Travel Writing
epub, mobi | | 2010-03-02 | Author:Bryson, Bill [Bryson, Bill]
On my final morning I called at the Capuchin monks’ mausoleum in the church of Santa Maria della Concezione on the busy Piazza Barberini. This I cannot recommend highly enough. ...
( Category:
General
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1991-04-06 | Author:Bryson, Bill [Bryson, Bill]
14. Naples, Sorrento and Capri I checked out of my hotel and walked to Roma-Termini. It was, in the way of most public places in Italy, a madhouse. At every ...
( Category:
Essays
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-08-09 | Author:Will Ferguson [Ferguson, Will]
6 I CAUGHT A RIDE into the port city of Maizuru with a man who worked for a furniture-shipping company. Maizuru has a confusing, split personality, with two separate downtowns ...
( Category:
General
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-20 | Author:Thesky, Betty N. & Janet Spencer & Nanette Weston [Thesky, Betty N.]
A male flight attendant: “We were in the middle of a flight and I was walking down the aisle checking on my passengers when I noticed a very large woman ...
( Category:
Commercial
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joshua Slocum
CHAPTER XII Seventy-two days without a port—Whales and birds—A peep into the Spray’s galley—Flying-fish for breakfast—A welcome at Apia—A visit from Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson—At Vailima—Samoan hospitality—Arrested for fast riding—An ...
( Category:
Narratives
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Greenblatt, Stephen [Greenblatt, Stephen]
The Spanish-born Harvard philosopher George Santayana called this idea—the ceaseless mutation of forms composed of indestructible substances—“the greatest thought2 that mankind has ever hit upon.” • The elementary particles are ...
( Category:
Study Guides
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-09-23 | Author:Hooman Majd [Majd, Hooman]
The parade at the mosque continued. Different groups of men, sometimes even very young boys, were marching past me, each group headed by a flag bearer and each group stepping ...
( Category:
Religion, Politics & State
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Simon Winchester
The elegant copperplate and exquisitely courteous tone of Consul Cameron’s lengthy Krakatoa dispatch to Lord Granville, in London. The error is understandable. Kennedy had in fact been consul in Sumatra, ...
( Category:
Volcanology
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:William Dalrymple [Dalrymple, William]
As he left, Broadfoot told the General about his own anxieties: he had tried to get the smiths and armourers in the city to manufacture some mining tools to be ...
( Category:
Asia
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1988-06-06 | Author:James M. McPherson [McPherson, James M.]
15 Billy Yank's Chickahominy Blues I In May 1862, prospects for the Confederacy's survival seemed bleak. Most of the Mississippi Valley had fallen to the enemy. In Virginia, McClellan's army ...
( Category:
Civil War
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Craig Childs [CHILDS, CRAIG]
Colin and I spent most of the day at this cliff dwelling, hardly speaking to each other, just moving from ruin to ruin—some hardly ruins at all. I eventually made ...
( Category:
Nature Writing & Essays
March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |nld | 0101-01-01 | Author:Charles Edward [Edward, Charles]
Chapter Twelve Birds leaped into the air, fleeing their forest perches at the approach of the painted wagon. It was a home built on a cart, pulled by an old ...
( Category:
Europe
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-03 | Author:Garfield, Simon [Garfield, Simon]
And there it sits on the map to this day, a long narrow slice of the lower half of the peninsula not far from the main body of the continent. ...
( Category:
Historical Study & Educational Resources
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1998-11-22 | Author:Bryson, Bill [Bryson, Bill]
Chapter sixteen I HAD ALWAYS thought that New England was nothing but maple trees and white churches and old guys in checked shirts sitting around iron stoves in country general ...
( Category:
Travel Writing
March 26,2014 )
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