Pico Iyer [Iyer, Pico]

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: Travel September 19,2014 )