Download or read book Lizard in My Luggage written by Anna Nicholas and published by Burro Books Limited. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna, a PR consultant to Mayfair's ritziest and most glamorous, had always thought Mallorca was for the disco and beer-swilling fraternity. That was until her sister hired an au pair from a rural part of the island who said it was the most beautiful place on earth. On a visit, Anna impulsively decided to buy a ruined farmhouse.Despite her fear of flying, she kept a foot in both camps and commuted to central London to manage her PR company. But she found herself drawn away from the bustle and stress of life in the fast lane towards a more tranquil existence.Told with piquant humour, A Lizard in my Luggage explores Mallorca's fiestas and traditions, as well as the ups and downs of living in a rural retreat. It is about learning to appreciate the simple things and take risks in pursuit of real happiness. Most importantly, it shows that life can be lived between two places.

Download or read book A Lizard In My Luggage written by Anna Nicholas and published by . This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Goats From a Small Island written by Anna Nicholas and published by Burro Books Limited. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life on the small island of Mallorca is entertaining and fascinating for Anna Nicholas, who moved her family to a rural mountain setting for a more manana existence. But it's never simple.She pursues her dream of opening a cattery, is devastated by the abduction of her beloved toad, and becomes fixated with Myotragus, the extinct goat that roamed Mallorca in ancient times. Meanwhile, trying to cut loose from her PR agency and its clients in London and New York, she finds herself among nutty Russian models and amorous rock climbers.Hilarious, informative and brimming with memorable characters, Goats From A Small Island is a delightful tribute to Mallorca's rich way of life.

Download or read book Lonely Planet Mallorca written by Lonely Planet and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Donkeys on My Doorstep written by Anna Nicholas and published by Burro Books Limited. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna wants to loosen the reins on her London-based PR company to spend more quiet time at home in sunny Mallorca with her family. But things don't work out quite as planned.Amid ant and wasp infestations in the finca, she insists their menagerie of animals, including her new cattery, will only be complete with donkeys. Meanwhile she befriends an elderly Mallorcan poet, whose letters from his sweetheart during the Spanish Civil War waft into her garden, unveiling a poignant story of bravery and sacrifice.In between all this she organises a Mad Hatter's Tea Party and survives a night in a haunted mansion. Brimming with hilarious and loveable characters, Donkeys on my Doorstep is a charming slice of the good life in rural Spain.

Download or read book Lizard Tales written by Bayard H. Brattstrom and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Lizard Tales, People and Events in the Life of a Naturalist” consists of stories that I told in my ecology, evolution, ornithology, herpetology, natural history, and general biology classes or around campfires, and includes many that have never been told to anyone until now. The book is autobiographical and geographic: Chicago, Hollywood, San Diego, UCLA, Cal. Tech., New York, Arizona and also Australia, Mexico, and Central America. The stories are about animals, fieldwork, people, and weird or exciting events. Because I have met and interacted with many people, there are personal stories about Debbie Reynolds, Natalie Wood, John Steinbeck, Margaret Meade, Cellist Gregory Piatagorsky, Charles Richter (Earthquake Scale), U.S. Grant IV, The Emperor of Japan, and artist Charles Russell! Some of the fun stories include: Playing badminton with the world’s champion, Cobras getting loose at UCLA, Nobel Laureates in my class, How I invented the stent, Origin of the first elephant race in human history, Why salamanders helped Custer lose the Battle of Little Big Horn, The girl that peed with rattlesnakes, Sliding off the side of a whale, Drinking beer with the Emperor of Japan, Can lizards predict earthquakes, Three gringos and a dead horse (Costa Rica), and Attempted murder using a rattlesnake.

