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Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Tony Horwitz

FROM HIS OLIVE SKIN and unusual surname, I’d guessed that the pharmacist Joe Gerache was of southern European extraction. But when I arrived at his home in suburban Vicksburg, I ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Summer Boys by Winters Eden
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-02 | Author:Winters, Eden [Winters, Eden]

Chapter Three Ferris stared into the slick water of Pearl Harbor, the sharp bite of oil filling his nose. Down beneath him, in a watery grave, lay the USS Arizona. ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler by Spalding Lavinia
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-31 | Author:Spalding, Lavinia [Spalding, Lavinia]

• Plenty of us keep dream logs in our everyday lives, but at junctures of growth, movement, and transition, dreams are strongest and most telling. Observe how your dreams differ ...
( Category: Travel Writing Reference March 25,2014 )
The Kingdom by the Sea
mobi |eng | 2011-10-22 | Author:Paul Theroux

The next day was Saturday. Harry went across to the barrack in the afternoon. As he approached the door, it seemed unusually quiet. But he walked in anyway, and then ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time by Jeff Deck; Benjamin D. Herson
mobi |eng | 2010-08-03 | Author:Jeff Deck; Benjamin D. Herson

Then we stopped. LONLEY? asked the chalkboard. YOU GOT A FRIEND IN BOOZE. Josh was the one who’d pointed out the sign. We peered at the specimen, and I felt ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2014 )
The Best American Travel Writing 2011 by Sloane Crosley; Jason Wilson
mobi |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Sloane Crosley; Jason Wilson

Aside from three-card monte and Wall Street, Manhattan doesn't have much in the way of gambling. New Yorkers travel south to Atlantic City, or up to Connecticut, to gamble. Long ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2014 )
Running Dry by Jonathan Waterman
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Jonathan Waterman

The next day, bobbing in a boat next to the “Keep Out” signs 200 yards upstream of the dam, I’m talking with the director of the Glen Canyon Institute (GCI), ...
( Category: Women in History March 25,2014 )
Notes From the Hard Shoulder by James May
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:James May

THE RANGE ROVER OF OUTSTANDING NATURAL BEAUTY Today, from the window of my office, I have an uninterrupted view of my 1992 Range Rover Vogue SE. I think it may ...
( Category: Performing Arts March 25,2014 )
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Byson
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Bill Byson

Notes from a Small Island CHAPTER FIFTEEN I WENT TO RETFORD. I CAN'T EXPLAIN IT. THROUGH MY MORNING ablutions, the gentle removal of the tissues from my swollen nostrils, through ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 25,2014 )
Falling Off the Map by Pico Iyer
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-09 | Author:Pico Iyer

And so, in time, I came to settle into the rhythms of this silent country, to come to know its patterns so well that the days began to pick up ...
( Category: Humor March 25,2014 )
Do Travel Writers Go to Hell? by Thomas Kohnstamm
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-04-22 | Author:Thomas Kohnstamm

After a few minutes of the novela, a solid Brazilian melodrama of tears, betrayal, unrequited love, and product placement, Beatriz leads me outside and through a narrow alleyway that runs ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 25,2014 )
Crossing the Heart of Africa: An Odyssey of Love and Adventure by Julian Smith
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-07 | Author:Julian Smith

Ewart Grogan Gertrude Watt, the inspiration for Grogan’s legendary transcontinental trek Grogan’s sketch of Arthur “Harry” Sharp, his companion for part of the journey Grogan fumbling for his 4-bore rifle ...
( Category: African-American & Black March 25,2014 )
City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:John Berendt

24 April 1988 Dear [Sir], I wish to inform you that it is my firm intention to dissolve the “Ezra Pound Foundation.” I have revoked the donation of my house ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 25,2014 )
Never a City So Real by Alex Kotlowitz
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-07-06 | Author:Alex Kotlowitz

Andrea Lyon is a mad lawyer, which, as the woman on the cell phone intuited about her friend’s attorney, probably explains Lyon’s success as well. In nineteen capital cases, she ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 25,2014 )
Naked in Dangerous Places by Cash Peters
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Cash Peters

The show premiered four weeks later. On my birthday, as a matter of fact, June 6. A coincidence everyone was quick to label a lucky omen. It's hard to encapsulate ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )

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