Travel - General

...Forty years ago John Muir wrote to a friend; "I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer. . . . Civilization and fever, and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me, have not dimmed my glacial eyes, and I care to live only...

Black and White and Read All Over tells the story of the life of Norman Leonard Coates Junior, known other than for Legal Requirements as Len Coates, who was born on 24 April 1939 in the mining village of Cambois in Northumberland. The book...

This story is about a retired man who, looking for a hobby, gets introduced to cowboy action shooting. It traces his training sessions by an experienced shooter, with whom he enters into a romantic relationship. They traveled to different cowboy shooting locations and started...

"Barbara and Margaret were speakers at our yearly international conference at City Montessori School, the largest school in the world. We enjoyed their presence and we look forward to seeing them again" Shishir Srivastava, Head of International Relations, CMS, India-------------------------------------"From Japan I came to...

Portrait of a Servant of God is a devotional book based on the life of Theodore Bubeck and the letters he wrote to his family over a period of thirty years. Ted and his wife were pioneer missionary church planters from 1928 to 1960...

Beginning life in Northern Ireland, Marianne grew up in London during the fun-filled '60's. After working in beautiful Bermuda she became a naval wife and travelled extensively between New Zealand, England, Australia and Europe. Overcoming breast cancer 30 years ago she was determined to...

The year is 1988.The Cold War is ending.Europe's near-abroad unlocks.... and a 30-year-old Londoner attempts a road trip from France to western Turkey in a vintage Bentley.This journey unfolds into a circumnavigation of the Mediterranean Sea.For his next expedition, the author plans to ride...

This is the second book by M.P. Prabhakaran on his world-trotting experience. The first one, Capitalism Comes to Mao's Mausoleum, was published three years ago. This book is devoted exclusively to the 30-day tour he undertook through 10 countries of Europe in the summer...

Exam board: Cambridge Assessment International Education Level: A-level Subject: Geography First teaching: September 2016 First exams: Summer 2018 Reinforce and practise skills learned with step-by-step support from experts to help you achieve your maximum potential. - Improve your knowledge of geographical patterns, processes and...

The aim of this record of an individual's impressions of the recent Tibetan expedition is to convey some idea of the life we led in Tibet, the scenes through which we passed, and the strange people we fought and conquered. We killed several thousand...

The book is about the author's struggle and survival in a foreign country and establishes himself as a specialist clinician. Author has worked hard to raise the awareness of children and families' emotional and psychological needs and provide psychotherapeutic remedies along with medical remedies...

Woody enters a new dimension in his World as he travels on from Australia to New Zealand where his folks (the kids) join him. Their intention to travel via a family camper was somewhat tainted. They arrive during the Rugby World and were offered...

Author: Lois E. HunterISBN-10: 149909941XISBN-13: 9781499099416Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/25/2017Pages: 130Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d

Graham Michael Barton is an Englishman retired on a tiny island of less than three thousand souls in the Philippines. Emponet Barton Beach Resort and 60 per cent of the homes on Higatangan Island, Biliran, were destroyed by Yolanda. Two weeks after the super...

The Author has a unique, artistic and romantic mind, with a special way of seeing and describing the world, and this time a very special way of travelling, with no plan, no map, no idea, therefore thinking what could possibly go wrong? He describes...

There are many books that detail the lone golfer's ever-failing battles with the golf course. While Fluffed Chips Shouldn't Count again shows how the courses, despite their different natures and settings, continue to triumph, it also shows there is much solace in the companionship...

With the globalization of business, American snack maker Boltz Foods is expanding into world markets and a naïve American businessman who's never traveled abroad is selected to lead the way. Pursued by a Japanese competitor bent on sabotage, this comic adventure weaves in and...

This book is a collection of inspirational travel stories that span seventeen years of travel by the author, including human interest stories of people she interviewed. In a special chapter of "Traveling Back in Time," it also includes stories of genealogy and legends. While...

Still Cruising the High Seas is a sequel to Danny Leone's first autobiographical travel escape Once Upon a Cruise. This story chronicles his experiences employed in an interim position at a second rate cruise line while his company was building new deluxe ships in...

In Memoirs of Globetrotters, I write about Asians who have made lives in other countries other than their own viz. America, England, Australia, Italy and Malaysians. Some have left their mother country from an early age following their families on diplomatic postings. I also...

"It Happened in Brazil: Chronicle of a North American Researcher in Brazil II" is the English version of "Aconteceu no Brasil: Crônica de um Pesquisador Norte - Americano II." The book is a continuation of the first volume in the series published in 2012...

It is strange which incidents in a long life will stick in your mind and recall in detail when stimulated by pictures, smells, or word triggers that bring to mind the occasion. This book is a collection of such memories, each reflecting the emotions...

When author Ginny Brooks's grandson, Andrew, told her he was getting married in Santa Rosa, California, she and her husband, Phil, weren't sure they'd be able to attend. They lived in Reidsville, North Carolina, and Ginny didn't fly. Then they decided to make an...

In May, 1970 Jan's life as she knew it was turned upside down. Aged 27 and newly married, Jan was completely taken by surprise when her husband Mike announced he'd been posted to a then unheard of desert kingdom called Dubai for work. This...