Download or read book Lost Luggage written by Wendall Thomas and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macavity Award 2018 nominee, Best First Novel Left Award 2018 nominee, Best Debut Mystery Novel "Thomas makes a rollicking debut with this comic mystery featuring an unconventional protagonist who proves to have the skills of MacGyver. With its sexy overtones, this fun, character-driven novel will appeal to Janet Evanovich fans." —Library Journal STARRED review Cyd Redondo, a young, third-generation Brooklyn travel agent who specializes in senior citizens, has never ventured farther than New Jersey. Yet even Jersey proves risky when her Travel Agents' Convention fling, Roger Claymore, leaves her weak in the knees-and everywhere else-then sneaks out of her Atlantic City hotel room at three a.m. Back in Brooklyn, when she reads about smugglers stopped at JFK with skinks in their socks or monkeys down their pants, she never imagines she will join their ranks. But days after the pet store owner next door to Redondo Travel is poisoned, Cyd wins a free safari. Her boss, Uncle Ray, wants to cash it in for computers, but Cyd is determined to go. When Roger turns up at the Redondo clan's door, Cyd invites him along as her "plus one." And just like that she is thrown heels-first into the bizarre and sinister world of international animal smuggling. She and Roger arrive in Africa, luggage lost, to find two of Cyd's elderly clients in a local jail. She manages to barter them out, only to discover smugglers have hidden five hundred thousand dollars' worth of endangered parrots, snakes, frogs, and a lone Madagascan chameleon in the clients' outbound luggage. When Roger steals the bags—is the U.S. Embassy in on the contraband ring?—Cyd and the chameleon helicopter into the jungle to go after Roger on their own. Wondering if "plus one" Roger is actually a minus, Cyd dodges Interpol, faces off with a cobra, steals a diplomatic bag, hijacks a FedEx truck, crashes an eco-safari, winds up in a leopard trap, and is forced to smuggle snakes in her bra. It's a scramble to find the smugglers, save her clients, and solve Mrs. Barsky's murder before finding herself at the top of the endangered species list.

Download or read book The Year of Eating Dangerously written by Tom Parker Bowles and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fugu. Dog. Cobra. Bees. Spleen. A 600,000 SCU chili pepper. All considered foods by millions of people around the world. And all objects of great fascination to Tom Parker Bowles, a food journalist who grew up eating his mother's considerably safer roast chicken, shepherd's pie and mushy peas. Intrigued by the food phobias of two friends, Parker Bowles became inspired to examine the cultural divides that make some foods verboten or "dangerous" in the culture he grew up with while being seen as lip-smacking delicacies in others. So began a year-long odyssey through Asia, Europe and America in search of the world's most thrilling, terrifying and odd foods. Parker Bowles is always witty and sometimes downright hilarious in recounting his quest for envelope-pushing meals, ranging from the potentially lethal to the outright disgusting to the merely gluttonous—and he proves in this book that an open mouth and an open mind are the only passports a man needs to truly discover the world.

Download or read book Southern Fried Life written by David Luck and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dylan Jacobs, Debbie and John John Rachel, Stuart Dauzart, and Phoebe Werner-Sury have been friends for a long time. The five of them share a special bond, and despite the ups and downs of life, they've stayed in touch. Now--on the eve of their thirty-second high school class reunion--the middle-aged friends relive their youth for one long weekend. For three fun-filled days, they leave behind worries about unplanned pregnancies, divorce, bankruptcy, substance abuse, bizarre baptisms, unfair kiddy glamour pageants, poorly fried catfish, and one freak accident caused by a fake pig. They recall the joy of the past, come to grips with the present, and celebrate the future. Set in central Louisiana, this humorous story reminds us that we should always take the time to stop and smell the bacon. "It's midlife crisis fried over easy and seasoned to hilarious perfection. This hysterical story proves that when life throws you a side of nasty pork--make jerky!" --Phaedra Parks, attorney, TV Personality, and author of Secrets of the Southern Belle "Southern Fried Life is a gumbo full of tragedies, love, laughter, bad behavior, honest mistakes, and friendships that will last forever." --Norman Korpi, artist, filmmaker, star of MTV's The Real World, and inventor of the Aero-Tray

Download or read book Awake to Victory written by Barbara Michel and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shanna, terrorized by demons, abandons her missionary calling. Her romance with Charles is threatened. To be victorious, she must learn to take authority over the principalities and powers of darkness.

