Travel Writing
epub |eng | | Author:Rebecca Loncraine

I think he meant that the South Island landscape looks empty at first, until you start to see its details. I am learning to look at the sky, to adjust ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science May 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-19 | Author:Nancy Pfeiffer

The Chacabuco Valley had never been forested or burned. Grassland was the natural state of the open steppe. At the far end of this gigantic valley, near the Tamango Reserve, ...
( Category: South America May 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-17 | Author:Chris Santella

Getting There: Southwest Harbor is approximately 140 miles north of Portland, which is served by many major carriers, including Continental, Delta, and United Airlines. It’s about 50 miles from Bangor, ...
( Category: Water Sports May 21,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-18 | Author:Zbigniew Herbert

( Category: Essays & Correspondence May 18,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lisa Dickey

(L-R) Me, Tanya Sitnikova, Natasha Maximova, and Yura Alekseev on the deck of the Merlin, 2015 (PHOTO BY LISA DICKEY) We watched as the three divers leapt into the water, ...
( Category: Russia May 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-15 | Author:Colin Angus

Day 30: October 12, 1999 It was a delight following the Instinct boats, but not without its moments—the worst when we got trapped in a hole. The current spun the ...
( Category: Water Sports May 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-22 | Author:Adam Weymouth

The bedrock of Rock Island, out there in the middle of the river, was once earmarked as the foundation for what John F. Kennedy declared would be “the greatest dam ...
( Category: Travel Writing May 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-15 | Author:Mark Adams

* * * — If you were to take a map of the Pacific Ocean and trace a rough horseshoe-shaped line starting in New Zealand, jogging left through Indonesia, then ...
( Category: Travel Writing May 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-27 | Author:Victoria Lomasko

MAY 7, 2012 WOMAN: “Why are there riot police everywhere?” POLICEMAN: “Because of the folk celebrations.” Putin was reinaugurated as president on May 7, so disgruntled citizens began holding round-the-clock ...
( Category: Politics & Government May 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-13 | Author:Stephen Clarke

Prozac of the People In July 2004, the head of France’s biggest commercial television channel, TF1, said that his programmes existed to sell Coca-Cola. Patrick Le Lay gave an interview ...
( Category: Humor May 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-02-10 | Author:Jon Krakauer

It’s a luminous fall afternoon in downtown Cham, and I’m sitting on the terrace of the Brasserie L’M, loitering over a strawberry crepe and a café au lait, wondering whether ...
( Category: Mountaineering May 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-12 | Author:Leon McCarron

CHAPTER 30 A CHANGE IN SCENERY Aside from RVs, the road to the Badlands was characterised by many enormous signs advertising the nationally famous ‘Wall Drug’. Wall Drug is little ...
( Category: Specialty Travel May 12,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-06-22 | Author:John McPhee

Henri Vaillancourt once had a dead bear in his room at college. This emerges as we move north on the northernmost arm of Chesuncook Lake. Between the canoes, idle conversation ...
( Category: Travel Writing May 8,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Theroux

11 Tea with Muriel Spark Muriel Spark had a bad leg and an amazing reason for it. But her explanation seemed so like a plot twist in one of her ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence May 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Henri Cole

THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARY for James Lord called him “an intimate of Picasso and Giacometti,” and it reported that he is survived by “his longtime companion and adopted son.” ...
( Category: Surrealism May 5,2018 )