Author : Elma Napier
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,89 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Dominica
ISBN : 9780953222445
Scottish aristocrat Elma Napier turned her back on London high society in 1932, to move to Dominica, where she became the first woman to sit in a West Indian parliament. This is her memoir of life there.
Author : Geoff Dyer
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 16,72 MB
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1101870869
From “one of our most original writers” (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine) comes an expansive and exacting book—firmly grounded but elegant, often hilarious, and always inquisitive—about travel, unexpected awareness, and the questions we ask when we step outside ourselves. Geoff Dyer’s restless search—for what? is unclear, even to him—continues in this series of fascinating adventures and pilgrimages: with a tour guide who may not be a tour guide in the Forbidden City in Beijing; with friends in New Mexico, where D. H. Lawrence famously claimed to have had his “greatest experience from the outside world”; with a hitchhiker picked up on the way from White Sands; with Don Cherry (or a photo of him, at any rate) at the Watts Towers in Los Angeles. Weaving stories about places to which he has recently traveled with images and memories that have persisted since childhood, Dyer tries “to work out what a certain place—a certain way of marking the landscape—means; what it’s trying to tell us; what we go to it for.” With 4 pages of full-color illustrations.
Author : Larry G. Marshall
Publisher :
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 50,39 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biosphere reserves
ISBN : 9780615280646
Author : Ellen Klages
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 10,70 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780670062355
Living with the Gordons in their quite desert town in New Mexico in 1946, Dewey is learning a lot from her science-obsessed adoptive family, but just as she begins to settle in and get comfortable, Dewey's long-lost mother reemerges to take her away from the only stability she has ever really known in her young life. 20,000 first printing.
Author : Brandon Sanderson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,59 MB
Release : 2017
Category : COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
ISBN : 9781524104863
On the planet of Taldain, the legendary Sand Masters harness arcane powers to manipulate sand in spectacular ways. But when they are slaughtered in a sinister conspiracy, the weakest of their number, Kenton, believes himself to be the only survivor. With enemies closing in on all sides, Kenton forges an unlikely partnership with Khriss--a mysterious Darksider who hides secrets of her own.
Author : Brandon Sanderson
Publisher : Dynamite Entertainment
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 38,6 MB
Release : 2018-02-21
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1524103454
Following the loss of most of his colleagues in a violent ambush, Kenton has become Lord Mastrell of the few remaining Sand Masters, magicians who can manipulate sand to do their bidding. With the ruling council poised against him, the hot-headed Kenton must become a diplomat to have any hope of preventing the eradication of his people forever. However, there’s another complication: assassins are coming for him from all directions, and Kenton’s only true ally is Khriss, a visitor from the other side of the planet who has an agenda of her own to pursue. White Sand Volume 2 continues the New York Times bestselling series of graphic novels, bringing a crucial chapter of Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere to life exclusively in a visual format.
Author : Jeanetta Calhoun Mish
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 50,74 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0826358306
Varjabedian's photographs reveal snow-white dunes of gypsum, striking landforms, storms and stillness, panoramic vistas and breathtaking sunsets, intricate wind-blown patterns in the sand, ancient animal tracks, exquisite desert plants, and also the people who come to experience this place that is at once spectacular yet subtle.
Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Dutton Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 10,90 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Thirteen new stories by the celebrated writer, including two which he considers his greatest achievements to date, artfully blend elements from many literary geares.
Author : Gregory P. Kennedy
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 28,2 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780764332517
In 1945, the United States Army established a testing center for rockets and guided missiles in south-central New Mexico. Named White Sands Proving Ground, this center was the locale for many of Americas first steps towards space. Rockets and Missiles of White Sands Proving Ground chronicles major activities at the base from 1945-1958. During this period, the Army, Navy, and Air Force all tested missiles at the desert installation. This book details the development and testing for such missiles as Hermes, Corporal, Nike Ajax, Sergeant, Honest John, and Viking. These missiles formed the backbone of much of Americas arsenal during the Cold War and represented major technological advancements. In 1958, the White Sands Proving Ground became the White Sands Missile Range, as it is known today.
Author : Ruben David Gonsales Galʹego
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 12,82 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780151012275
Born with cerebral palsy in Moscow, Ruben Gallego was hidden away in Soviet state institutions by his maternal grandfather, the secretary general of the Spanish Communist Party in the 1960s. His was a boyhood spent in orphanages, hospitals, and old-age homes, a life of emotional deprivation and loss of human dignity. Gallego's story is one of neglect and mistreatment but also of shared small pleasures, of courage, of the power of the human will, and of a child's growing fascination with books and the worlds he finds in them.
