The Man of the Desert
Author : Grace Livingston Hill
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,99 MB
Release : 1914
Category : American fiction
ISBN :
Author : Grace Livingston Hill
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,99 MB
Release : 1914
Category : American fiction
ISBN :
Author : John Man
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 13,49 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780300076097
In intelligent, jargon-free prose, the author takes readers on a colorful tour of the Gobi Desert, from its natural wonders to its conflicts with society. Illustrations.
Author : Grace Livingston Hill
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,63 MB
Release : 1914
Category : American fiction
ISBN :
Author : Grace Livingston Hill
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 26,3 MB
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1776672518
Dedicated missionary John Brownleigh has been traveling the desert for years, patiently bringing his gospel to Native American tribes and isolated pioneer communities. But one day, a chance encounter with a beautiful New York heiress changes both of their lives forever.
Author : Barbara Traub
Publisher : Immedium
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 44,92 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 1597020265
Offers a photographic record of the annual event held in the Black Rock Desert in Northern Nevada, from its beginning as a performance art exhibit to its current status as a pop culture destination.
Author : Michael Scott Moore
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 24,33 MB
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 006296867X
Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates—a riveting,thoughtful, and emotionally resonant exploration of foreign policy, religious extremism, and the costs of survival. In January 2012, having covered a Somali pirate trial in Hamburg for Spiegel Online International—and funded by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting—Michael Scott Moore traveled to the Horn of Africa to write about piracy and ways to end it. In a terrible twist of fate, Moore himself was kidnapped and subsequently held captive by Somali pirates. Subjected to conditions that break even the strongest spirits—physical injury, starvation, isolation, terror—Moore’s survival is a testament to his indomitable strength of mind. In September 2014, after 977 days, he walked free when his ransom was put together by the help of several US and German institutions, friends, colleagues, and his strong-willed mother. Yet Moore’s own struggle is only part of the story: The Desert and the Sea falls at the intersection of reportage, memoir, and history. Caught between Muslim pirates, the looming threat of Al-Shabaab, and the rise of ISIS, Moore observes the worlds that surrounded him—the economics and history of piracy; the effects of post-colonialism; the politics of hostage negotiation and ransom; while also conjuring the various faces of Islam—and places his ordeal in the context of the larger political and historical issues. A sort of Catch-22 meets Black Hawk Down, The Desert and the Sea is written with dark humor, candor, and a journalist’s clinical distance and eye for detail. Moore offers an intimate and otherwise inaccessible view of life as we cannot fathom it, brilliantly weaving his own experience as a hostage with the social, economic, religious, and political factors creating it. The Desert and the Sea is wildly compelling and a book that will take its place next to titles like Den of Lions and Even Silence Has an End.
Author : Siegmar-W. Breckle
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 24,1 MB
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642211178
Having been the fourth largest lake on the globe roughly 50 years ago, today the Aral Sea no longer exists. Human activities caused its desiccation and the formation of a huge new desert, the Aralkum, which can be regarded as one of the greatest ecological catastrophes and - at the same time - the largest primary succession experiment of mankind. This volume brings together the results of international and interdisciplinary long-term studies on the new desert ecosystem and is divided into four main sections. The first section provides an overview of the physical characteristics of the area and covers geological, pedological, geomorphological and climatological aspects and their dynamics, especially dust-storm dynamics. The second focuses on the biotic aspects and highlights the spatial and temporal patterns of the flora and fauna. In the third section studies and projects aiming to combat desertification by phytomelioration and to develop strategies for the conservation of biodiversity are presented. The book is rounded off with a section providing a synthesis and conclusions.
Author : Akhter Ahsen
Publisher :
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 23,40 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780913412268
Author : Harold Lamb
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,67 MB
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803226195
Countless authors have swept us into the exotic east, but few based their tales there. In a time when westerners still spoke publicly about "the white man's burden," Harold Lamb was crafting action-packed stories featuring Arabs, Mongols, and Hindus as heroic, sympathetic, and believable characters: men of honor and integrity ready to lay down their lives for their countries and their comrades.
Author : Grace Livingston Hill
Publisher :
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 47,60 MB
Release : 1968
Category :
ISBN :