Travel Writing
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-28 | Author:Piers Moore Ede

Black Magic ‘I was telling my friend about our visit to Mata-ji,’ began Niraj, enjoying a fizzy green Limca on the rooftop of my guesthouse. ‘And that you were interested ...
( Category: Christian Living May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1977-01-02 | Author:Patrick Leigh Fermor

The Danube inspires those who live on its banks with an infectious passion. My companions knew everything about the river. They rejoiced in the fact that, after the Volga, which ...
( Category: General May 7,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Matthiessen & Pico Iyer [Matthiessen, Peter]

OCTOBER 28 A light snow fell throughout the evening, but this morning it is clear. The Ring-mos demanded a raise in pay before they would try again, and not receiving ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:William T. Vollmann

He had read Snow Country long ago one Arctic summer in Pond Inlet when people were hunting narwhals. Pond Inlet lies considerably north of Churchill, and the landscape is different. ...
( Category: Short Stories May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1982-01-01 | Author:William Least Heat-Moon

All are written to me, and I must get what the writing means. Money half gone, I’d come up with a bit of epistemological small change. Not knowing what else ...
( Category: Travel Writing May 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-30 | Author:Freya Stark [STARK, FREYA]

11 THE EASTERN WALL OF XANTHUS Envoys from Phaselis came to offer friendly relations and to crown Alexander with a golden crown. ARRIAN I, 24, 5. A NATURAL DOCILITY IS ...
( Category: Travel Writing May 6,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Gabrielle Walker

This is also when territorial troubles can start to play out, when it really starts to matter if someone is sitting in your chair. Last winter, Larry, Jake and a ...
( Category: Earth Sciences May 6,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-10-21 | Author:Mehta, Suketu [Mehta, Suketu]

IT WAS JAIMAN who had first pointed her out to me. Jaiman, the first Marwari editor of Russian Playboy and a friend of mine from New York, had half a ...
( Category: Women in History May 2,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-11 | Author:Xenophon [Xenophon]

(5) See Wesley's anthem, Eccles. xliv. 1, "Let us now praise famous men and our fathers that begat us." Per. All that you say, Socrates, is most true, but do ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 28,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-11 | Author:Xenophon [Xenophon]

Seven tripods, which ne'er felt the fire, and of gold ten talents And burnished braziers twenty, and horses twelve— (70) by weight and measure duly reckoned, (71) I cannot stay ...
( Category: Travel Writing April 28,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-11 | Author:Xenophon [Xenophon]

C.1. Cyrus' generosity: he is not cold, not incapable of soft pleasure, but too pre-occupied with greater things. On the whole, if a hedonist, this type of man, a hedonist ...
( Category: Greece April 28,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Matthiessen

6 Beyond Black Drunken River WITH ITS MUD Streets, thatch roofs, and raffish waterfront, and its barefoot Shipibos with their nose ornaments and bright clothing, the Peruvian river town of ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays April 9,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2001-12-07 | Author:Anthony Bourdain [Bourdain, Anthony]

We are barbarians. We are big, hairy, smelly, foreign devils, unsophisticated, loud, clumsy, overexpressive, and overfed, blundering thoughtlessly through life. At least that’s how you might feel when preparing yourself ...
( Category: Essays April 1,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2002-11-08 | Author:sue monk kidd

His secretary was a white lady who looked about eighty years old. She sat at a desk in the reception area, putting on fire-red lipstick. Her hair was permed into ...
( Category: Historical March 29,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1982-12-15 | Author:Michael Ondaatje [Ondaatje, Michael]

THE PRODIGAL HARBOUR I arrived in a plane but love the harbour. Dusk. And the turning on of electricity in ships, portholes of moon, the blue glide of a tug, ...
( Category: Biographical March 29,2014 )