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The Man Who Walked Through Time
by Colin FletcherFletcher is the first man ever to walk the entire length of the Grand Canyon. This is the story of his journey, 2 months of struggle against heat and cold, lack of water, dwindling supplies, and almost impassable terrain. But more than a mere adventure story, this is also a spiritual odyssey during which one man began to understand mankind's unique place in the vastness of nature.
A Voyage to Abyssinia
by Jerome Lobo Samuel JohnsonHow Father Jerome Lobo brought Christianity to Abyssinia
Tour through the Eastern Counties of England
by Daniel DefoeTrip through the English countryside undertaken by the author in 1722
Viva Mexico! A Traveller's Account of Life in Mexico
by Charles Macomb FlandreauFirst published in 1908, this is a classic memoir about life in Mexico (from the point of a wealthy foreigner) in the years before the Revolution of 1910. Flandreau describes life on a coffee plantation, and attempts to explain Mexican character and folkways. Although much in this book is overtly racist by today's standards, Flandreau's observations are vivid and his storytelling is often compelling.
Hindi Lokbharati Digest class 10 - Maharashtra Board Guide: हिंदी लोकभारती डाइजेस्ट कक्षा 10 - महाराष्ट्र बोर्ड मार्गदर्शन
by Shri Navneetहिंदी लोकभारती नवनीत दसवीं कक्षा का पाठपुस्तक हिंदी भाषा में नवनीत एज्युकेशन लिमिटेड ने प्रकाशित किया गया है, इस पाठपुस्तक में गद्य, पद्य तथा पूरक पठन के सभी पाठों को यथायोग्य गद्यांश/पद्यांश में बाँटकर उन पर पाठ्यपुस्तक की एवं अन्य अनेक कृतियाँ दी गई हैं। कृतिपत्रिका के प्रारूप में कविता पर आधारित 6 अंकों का पद्य विश्लेषण प्रश्न समाहित किया गया है । प्रारूप में दिए गए मुद्दों के आधार पर सभी कविताओं का पद्य विश्लेषण किया गया है । कक्षा दसवीं की कृतिपत्रिका के प्रारूप में व्याकरण पर काफी जोर दिया गया है । इस बात को ध्यान में रखते हुए प्रस्तुत नवनीत में व्याकरण के विविध घटकों पर अनेक कृतियाँ हरएक गद्य-पद्य में दी गई हैं । पुस्तक के अंत में दिए गए ‘भाषा अध्ययन (व्याकरण) विभाग' में इन विविध घटकों को समझाया भी गया है ।
Leeludi Dharti part 2: લીલુડી ધરતી ભાગ 2
by Chunilal Mandiaલીલુડી ધરતી સામાજિક નવલકથા ભાગ ૧ અને ૨ માં વહેચાયેલી છે અને ભાગ ૨ માં ૩૮ પ્રકરણો આવેલ છે
The World as I Have Found It
by Mary L. Day ArmsA graduate of the Maryland Institution for the Blind, Mary L. Day published a memoir in 1859 entitled Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl. In this book, a sequel to her first, she recounts how she traveled throughout the country earning a living through the sale of her memoir. She also writes about meeting her future husband, visiting places of interest, and having numerous adventures on the road. The book closes with several essays on blindness and the education of the blind and with a collection of poems by blind authors.
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
by Bill BrysonFrom the Publisher: An unsparing and hilarious account of one man's rediscovery of America and his search for the perfect small town.
Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps
by Ted KooserFrom the book: Ted Kooser describes with exquisite detail and humor the place he calls home in the rolling hills of southeastern Nebraska known as the Bohemian Alps. Nothing is too big or too small for his attention. Memories of his grandmother's cooking are juxtaposed with reflections about the oldfashioned outhouse on his property. In the end, what makes life meaningful for Kooser are the ways in which his neighbors care for one another and how an afternoon walking with an old dog, or baking a pie, or decorating the house for Christmas can summon memories of his Iowa childhood. This writer is a seer in the truest sense of the word, discovering the extraordinary within the ordinary, the deep beneath the shallow, the abiding wisdom in the pithy Bohemian proverbs that are woven into his essays.
Jaywalking with the Irish
by David MonaganFrom the book: For David Monagan, born in Connecticut to a staunch Irish-American family, a lifelong interest in Ireland was perhaps inescapable. David studied literature at Dublin's Trinity College in 1973 and '74, and he became captivated by the country. After enjoying many visits in the intervening years, in 2000 David and his family relocated from the U.S. to Cork, Republic of Ireland. David has written for numerous publications, including the Irish Times, Sunday Independent, and Irish Examiner, and in his wide travels has developed a keen eye for things baffling and marvelous, such as he finds everywhere around him in modern-day Ireland.
Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft
by Thor HeyerdahlThis book recounts a groups' travels across the Pacific ocean on a raft
Ancestor Stones
by Aminatta FornaAminatta Forna's The Devil That Danced on the Water was a rapturously acclaimed, moving, and gorgeously written memoir that garnered international attention. Now she has seamlessly turned her hand to fiction, and delivers a novel that is lush and beautiful, a touching and intimate portrait of the lives of a family of independent, spirited African women over the last century of dramatic cultural change. A young woman who has lived in England for many years, Abie has followed the arc of a letter back to West Africa, to the coffee groves of Kholifa Estates, the plantation formerly owned by her grandfather. It is a place she remembers from childhood and that now belongs to her if she wants it. Standing among the ruined groves she strains to hear the sound of the past, but the layers of years in between then and now are too many. So begins her gathering of the family's history through the tales of her aunts. This is the story of four lives. Asana, Mariama, Hawa, and Serah Kholifa were born to the different wives of a wealthy plantation owner in an Africa where change was just beginning to arrive. Asana, a lost twin and the head-wife's daughter. Hawa, a motherless child and manipulator of her own misfortune. Mariama, who sees what lies beyond this world. And Serah, follower of a Western-made dream. Stretching across generations and set against the backdrop of a country's descent into free fall, Ancestor Stones is a stunning novel about understanding the past and how stories ancient and new shape who we become, a book that offers a different way of seeing the world we share. It is the story of a nation, a family, and four women's attempts to quietly alter the course of their own