Download or read book Bull on the Beach written by Anna Nicholas and published by Burro Books Limited. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having settled in a Mallorcan mountain idyll, Anna Nicholas, her husband the Scotsman and their son Ollie want to become as self-sufficient as possible. Anna teams up with organic farmers and smallholders to learn how to tend sheep, make cheese and honey and grind flour while the Scotsman creates havoc with his friend Pep in an attempt at winemaking, and tries to fathom what's troubling the wriggly inhabitants of his beloved wormery.However, Anna can't quite shake off her old clients from the PR world, and is persuaded by Greedy George to create a media storm for his new Spanish leather store. The story of how a giant bull ends up on a Barcelona beach is enough to make her delighted to return to Mallorca, where talking to a toad and feeding porridge to her hens seems normal by comparison.

Download or read book The Zoo Memoirs written by Gerald Durrell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British naturalist and bestselling author of the Corfu Trilogy—the inspiration for the Masterpiece production The Durrells in Corfu—founds a zoo. In this trio of delightful memoirs, British wildlife preservation pioneer and national bestselling author Gerald Durrell recounts the ups and downs he faces in transforming his lifelong dream of creating a new kind of zoo into a reality. A Zoo in My Luggage: In 1957, Durrell and his wife travel to the British Cameroons in West Africa to begin assembling his menagerie. The greater challenge proves to be in safely transporting their exotic animals back to Britain and finding a home for them. “Animals come close to being Durrell’s best friends. . . . He writes about them with style, verve, and humor.” —Time The Whispering Land: On an eight-month journey in South America to expand his menagerie, Durrell and his wife travel across windswept Patagonian shores and through tropical forests in the Argentine, encountering fur seals, ocelots, penguins, parrots, pumas, and more. “An amusing writer who transforms this Argentine backcountry into a particularly inviting place.” —San Francisco Chronicle Menagerie Manor: In 1959, on the grounds of an old manor house on the Channel Island of Jersey, Durrell finally opens the Jersey Zoo—now known as the Durrell Wildlife Park. Along with the satisfaction of providing a safe habitat for rare and endangered species come the trials of operating a fledgling zoo, including overdrawn bank accounts and escaped animals. “No one can be funnier than Mr. Durrell in relating his own adventures or the antics of the claw and paw set.” —The Christian Science Monitor

Download or read book Chorus of Cockerels written by Anna Nicholas and published by Burro Books Limited. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in rural Mallorca continues to hold its magic for Anna and her family.When not juggling work deadlines, chatting with Johnny the toad or managing her ever-growing menagerie, Anna sets off to explore the lesser-known areas of the island.On her cultural and historic voyage of discovery she visits fig, olive and snail farms, a textile mill and a sobrasada sausage factory, and learns of Mallorca's rich literary legacy. While marathon training in the picturesque Tramuntana mountains, she is spooked when delving into the myths and Moorish legends that still seem to haunt the surrounding hills. As she examines the ancient remains of ice houses and huts of charcoal burners, she hears tales of the terrifying brigands that ruled the area in the seventeenth century. And she even finds time to hike the Camino de Santiago along the way...

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Download or read book Another Long Hot Soak written by Chris Gidney and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the daily grind is getting you down, nothing beats a nice, warm bath with a good book. The stories in this collection do for the soul what a hot soak does for the body: cleanse, relax and refresh. Another Long Hot Soak -- Book Two offers more than fifty true-life stories to comfort and inspire. In this poignant, heartwarming collection, an unwanted child finds a mother and a home. A young woman renews her love for her dying brother. A sailor adrift at sea chooses faith over fear. These are the accounts of real people from all walks of life who have faced every kind of circumstance -- the routine, the remarkable, the uncanny, the tragic and even the humorous. Some, in the face of betrayal, have shown astonishing forgiveness and love. Others have stared death in the face and emerged with a deeper sense of purpose. Many have encountered a power greater than themselves that guided their decisions, empowered their actions and engineered outcomes beyond their own ability. Written in the style of its popular predecessor, A Long Hot Soak, this book is a spiritual tonic to bring encouragement and strength in the ups and downs of life. 'Life is often more akin to a Blackpool roller coaster than the calm, serene and pleasant life that we would all wish for ... But whether you are on the downward slide or on the climb to the top, I am sure these stories will provide inspiration, encouragement and a source of hope that will enable you to find the handle to steady you through the dips and bumps of your own journey through life's great adventure.' -- Wendy Craig