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Travel Writing.
Author : Andrew Eames
Publisher : Random House
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 27,2 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Danube River
ISBN : 055277507X
Travel Writing.
Author : Andrew Eames
Publisher : Random House
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 18,27 MB
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1446421384
The Danube is Europe's Amazon. It flows through more countries than any other river on Earth - from the Black Forest in Germany to Europe's farthest fringes, where it joins the Black Sea in Romania. Andrew Eames' journey along its length brings us face to face with the Continent's bloodiest history and its most pressing issues of race and identity. As he travels - by bicycle, horse, boat and on foot - Eames finds himself seeking a bed for the night with minor royalty, hitching a ride on a Serbian barge captained by a man called Attila and getting up close and personal with a bull in rural Romania. He meets would-be kings and walks with gypsies, and finally rows his way beyond the borders of Europe entirely...
Author : Kate Coombs
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 40,62 MB
Release : 2012-03-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 081187284X
Collection of poems about the sea, accompanied by watercolors by the artist Meilo So.
Author : John Marriner
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 36,65 MB
Release : 1968
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 13,30 MB
Release : 2008-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1400034582
In Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts, acclaimed journalist Robert D. Kaplan continues his exploration of the American military's challenging and varied commitments around the world. From protecting sea lanes, to providing disaster relief, to preparing for potential military confrontation with North Korea and Iran, Kaplan describes the astonishing, vital, and often unacknowledged operations regularly performed by American military personnel in the air, at sea, and on the ground. Vivid and illuminating, this book takes us deep into the highly technical and exotic cultures of the armed forces, telling soldiers' stories from the perspective of the troops on the ground.
Author : Andrew Eames
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,11 MB
Release : 2006-05-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1590209168
“A winning blend of travelogue and literary biography” by a British journalist who travels the journey Agatha Christie once did from London to Iraq. (Entertainment Weekly) With her marriage to her first husband over, Agatha Christie decided to take a much needed holiday; the Caribbean had been her intended destination, but a conversation at a dinner party with a couple who had just returned from Iraq changed her mind. Five days later she was off on a completely different trajectory. Merging literary biography with travel adventure, and ancient history with contemporary world events, Andrew Eames tells a riveting tale and reveals fascinating and little-known details of this exotic chapter in the life of Agatha Christie. His own trip from London to Baghdad--a journey much more difficult to make in 2002 with the political unrest in the Middle East and the war in Iraq, than it was in 1928--becomes intertwined with Agatha's, and the people he meets could have stepped out of a mystery novel. Fans of Agatha Christie will delight in Eames' description of the places and events that appeared in and influenced her fiction--and armchair travelers will thrill in the exotica of the journey itself. “Agatha Christie fans, as well as connoisseurs of fine travel writing, will relish British journalist Eames's gripping, humorous and eye-opening account of his train and bus trip across Europe and the Middle East on the eve of the second Gulf War.” Publisher’s Weekly Second;Iraq;Gulf;war;Kurds;Armenians;Palestinians;English;travel;writer;writing;1928;bestselling;mystery;author;English;crime;writer;Europe;passenger;train;memoir;literary;biography;adventure;travel;history;autobiography;holiday;Middle;East;Damascus;Ur;Syria;archaeology TRV026090 TRAVEL / Special Interest / Literary BIO007000 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures BIO026000 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs TRV015000 TRAVEL / Middle East / General 9781468306415 Candlemoth Ellory, R.J.
Author : David Armitage
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 39,42 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108423183
Freshly presents world history through its oceans and seas in uniquely wide-ranging, original chapters by leading experts in their fields.
Author : Michael Dorris
Publisher : Warner Books (NY)
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780446387873
Moving backward in time, Dorris's critically acclaimed debut novel is a lyrical saga of three generations of Native American women beset by hardship and torn by angry secrets.
Author : Andrew Beattie
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,7 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0199768358
A detailed history of the Danube river.
Author : Charles Francis King
Publisher :
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 40,21 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Geography
ISBN :