East Along the Equator
Title | East Along the Equator PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Winternitz |
Publisher | Atlantic Monthly Press |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 9780871131621 |
In this brilliant mix of political journalism and travel writing, Helen Winternitz and fellow journalist Timothy Phelps witness what few Westerners have: life in the ecologically rich but financially impoverished American-backed dictatorship of Zaire, the former Belgian Congo.
East Along the Equator
Title | East Along the Equator PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Winternitz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Congo (Democratic Republic) |
ISBN | 9780340497258 |
Latitude Zero
Title | Latitude Zero PDF eBook |
Author | Gianni Guadalupi |
Publisher | Constable |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Voyages and travels |
ISBN | 9781841196091 |
The Equator has no tangible existence beyond maps, but yet it lives, a hugely significant symbol in the minds and hearts of navigators, travellers, poets, madmen and dreamers of all eras. It is the world's girdle, its 24,000 miles or 38,640 kilometres passing through the Ecuadorian Andes and the mist-shrouded Ruwenzori Mountains, running along the courses of both the Amazon and the Congo rivers, and cutting through Africa's vast Lake Victoria, and the coral atolls and volcanic hulk of Krakatoa, in the Indian Ocean. The eminent Italian historian Gianni Guadalupi, and writer Antony Shugaar, have put together this inspirational collection of amazing equatorial adventures. Many have responded to the challenge of the Line, setting out to discover the mysterious source of the Nile, the perils of the Doldrums ('the living death in life' Coleridge called it') or the powerful force of El Niño, the quest for a lost Eden and for El Dorado. Others have sought a new life, like Elisa the 'nude Baroness' of the Galapagos, or Robert Louis Stevenson, for whom the fearsome King Tembinok built at Latitude Zero in the Gilbert Islands, an enclave named Equator City. So many grand expeditions and projects, so many great explorers and eccentrics, make this anthology a joyous voyage of discovery.
The Indian Equator
Title | The Indian Equator PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Strathcarron |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2013-07-24 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0486315800 |
In 1895 Mark Twain conducted a year-long around-the-world lecture tour that formed the basis for Following the Equator. A modern-day journalist recounts Twain's passage through India and offers his own intriguing observations of the same sites a century later.
East of the Equator
Title | East of the Equator PDF eBook |
Author | Von Williamson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Equator
Title | Equator PDF eBook |
Author | Thurston Clarke |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2014-09-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1497676479 |
Widely considered a jewel of contemporary travel literature, Equator is Thurston Clarke’s magnificent, witty account of his solo journey along the earth’s torrid midsection—a grueling twenty-five-thousand-mile odyssey that spanned three years and as many continents. His was a perilous trek across an almost surreal landscape—where a first-class hotel appeared smack in the middle of a leper colony and a one-time Pacific island paradise stood as a hideous, bomb-blasted testament to nuclear folly. Along the way Clarke encountered the world’s heaviest rat, the earth’s highest volcano, and the king of a Micronesian island, wearing flip-flops and a novelty T-shirt. Throughout, Clarke’s unflagging sense of humor and wonder make Equator a classic of its kind.
East of the Equator
Title | East of the Equator PDF eBook |
Author | Barry Newman (Journalist) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Asia |
ISBN | 9789627022046 |