Travel Writing
epub |eng | 1985-01-01 | Author:Richard Holmes [Holmes, Richard]

He did not make me uneasy. Anyone who had grown up in the Sixties could understand Shelley’s attitude to marriage and divorce; his principle that love was “free”; his ideal ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides October 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-30 | Author:Jonathan Raban [Raban, Jonathan]

To which he added the characteristic footnote: “It is true about the old dog, at least I saw it reported somewhere.” New York Review of Books, November 2000 Battleground of ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence October 15,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-10-14 | Author:Margaret Laurence [Laurence, Margaret]

The evenings were cold. After dinner we sat in the brushwood hut, shivering in our sweaters and jackets, and listening to the squeaky trembling voice that issued from Arabetto’s old ...
( Category: Africa October 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-01 | Author:Boorman, Charley [Boorman, Charley]

It took me an age to get to sleep. I’m not sure why exactly, but after a great day on the bike I lay in my hammock with all sorts ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides October 15,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-25 | Author:Jonathan Raban [Raban, Jonathan]

The weatherman had been right: there was no wind at all. He hadn’t mentioned precipitation, though, and for once the American word for rain seemed an exact description of what ...
( Category: United States October 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-15 | Author:Corinne Hofmann [Corinne Hofmann]

The longer we talk, the more relaxed everybody gets, and eventually I pluck up the courage to ask Lketinga how he felt when he realized I wasn’t coming back. He ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers October 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-05 | Author:Philip k Dick [Dick, Philip k]

XI HE AWOKE--and saw, standing by the bed, two figures, a man and a woman. "Be quiet," Pat McClain said softly, indicating Carol. The man beside her held the heat-needle ...
( Category: Science Fiction October 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:James Hamilton-Paterson [James Hamilton-Paterson]

What has Manila to do with Tiwarik? I have tried to suggest how utterly remote is an islet off an island which is itself off an island province. Yet even ...
( Category: Worship & Devotion October 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-14 | Author:Stefan Zweig [Stefan Zweig]

OBSERVATION USING JACOB’S STAFF Woodcarving from Aspian’s Introductio Geographica * God save you, sir, captain-general and lord and good company. * to see if there were a passage * to ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers October 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-17 | Author:Phillip Lopate [Lopate, Phillip]

16 EXCURSUS SAILORS AND MERCHANT SEAMEN IN NEW YORK Arm in arm they careened up Pearl Street under the drenching rain. Bars yawned bright to them at the corners of ...
( Category: United States October 14,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-05-31 | Author:Sandi Toksvig [Toksvig, Sandi]

The next morning I was buzzing on a combination of caffeine and Sleep Rite. I didn’t know whether to sleep or salsa. The TV offered me five channels direct to ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides October 14,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-10-27 | Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez [Marquez, Gabriel Garcia]

TWELVE DAZZLED BY SO MANY and such marvelous inventions, the people of Macondo did not know where their amazement began. They stayed up all night looking at the pale electric ...
( Category: Magical Realism October 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-11-11 | Author:Daniel L. Everett

8 A Teenager Named Túkaaga: Murder and Society Joaquim, like the other residents of the Apurinã Indian settlement of Ponto Sete on the Maici, had arisen early and gone about ...
( Category: Anthropology October 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 1972-10-13 | Author:Robin L. Graham

7 Drumbeats and Bridal Suite WHAT TO EXPECT OF AFRICA? Hollywood had fixed images in my mind of tangled jungles and lions under the bed, of natives dancing around big ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers October 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-10-13 | Author:Lonely Planet [Monagan, David]

Return to beginning of chapter Chapter 13 Where oh where had my own protective Paddy hat gone? A ride on a golf cart is supposed to be a tame affair, ...
( Category: Europe October 13,2017 )