Travel : Adventure

World travelers and armchair tourists who want to explore the mythology and archaeology of the ruins, sanctuaries, mountains, lost cities, and temples of ancient civilizations will find this guide ideal. Detailed here are the monuments and sites where ancient peoples once gathered to perform sacred rituals and ceremonies to worship various gods and to achieve spiritual enlightenment. more...

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A moving portrait of Africa from Poland's most celebrated foreign correspondent - a masterpiece from a modern master. Famous for being in the wrong places at just the right times, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa in 1957, at the beginning of the end of colonial rule - the "sometimes dramatic and painful, sometimes enjoyable and jubilant" rebirth of a continent. more...

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Life is not going well for Will Randall, a burned out, thirtyish teacher in an English public school. He's tired of his students, they're tired of him, and his girlfriend wants to call it quits. But things are about to change. Will has a fleeting conversation on a cricket field with a doddering, 84 year-old man known as "the Commander" who has retired to England after running a cocoa plantation in the South Pacific for thirty years. Six months later the Commander has died and his will is read: he wants someone to travel to his lost, long-missed island--where his old plantation has fallen to ruins--and devise a way for the native people to support themselves. This way they might avoid poverty, build a new school, and even fend off the developers. It's a mission of noblesse oblige--yet possibly a fool's errand as well. Will half-willingly agrees to go. Spread lazily across the Tropic of Capricorn, the Solomon Islands are not so much the Pacific archipelago that time forgot, as the one that forgets time. And as Will quickly discovers, it is a place where timekeeping is governed by the sun and moon, where schedules and deadlines do not translate into the local dialect of "pijin" English. Will's new home is Menali, a fishing village so remote it can only be reached by motorized canoe. His house there is constructed of leaves and stilts. The people of the village, some of whose cheeks are engraved with the rising sun, are welcoming, for they remember the Commander, and still practice a pagan Anglicanism in a church he built for them in 1956. They live on fish of every sort, mud crabs, yams, Ngali nuts, even the honeycomb of termites. Here and there in the jungle lurk the mossy skeletons of WWII tanks. Randall decides that the villagers might be able to raise chickens. It's low-tech, low-capital, and environmentally low impact. But--as the attached excerpt shows--finding live chicken eggs for hatching proves wildly difficult. Wil more...

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Mark Twain (Samuel Longhorn Clements, 1835-1910) was one of the best and most popular humorists, lecturers, and writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Twain was always drawing on his experience for his stories and gathering new experiences through his travels. Twain showed the rare ability to entertain both children and adults with his tales. Tom Sawyer and Huckberry Finn are the two characters for which Twain is known. It could be said that Tom Sawyer was the boyish side of Twain that grew up while Huckbleberry Finn was the boyish side of Twain that never wanted to grow up. more...

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Travel Andalusia, Spain - Guide, Maps, and Phrasebook. Includes: Cordoba, Granada,. Seville, and more. An illustrated guide, phrasebook, and maps. Indulge Yourself with a personal. tour guide on Your PDA. Features.:.; Fully illustrated.; Historical overviews.; Interesting facts.; Street and attractions maps.; Museums hours and ticket infor.; Restaurant information.; Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases.; Access the guide anytime, anywhere - at home, on the train, in the subway.; Designed for optimal navigation on PDA, Smartphone, Tablet, and desktop devices.; Formatted to display on all electronic devices including Smartphones and Mobile Devices with a small display.; Plan the trip during a flight.; Use the guide as postcards to show places you visited.; Add Bookmarks.; Text annotation and mark-up.; Automatic synchronization between the handheld and the desktop PC. You. could read half of the book on the handheld, then finish reading on the desktop. Annotations and drawings are also synchronized. Table of Contents. Andalusia: Overview | History. | Divisions | Music | People | Nationalism | Cuisine | Al-Andalus | Golden Age. | Geography: Rivers | Mountains | Bay of Gibraltar | White Towns. Maps: Cities: Córdoba. | Granada | Seville | Andalusia: Provinces | Sevilla | Costa del Sol. | Spain: General | Detailed | Provinces | Railways. Transport: Airports | Highways. Spanish Phrasebook: About. | Intro | Phraselist | Andalusian Spanish. PROVINCES OF ANDALUSIA. Córdoba Province: Overview | Córdoba: Intro. | History | Get In | Get Around | Sleep | Eat | See | Do | Buy | Going Out. Granada Province: Overview | Granada: Intro | Get In. | Sleep | Eat | Do | See | History | Mudejar Style | Other Cities: Guadix. | Almuñecar | Motril | Baza | Montefrío. Seville Province: Overview | Seville: Intro | History. | Get in | Sleep | Eat | Drink | See | Do | La Cartuja | Buy | Get Out. | Festivals | Motto | Sports | Other Cities: Utrera | Lebrija | Dos Hermanas. more...

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