Travel Writing
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Stephen Fry In America

Well-known residents and natives: Herbert Hoover (31st President), Mamie Eisenhower, ‘Buffalo’ Bill Cody, Grant ‘American Gothic’ Wood, Meredith ‘Music Man’ Wilson, Bix Beiderbecke, Bill Bryson, Johnny Carson, George ‘Superman’ Reeves, ...
( Category: Travel Writing October 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2005-06-02 | Author:Moore, Tim [Tim Moore]

Ten The clouds were still wisping past the moon as I buckled the saddle, frogmarched from slumber by swishes and shuffles and the slam of the big front door. When ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides October 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 1982-01-02 | Author:Heat-Moon, William Least [Heat-Moon, William Least]

Money half gone, I’d come up with a bit of epistemological small change. Not knowing what else to do, I drove off westward. The highway rolled out of the mountains ...
( Category: Travel Writing October 25,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jon Krakauer [Krakauer, Jon]

CHAPTER TWELVE ANNANDALE Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, an obsequious attendance, but ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers October 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-19 | Author:Amitav Ghosh [Ghosh, Amitav]

17 EVEN THOUGH KHAMEES never mentioned the subject himself, everyone around him seemed to know that he was haunted by his childlessness. Once, on a cold winter’s day, I dropped ...
( Category: Middle East October 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-24 | Author:Susan Corbett [Corbett, Susan]

Chapter 19 Flood June/Shabar I awoke in the night to the pounding of heavy rain on the tin roof. It had rained the past three nights, chasing me off the ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers October 24,2017 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2012-03-18 | Author:Peter Mayle [Mayle, Peter]

One: The Arrival One must always arrive as conspicuously as possible, preferably on the back of a crimson Kawasaki 750 motorcycle driven by a young man in head-to-toe black leather ...
( Category: Travel Writing October 24,2017 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2012-05-22 | Author:Andrew Blackwell

Bravo Watch was quiet that night. There were rumors that Mary was heartbroken to have turned back, that she considered it a major blow to Project Kaisei. It was impossible ...
( Category: Travel Writing October 24,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Darwin

September 13th.—We left the baths of Cauquenes, and, rejoining the main road, slept at the Rio Claro. From this place we rode to the town of San Fernando. Before arriving ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology October 24,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-29 | Author:Eric Simons

Darwin’s was the second voyage of the Beagle to South America. The first trip departed England in 1825 under the command of Captain Pringle Stokes. Like many other travelers, Stokes ...
( Category: Travel Writing October 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Stephen Fry [Fry, Stephen]

* * * IOWA KEY FACTS Abbreviation: IA Nickname: The Hawkeye State, the Tall Corn State Capital: Des Moines Flower: Wild Rose Tree: Oak Bird: Eastern Goldfinch Rock: Geode Motto: ...
( Category: Travel Writing October 24,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-03-04 | Author:Chuck Palahniuk [Palahniuk, Chuck]

(a postcard from 1991) When I first got beat up, Gina asked if any of the attackers was named David. She was blaming everything on what she called "the Curse ...
( Category: Americas October 24,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1999-02-14 | Author:Bill Bryson [Bryson, Bill]

Eighteen miles was a heroic distance for us, but we were filthy and trail-weary and more than ready for a town, and so we plodded on. We reached Front Royal ...
( Category: Travel Writing October 24,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-05-11 | Author:Jennifer Baggett; Amanda Pressner; Holly C. Corbett

Amanda and Jen sat next to me on my spartan twin bed inside the dorm. Their stuffed backpacks leaned against the wall beside us, an unwelcome reminder that they’d soon ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides October 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-15 | Author:Savannah Grace [Grace, Savannah]

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “Shouldn’t we get some more food or something?” Mom had asked, ready to go hunting around before boarding the train. “Nah, we’ll be fine! They always have people running ...
( Category: Ethnic & National October 24,2017 )