Download or read book The Reluctant Tourist written by Ronald Barnett and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-05-31 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Daddy, tell us a story." That is what my sister and I would tell our father as he tucked us into bed each night. The stories were always about London, Siberia, China or Japan. We realized, as we grew older that these were true stories of a great adventure he had experienced. This book is a historical novel based on the true story of a young deserter from the British Army during the little known Allied Intervention into Russia and Siberia after the Russian Revolution, during 1918 and 1919.
Download or read book The Accidental Tourist written by Anne Tyler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning author—an irresistible novel exploring the slippery alchemy of attracting opposites, and the struggle to rebuild one’s life after unspeakable tragedy Travel writer Macon Leary hates travel, adventure, surprises, and anything outside of his routine. Immobilized by grief, Macon is becoming increasingly prickly and alone, anchored by his solitude and an unwillingness to compromise his creature comforts. Then he meets Muriel, an eccentric dog trainer too optimistic to let Macon disappear into himself. Despite Macon’s best efforts to remain insulated, Muriel up-ends his solitary, systemized life, catapulting him into the center of a messy, beautiful love story he never imagined. A fresh and timeless tale of unexpected bliss, The Accidental Tourist showcases Tyler’s talents for making characters—and their relationships—feel both real and magical. “Incandescent, heartbreaking, exhilarating…One cannot reasonably expect fiction to be much better than this.” —The Washington Post
Download or read book The Reluctant Fundamentalist written by Mohsin Hamid and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2009-06-05 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the award-winning Moth Smoke comes a perspective on love, prejudice, and the war on terror that has never been seen in North American literature. At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with a suspicious, and possibly armed, American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful meeting. . . Changez is living an immigrant’s dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by Underwood Samson, an elite firm that specializes in the “valuation” of companies ripe for acquisition. He thrives on the energy of New York and the intensity of his work, and his infatuation with regal Erica promises entrée into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own family back in Lahore. For a time, it seems as though nothing will stand in the way of Changez’s meteoric rise to personal and professional success. But in the wake of September 11, he finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned, and his budding relationship with Erica eclipsed by the reawakened ghosts of her past. And Changez’s own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and perhaps even love. Elegant and compelling, Mohsin Hamid’s second novel is a devastating exploration of our divided and yet ultimately indivisible world. “Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard: I am a lover of America. I noticed that you were looking for something; more than looking, in fact you seemed to be on a mission, and since I am both a native of this city and a speaker of your language, I thought I might offer you my services as a bridge.” —from The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Download or read book Travel Tips from a Reluctant Traveler written by Jeannette Clift George and published by Thomas Nelson Publishers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Reluctant Traveller written by Jeff Rozelaar and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-06-09 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It may be seen as perverse that someone who believes himself to be one of the world's worse travellers should feel compelled to write a book on travel. The task has been undertaken in the knowledge that there are likely to be countless others who share my reluctance to see "The Lonely Planet." For them, and the bolder spirits with the opposite attitude, entertainment may be derived from the candid confessions of a neurotic who is aware that the world will laugh at one who considers a walk to the local crossroads, a day out. Friends, with deliberate irony and a superficial knowledge of the Classics, refer to me as "Homer," knowing of this aversion to Odysseys. This amusing tale follows this "Reluctant Traveller" on a recent West Coast, Canadian and U.S. road trip.
Download or read book The Accidental Tourist written by Anne Tyler and published by Im-Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Macon Leary--a travel writer who hates both travel and strangeness. Grounded by loneliness, comfort, and a somewhat odd domestic life, Macon is about to embark on a surprising new adventure, arriving in the form of a fuzzy-haired dog obedience trainer who promises to turn his life around. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Download or read book The Reluctant Traveller written by Bill Lumley and published by . This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After enraging England (writing as Bill Murphy) in Home Truths, Bill Lumley is back in the first of the 'Reluctant Traveller' series. Forced to make good on a drunken promise to travel to Ethiopia to document a journey to the pinnacle of the lost mountain of Wehni, Lumley sets about annoying his mate Gar, his fellow travellers, and a huge number of Ethiopians. As he pursues his quest to avoid all work, any strenuous activity and paying for booze, he plots escape routes back his favourite Bethnal Green watering hole, only to be thwarted at every turn.
Download or read book The Last Tourist written by Olen Steinhauer and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Olen Steinhauer brings back Milo Weaver in The Last Tourist. In Olen Steinhauer’s bestseller An American Spy, reluctant CIA agent Milo Weaver thought he had finally put “Tourists”—CIA-trained assassins—to bed. A decade later, Milo is hiding out in Western Sahara when a young CIA analyst arrives to question him about a series of suspicious deaths and terrorist chatter linked to him. Their conversation is soon interrupted by a new breed of Tourists intent on killing them both, forcing them to run. As he tells his story, Milo is joined by colleagues and enemies from his long history in the world of intelligence, and the young analyst wonders what to believe. He wonders, too, if he’ll survive this encounter. After three standalone novels, Olen Steinhauer returns to the series that made him a New York Times bestseller.
Download or read book Backpacked written by Catherine Ryan Howard and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine Howard's wry tale of what happened when she hit the backpacker trail.
Download or read book The Reluctant Traveller written by Lori Guretzki and published by . This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reluctant Traveler is a true travel story about the trials and tribulations of an average Canadian couple vacationing in Peru, South America. It is written in a day by day diary format. The reader who has traveled to Peru will no doubt relive their journey however in a much different way or possibly not and to the arm chair reader, they will live each day as the author did, trying to enjoy a holiday in a country with few modern conveniences, unbearable heat and huge insects. The Reluctant Traveler is sure to amuse and entertain its readers.
