Travel Writing
mobi |eng | 2011-05-01 | Author:Paul Theroux

John Muir: "Fond of Everything That Was Wild" LATE IN HIS life, when he was seventy-five and had only a year more to live, John Muir, one of the greatest ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf | | 2009-12-25 | Author:Bill Bryson

Surprisingly, considering its modest dimensions and how little room there is for real backcountry, the park is remarkably rich in wildlife. Bobcats, bears, red and gray foxes, beaver, skunks, raccoons, ...
( Category: New England March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-21 | Author:John Gimlette

New Amsterdam still felt like an outpost at the end of a war. Although it was supposed to be the biggest city in eastern Guyana, it had all the exuberance ...
( Category: French Guiana, Guyana & Suriname March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-05-08 | Author:Chris Stewart

BUILDING THE HOUSE FOR SOME MONTHS A STOCKPILE OF CHESTNUT ROOF-BEAMS had lain under a tarpaulin on a piece of flat land behind the house. It was a reminder to ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-08 | Author:Frances Mayes

IN HIS Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Vasari tells a revealing and moving story. When a plague swept through Cortona in 1502, Signorelli's son, already training ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:William Murray

Ten IN THE EARLY spring of 1949 I was hired as a stringer by the Rome bureau of Time-Life. I had heard about the job from an acquaintance at the ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-03-25 | Author:Terry Darlington

MONICA TURNED HARD LEFT, SWINGING THE tiller. Her jaw was set, her gaze ahead. The windmill generator fizzed and the Phyllis May swung from the hip and smashed into a ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-03-09 | Author:Myla Goldberg

Political Theatro OLD TOWN SQUARE LIES AT THE VERY HEART of the Stare Msto district. For eight centuries, the square served as a marketplace, rows of merchants’ stalls filling the ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-06-13 | Author:J. Maarten Troost

IT BEGAN, for us, inauspiciously. Attached to the house was a heavy wooden shed where the cyclone shutters were kept. I pried the door open and immediately knew that creepy ...
( Category: Vanuatu March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-01 | Author:Frazier

The urban or semi-urban landscape we had entered now became continuous. Soon we were in the valley of the great Angara River, approaching Irkutsk. The air turned smoky and gray, ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-09-24 | Author:Colin Thubron

That night I was startled awake. Stepan, drunk, had blundered across the room and grabbed for his bag of belongings on the wall. In the frame of our window, blocking ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1989-01-01 | Author:Colin Thubron

In the black silence, while I lie exhausted without sleep, and there is nothing more to do, the Sogdian trader stirs, closer in times of stress. What about those you ...
( Category: Asia March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Colin Thubron

A mile from my camp, an isolated hill rises like a termites’ nest. Its crags are disintegrating into scree, but around its crest the monastery of Chiu, ‘the Little Bird’, ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Paul Theroux

The Chinese flock to Kunming to gape at the colorful natives—twenty-three separate minorities, all gaily dressed in handsomely stitched skirts and quilted jackets, boots and headdresses. They come from the ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-05 | Author:Peter Hessler

ARTIFACT G The Uncracked Bone AFTER TALKING WITH OLD MR. ZHAO, I SEARCH FOR THE STORY OF Chen Mengjia’s life. The material is thin: no book-length biography of Chen has ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )