Travel Writing
epub |eng | 2016-09-04 | Author:E. M. Clowes [Clowes, E. M.]

CHAPTER VII ALIEN LIFE Melbourne is not a cosmopolitan city. It neither lies in the direct route of globe-trotters, who will, indeed, often miss the whole of Australia and pass ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Aimé Tschiffely [Tschiffely, Aimé]

Quito We had a good time in this quaint and interesting city. The horses enjoyed themselves in an alfalfa field some three miles out of town, while I stayed in ...
( Category: Horses March 15,2020 )
epub | | 0101-01-01 | Author:Clive Cussler & Craig Dirgo [Cussler, Clive & Dirgo, Craig]

The Battle of Charleston. The Keokuk upper left, the Patupsco right, and the Weehawken center (Clive Cussler) The sinking of the Keokuk after she was struck by ninety-two Confederate shells ...
( Category: Ships March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Clive Cussler & Craig Dirgo [Cussler, Clive & Dirgo, Craig]

“We’re not out of the woods yet,” cautioned Dixon. “Take up the crank. I want to put another three hundred Yards between us and Housatonic before the Union fleet is ...
( Category: History March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-10-04 | Author:Cathy N. Davidson [Davidson, Cathy N.]

9 GOING HOME It’s a land of blue-eyed giants. Men more than six feet tall stride by, arms swinging, voices booming. Kowai, I think (Frightening). “Gaijin!” I want to call ...
( Category: Japanese March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-28 | Author:English Teacher X [Teacher X, English]

It was just beautiful, man. I reamed 'em out. There had been an incident where they'd asked me to stay after class because a popular "man in the street" program ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-20 | Author:Mark Arax

* * * — In the winter of 1935, Edward Hyatt, the state engineer who had authored a report titled “Water Is the Life Blood of California,” sat in front ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-30 | Author:Marco Polo [Polo, Marco]

( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 1920-01-01 | Author:James Norman Hall & Charles Nordhoff [Hall, James Norman]

Chapter X - Costly Hospitality FOR an authentic test of one's capacity for solitude—or better, perhaps, for convincing proof of the lack of it—two conditions are essential: complete isolation—that goes ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:Julia Blackburn [Blackburn, Julia]

Shouting for Marchand to come down, ‘Mamzelle Marchand’—as he called this gentle-faced man—‘Mamzelle Marchand come down, the sun is shining’ and then Noverraz, Pierron, the cook, the groom, the Chinese, ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:John Gierach

12 ROAD TRIP The price of gas that summer (at historic highs through most of July) sucked some of the glamour out of a thousand-mile road trip, but not so ...
( Category: Rhythm & Blues March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-18 | Author:Toby Ferris

In 1944 my father was operated on in Toronto for an appendicitis under local anaesthetic. He said it was unpleasant, but there was an attractive nurse mopping his brow while ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-19 | Author:Emma Larkin

( Category: Atmospheric Sciences March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-07 | Author:Robert Green Ingersoll [Ingersoll, Robert Green]

PROTECTION AND FREE TRADE. Question. Do you take much interest in politics, Colonel Ingersoll? Answer. I take as much interest in politics as a Republican ought who expects nothing and ...
( Category: Music March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-02-01 | Author:Herodotus,

Fish-eaters and the Crystal Coffin It was against Amasis1 that Cyrus’ son Cambyses2 marched at the head of an army drawn from various subject nations and including both Ionian and ...
( Category: Greece March 14,2020 )