Download or read book Tourism and Sustainability written by Martin Mowforth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-08 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourism and Sustainability explores and challenges the notions of development, sustainability, globalisation and power, and their relationship to contemporary tourism in the third world.
Download or read book How to Travel Practically Anywhere written by Susan Stellin and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006-04-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential guide for today’s traveler features timesaving tips for planning, booking, and troubleshoot your trip—on and off the Web. If you’ve ever tried to find a sale fare you saw advertised for a flight, only to turn up much higher prices, or discovered that the hotel you booked wasn’t exactly “steps away from the ocean,” you know that the do-it-yourself era of travel can mean something else entirely: you’re on your own. Now travel reporter and New York Times contributor Susan Stellin helps readers navigate the sometimes overwhelming logistics of travel, from researching trip plans to avoiding pitfalls on the road. This comprehensive guidebook presents practical advice on the most useful Web sites, strategies for finding the best deals, and resources to help you decide where and when to go. It also provides crucial tips to ensure your trip doesn’t disappoint, including: What to research before booking a hotel How to avoid hidden fees and expensive penalties What your credit card covers when you rent a car Whom to call if you need a doctor far from home And much more!
Download or read book The Reluctant Warrior written by Edmund R. Ciriello and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2004-05-06 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shocking true story of Edmund Ciriello, an intelligence operative, who had a license to kill and the compassion to save lives. A compelling memoir about covert live in the shadows as only an insider can tell it. From his first mission behind enemy lines during the Korean War, to his rescue attempt of two kidnapped girls held in Saudi Arabia during Desert Storm, Cirello takes us inside his mysterious world. His many years in Chicago and Hollywood are an exciting and hilarious journey through the real world of private investigations. An explosive book relevant to the crises facing the world and the real reasons behind them.
Download or read book Once Upon a Time Traveler written by Joshua Light and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three brilliant scientists harness the power to fold time and visit the past and future like a common tourist. One scientist formulates a tour of Biblical events because he believes in God, but the tour is reluctantly and accidentally traveled by a scientist who does not. What will unbelieving eyes see, and how will they interpret the most significant supernatural events of all time? The tour embraces world history from the beginning of creation and into the future, where Biblical prophecy tells us that dangerous people will control the whole world, countless millions of people will evaporate, and society will plunge into darkness. What if a time traveler visited just two years into the future after the Biblical Prophetic clock has already started ticking? And then catapulted into the past, where Earth is like another planet entirely? What kind of world, and what kind of tribulation would he find? And as an unbeliever, how would he respond to it? Light deals with the issues of Biblical prophecy, recent young-earth creation, a literal and startling twist on how things were, and how things will be. Set aside the notions of being left behind, and embrace the idea of being brought along, in the circuits of Earth’s end-to-end timeline. Enter a future we’d rather forget, and a history that nobody remembers.
Download or read book Recreational Tourism written by Chris Ryan and published by Channel View Publications. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A decade after the first edition of this book established itself as one of the major books that covered the nature of the demand for tourism, and the implications of that demand, this second edition represents a significant updating of material that reflects contemporary thinking."
Download or read book The Reluctant Healer written by Andrew D. Himmel and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2018 Winner of 2019 International Book Awards (General Fiction and Inspirational Fiction Categories) Winner, 2019 New York City Big Book Award (General Fiction) Between Doubt and Belief The Reluctant Healer tells the story of a young attorney who is torn between mounting evidence that he has the spiritual ability to heal others and his life-long skepticism of alternative views. Will Alexander is cautious and conventional. But when he meets Erica, a beautiful, intense energy healer, he becomes troubled not only by her unorthodox endeavors but also by the limitations of his own existence. Amidst this turmoil, Will is startled to discover that he may possess metaphysical gifts of healing that confront the narrow doctrines of his regulated life. The Reluctant Healer paints a portrait of a reasonable man who traces a path between skepticism and belief. Flawed, funny, and agnostic, Will distrusts much of the alternative world, even as he struggles internally with phenomena that challenge both his sense of self and his orderly perspective. Will’s love for Erica, the exposure to her world, and his newfound powers place his life in a state of uncertainty, teetering between disruption and liberation.
Download or read book French Travel Writing in the Ottoman Empire written by Michele Longino and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the history of the French experience of the Ottoman world and Turkey, this comparative study visits the accounts of early modern travelers for the insights they bring to the field of travel writing. The journals of contemporaries Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Jean Thévenot, Laurent D’Arvieux, Guillaume-Joseph Grelot, Jean Chardin, and Antoine Galland reveal a rich corpus of political, social, and cultural elements relating to the Ottoman Empire at the time, enabling an appreciation of the diverse shapes that travel narratives can take at a distinct historical juncture. Longino examines how these writers construct themselves as authors, characters, and individuals in keeping with the central human project of individuation in the early modern era, also marking the differences that define each of these travelers – the shopper, the envoy, the voyeur, the arriviste, the ethnographer, the merchant. She shows how these narratives complicate and alter political and cultural paradigms in the fields of Mediterranean studies, 17th-century French studies, and cultural studies, arguing for their importance in the canon of early modern narrative forms, and specifically travel writing. The first study to examine these travel journals and writers together, this book will be of interest to a range of scholars covering travel writing, French literature, and history.
