Travel Writing
epub |eng | 2016-11-20 | Author:Gretel Ehrlich

What we may miss in human interaction here we make up for by rubbing elbows with wild animals. Their florid, temperamental lives parallel ours, as do their imperfect societies. They ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology November 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 1974-02-01 | Author:Pirsig, Robert M. [Pirsig, Robert M.]

I was talking about the first wave of crystallization outside of rhetoric that resulted from Phædrus’ refusal to define Quality. He had to answer the question, If you can’t define ...
( Category: Buddhism November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1840-01-01 | Author:Dana, Richard Henry [Dana, Richard Henry]

CHAPTER XXVII The Sunday Wash-up—On Shore—A Set-to—A Grandee—“Sail Ho!”—A Fandango The only other vessel in port was the Russian government bark, from Asitka, mounting eight guns, (four of which we ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1900-01-01 | Author:Slocum, Joshua [Slocum, Joshua]

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: Water Sports November 11,2018 )
epub | | | Author:James Lenfestey [Lenfestey, James P.]

CHAPTER NINETEEN FIRST ADVENTURE IN HERMIT HUNTING The next morning, Bill led us on an expedition into the nearby Chungnan Mountains, where his own hermit-hunting journey had begun more than ...
( Category: Ethnic & National November 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2002-10-22 | Author:A. M. Homes

“Do you want to write for a TV show, do you want a staff position, because if that’s what you want, if that’s what would do it for you, if ...
( Category: Specialty Travel October 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2002-10-22 | Author:William Kittredge

Having bought some ears of variously colored corn, for kitchen decorations in Montana, and a brilliantly patterned red sash, Annick and I walked among ancient houses at Old Orabi, the ...
( Category: Travel Writing October 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-04 | Author:Lafcadio Hearn

Only a mockery of sleep! But the vow had been violated, the sacred purpose unfulfilled! Humiliated, penitent, but resolved, the as­cet­ic drew from his girdle a keen knife, and with ...
( Category: Genre Fiction October 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-01 | Author:Evelyn Waugh [Waugh, Evelyn]

BRITISH EMPIRE One Pure mischance had brought me to Aden, and I expected to dislike it. I had, in fact, a fairly clear picture in my mind of what it ...
( Category: Africa October 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2003-10-07 | Author:Tim Parks [Parks, Tim]

19 I morti TO PUT YOUR car in the garage under Via Colombare 10, you inch along a crazy-paved drive the opposite side of the palazzina to the garden, then ...
( Category: Travel Writing October 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-19 | Author:Gideon Lewis-Kraus [Gideon Lewis-Kraus]

I BOW AT THE MAIN ARCHWAY to T12 and a retiree with a Hubble-lensed camera takes a picture and gives me a milk candy for my efforts. I sit and ...
( Category: Travel Writing October 20,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-19 | Author:Sean Mallen [Mallen, Sean]

In Muslim countries, the period after Friday prayers often sees protests. In Cairo, on this Friday, the plan was to stage a “Last Chance Million-Man” rally in Tahrir. Last chance, ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides October 16,2018 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2018-10-14 | Author:Simmel, Georg; Stone, Will; [Georg Simmel]

VENICE (1907) BEYOND ALL NATURALISM, which imposes on art the law of external things, there prevails a demand for truth which the work of art must fulfil, even though it ...
( Category: Architecture October 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2002-10-14 | Author:Paul Gogarty [GOGARTY, PAUL]

Freight-carrying and Pre-industrial Navigations Adjacent to the lock, a bridleway skirts a two-mile lunar landscape known as St Aidens opencast mine. It looks as if a large comet has crash-landed ...
( Category: Travel Writing October 15,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mark James Owens [Mark]

12. The Commerce of Understanding Mark "Time" has ceased, "Space" has vanished. We now live in a global village. —MARSHALL MCLUHAN "THEY SAY YOU NEVER got a permit to run ...
( Category: Biological Sciences October 14,2018 )