Travel Writing
epub |eng | | Author:Paula Weideger

15 Revisions At 8:50 A.M. on the twenty-seventh of August, four days before we were due to leave for Venice, la contessa Françoise Donà Marsot telephoned. I give her full ...
( Category: Historical March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-06 | Author:Thomas Hughes [Hughes, Thomas]

The Natives, Rugby, Tennessee. When all is said and sung, there is nothing so interesting as the man and woman who dwell on any corner of the earth; so, before ...
( Category: Antiques & Collectibles March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-10 | Author:Graham Greene

TABASCAN SUNDAY The anonymity of Sunday seems peculiarly unnatural in Mexico: a man going hunting in the marshes with his dog and his gun, a young people’s fiesta, shops closing ...
( Category: Classics March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-12 | Author:Thom Wheeler

It might seem strange, even impossible that in the course of one month the whole of the novel might be written… but it had been growing in me for several ...
( Category: Travel Writing Reference March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-12 | Author:Michael Tucker

Mayes and Bruno “You know, you could really lighten this place up,” he said, his eyes darting around the room. “I had plans to knock this wall down so that ...
( Category: Homebrewing, Distilling & Wine Making March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-01 | Author:Peter Stothard [STOTHARD, PETER]

He wrote on other subjects which scholars have reconstructed from the first discoveries at this palatial seaside villa. Much effort has been devoted to explaining his charred thoughts on sound ...
( Category: Historical March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Francis Parkman [Parkman, Francis]

CHAPTER X. 1713-1724. SEBASTIEN RALE. Boundary Disputes.--Outposts of Canada.--The Earlier and Later Jesuits.--Religion and Politics.--The Norridgewocks and their Missionary.--A Hollow Peace.--Disputed Land Claims.--Council at Georgetown.--Attitude of Rale.--Minister and Jesuit.--The Indians ...
( Category: Canadian March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:Ed Stafford

‘The camels simply couldn’t comprehend so much water. They would stare at it, walk a few paces, then turn and stare again. 195 days after leaving Glen Helen, near Alice ...
( Category: Equipment & Supplies March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-15 | Author:GEORGE M. TABER

CHAPTER EIGHT Rioja, Spain During the Middle Ages, Rioja in northern Spain was the crossroads of civilizations. The cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, a short distance west on ...
( Category: Wine March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Isabella Dusi [Dusi, Isabella]

CHAPTER ELEVEN In the End the Ball is Always Round! Montalcino’s green and whites are a passionate football team with like-minded tifosi, fans, who, with a history of predominantly verbal ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Denis Gregory

12 Native flora Herbal medicine is big business. More than 50 per cent of Australians use the plant substances at least once a year in an effort to stay healthier, ...
( Category: Humor & Satire March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-10 | Author:W. H. Hudson [HUDSON, W. H.]

Chapter 12 TO FOLLOW IMPETUOUS, BIRD-LIKE RIMA IN HER DESCENT OF the hill would have been impossible, nor had I any desire to be a witness of old Nuflo’s discomfiture ...
( Category: Classics March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 1835-12-14 | Author:Washington Irving [Irving, Washington]

Chapter 29 RESUMING their course on the following morning, Mr. Hunt and his companions continued on westward through a rugged region of hills and rocks, but diversified in many places ...
( Category: United States March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-11 | Author:Regis Debray [Régis Debray]

VISITING THE “sanctuaries of art” is usually rather like going to a private view: a glance at whatever is hanging on the wall between handshakes and greetings. The canvases fill ...
( Category: Humor March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-10 | Author:Julia Whitty

I have often seen them emerge from a wave, fly across the trough and enter the next wave without apparent change in their method of propulsion. Again I have seen ...
( Category: Oceanography March 12,2020 )