An abrupt, core shaking, spiritual experience leads author Hector Jesus Arencibia, a successful real estate agent from Miami, Florida to suddenly abandon his life and travel the entire world on one way tickets. It is a search for his true self and to discover...

This is a book for young people thinking of travelling for the first time. Not your average guidebook to overseas travel. In it Ms Murray informally and honestly describes her experiences as a female backpacker in North Africa, Europe, Southeast Asia and South America.Author:...

Doing the London Walk invites you to share the joy of discovering London in a series of leisurely walks from Whitehall to Tower Hill, and from there into the streets and lanes of the historic city. You will meet a rich cavalcade of people...

Weekly letters from a leprosy hospital in the foothills of the Himalayas form the basis of this memo of an English family living in Nepal in the 1970s. Battling with language learning; bartering in the bazaar; tackling home schooling for two boys and helping...

Learning to Cry will have you traipsing through the bush of South Africa, living the opulent Orange County, California lifestyle and enjoying a pint in middle class England. The sudden loss of her father in the middle of Africa creates a stirring in the...

Author: B. S. HaydenISBN-10: 1479745677ISBN-13: 9781479745678Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/12/2013Pages: 64Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.15d

Author: Froylan TiscareñoISBN-10: 1479729965ISBN-13: 9781479729968Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/17/2012Pages: 492Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.92lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.25d

Author: Paul BouchardISBN-10: 1475937350ISBN-13: 9781475937350Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/27/2012Pages: 100Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d

Originally published in 1899, this work is a collection of writings by the American author Lafcadio Hearn. Hearn was a scholar of Japanese culture and society, and this book is a collection of essays, observations, and short stories on the darker side of the...

A companion journal for hikers. Log up to 21 different adventures in this durable pocket notebook. Each entry log has been thoughtfully designed for you to compile key characteristics of each journey; from specs to reflections. This 48 page notebooks is the perfect gift...

Author: Brian S. EdwardsISBN-10: 1469177463ISBN-13: 9781469177465Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/27/2012Pages: 310Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.34lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

Author: Guy GauthierISBN-10: 1465361243ISBN-13: 9781465361240Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1900Pages: 338Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.76d

Run for Your Life is the story of a common man's journey through a life of athletics. See how involvement in sport can contribute to an understanding of other cultures, in raising a family, creating unique social networks, and how it enhances one's life....

The stories told in this book may set many readers thinking. For instance, the Massacuraman, the Water Baby, and the Moon Gaser all have some relevance to creatures here in the United States-namely Big Foot, mermaids, and the Moon Gaser, as related to old...

I had been in the building business for over thirty-five years and have worked variously as Foreman, Superintendent, and Project Manager on a multitude of construction projects. Before this I ran my own general contracting company which specialized in restoration and renovation.For many years...

A true and fantastic story about the come back from serious health problems that Kenny incurred, he fought back to good health to walk all over the world. A must read that will tug at the strings of everyone's hearts and emotion's.Author: Kenny TaylorISBN-10:...

Author: Clive L. a. PetersISBN-10: 1456780646ISBN-13: 9781456780647Publisher: Authorhouse UKLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/03/2011Pages: 260Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.59d

Mindi S Johnson-Eluwole was just like everyone else, until one day she sold her house, her car and gave away her worldly belongings to fulfill her life's dream to backpack around the world. Seven years and 117 countries later, she is ready to share...

ViVACE 2 is a selected collection of poetry, prose, travel commentaries, art and photography edited by Christine Neilson. A Special Tribute to George Hitchcock, poet, teacher, activist, painter, actor, playwright, publisher of kayak literary journal is included in this issue.Author: Christine NeilsonISBN-10: 145208758XISBN-13: 9781452087580Publisher:...

I had always wanted to visit Cuba. The mystique surrounding Castro and Che had piqued my curiosity and imagination. What was there about this tiny country which lay just 80 miles from Florida that prompted our government to treat it as a threat to...

www.gioiettakuo.com Idyllic childhood in the Himalayan foothills of Chengdu, Sichuan, with pet panda. Exciting hike across a bamboo suspension bridge to camp by a Buddhist monastery in Kham. Tibet. Harrowing tales of her feudal relatives - her cousin who had her arm chopped off...

Author: Shaun RaffertyISBN-10: 1452065721ISBN-13: 9781452065724Publisher: Authorhouse UKLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/31/2010Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d

A young reporter wants so badly to be a foreign correspondent that he leaves his job in the U.S. and heads for Scandinavia to try his luck. He encounters a weird, white world and quickly finds himself covering the Cold War between Finland and...

The book has been written to tell our experiences of 15 years in Finland and to give a little taste of this country to people who do not know it. It is not a view from a short time visitor. It is a love...

The book is about my life and how I ended up settling in the United Kingdom. The book talks about why I came to do my MSc at UEA, Norwich, how I went back to Zambia and then came back to the UK to...

Author: Eric Sorila-RothbergISBN-10: 145006003XISBN-13: 9781450060035Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/16/2010Pages: 222Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d