Author : Wilfred Thesiger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1230042689
Arabian Sands
Wilfred Thesiger
Arabian Sands
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Book Of Sands
Karim Alrawi
Author : Karim Alrawi
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443434478
Book Of Sands by Karim Alrawi Pdf
A powerful, lyrical novel of the endurance of love, set amid the upheaval of the Arab Spring and the brutal repression of a totalitarian regime Tarek, a young father, watches as the city he lives in is mired in protests, hemmed in by barricades and strangely inundated by great flocks of birds. Facing the threat of police arrest, he flees with his nine-year-old daughter, Neda. He is forced to leave behind his pregnant wife, Mona, under the watchful eye of Omar, her deeply troubled and religious brother. Compounding the difficulties of these times, babies refuse to be born and mothers stop giving birth. As Tarek and Nada journey through villages razed by conflict toward a mountain refuge, they meet with travellers from Tarek’s past and his time as a political prisoner. The reunion reveals secrets that Tarek must come to terms with for his own and Neda’s sake. Ultimately, he must decide where this journey will take them and if he will ever be able to return home again. In the tradition of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Orhan Pamuk’s Snow, debut novelist Karim Alrawi deftly weaves an atmospheric, multi-layered story of intimate lives, informed by recent events and heightened by touches of magic realism, set against the wider canvas of historic events.
Wilfred Thesiger in Africa
Alexander Maitland
Author : Alexander Maitland
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007325252
Wilfred Thesiger in Africa by Alexander Maitland Pdf
A unique collection of essays accompany Wilfred Thesiger’s own personal photographs of the Africa he experienced as one of the world’s most celebrated explorers.
Arabian Deserts
H. Stewart Edgell
Author : H. Stewart Edgell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402039706
Arabian Deserts by H. Stewart Edgell Pdf
This is the first comprehensive survey of all the deserts of Arabia, based largely on the author’s 50 years of experience there. The text deals with every kind of desert in the region, from vast sand seas to clay pans and stony plains to volcanic flows. Along with dune types unique to the region the author outlines climatic changes, current ecology and human influence on desertification.
Arabian Sands
Wilfred Thesiger
Author : Wilfred Thesiger
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-25
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780141904429
Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger Pdf
Wilfred Thesiger was born in Addis Ababa in 1910 and educated at Eton and Oxford. Though British, he was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life, "the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets, etc." In the spirit of T.E. Lawrence, Thesiger spent five years exploring and wandering the deserts of Arabia. With vivid descriptions and colorful anecdotes he narrates his stories, including two crossings of the Empty Quarter, among peoples who had never seen a European and considered it their duty to kill Christian infidels.
Crossing the Sands
Wilfred Thesiger
Author : Wilfred Thesiger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Arabian Peninsula
ISBN : 1860630286
Crossing the Sands by Wilfred Thesiger Pdf
Wifred Thesiger describes his journeys in the Empty Quarter and the Arabian Peninula during the late forties. At that time few Europeans travelled in those areas and occasionally their presence was not welcome. From these journeys he emerged with a great respect for the Bedu who were his travelling companions. His writing style is masterly as he describes his journeys in a plain language which is at the same time eloquent. He shows a great understanding of and a fondness for the Bedu people and their now vanished way of life. Theiseger is also a photographer of exceptional ability and this volume contains a large number of the photographs he took on his expeditions. These and the text create a stunning picture of the land and its peoples. The author is considered the last of the great explorers and this book is an exquisite record charting his memorable adventures with travelling companions bin Kabina and bin Ghabaisha across the Arabian Empty Quarter. He was a skilled photographer and was unique among travel writers of the past in having had the opportunity to take photographs that complement his formidable writing.
Green Sands
Martha Kirk
Author : Martha Kirk
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0896723372
Green Sands by Martha Kirk Pdf
Green Sands is Kirk's chronicle of her life in the desert, told with exceptional candor and detail. Local Bedouins, foreign farm workers and their families, Saudi royalty, assorted Westerners, and fellow Americans share their desert world with Kirk. Her sincere curiosity, empathy, and warmth toward these new friends make her story entertaining as well as enlightening. There is a freshness to Kirk's perspective that puts the reader squarely in her shoes as she struggles to assimilate a culture so alien to her own and to embrace an adventure that few have the chance to experience. Martha Kirk shows her pioneering Texas spirit in the pages of Green Sands as she gamely kills camel spiders in the house, bravely risks imprisonment while driving the farm's pickup truck, and lovingly shares meals with Bedouin women and their children.
Arabian Sands
Wilfred Thesiger
Author : Wilfred Thesiger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Arabian Peninsula
ISBN : UOM:39015002354614
Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger Pdf
Story of five years of travel with the nomad Arabs in the unknown deserts of Southern Arabia.
The Marsh Arabs
Wilfred Thesiger
Author : Wilfred Thesiger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Euphrates River Valley
ISBN : OCLC:856240623
The Marsh Arabs by Wilfred Thesiger Pdf
Sand Dance
Bruce Kirkby
Author : Bruce Kirkby
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001-02-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780771095658
Sand Dance by Bruce Kirkby Pdf
For forty days and forty nights during the winter of 1999, three Canadians, Bruce Kirkby, Jamie Clarke, and Leigh Clarke, along with three Omani Bedu, travelled by camel across Arabia’s great southern desert – the legendary Empty Quarter. Journeying from Salala in Oman on the Arabian Sea, they headed north and east for 1,200 kilometres across remote and largely unexplored desert wilderness, where ranges of sand dunes tower to over three hundred metres in height. When they finally reached Abu Dhabi on the Persian Gulf, they were received as heroes. Theirs was the first camel crossing of the Empty Quarter in over fifty years. The expedition had historic roots, since the team sought to retrace for the first time the original 1947 crossing by world-famous explorer and adventurer Sir Wilfred Thesiger. In the years since Sir Wilfred’s journey, Arabia and the Bedu have faced enormous upheaval. The discovery of oil precipitated rapid and irreversible changes to a nomadic society that had existed in relative isolation since the time of Mohammed. Travelling with their three Bedu companions, the team was afforded a rare glimpse of how these changes have affected the last of the Arabian nomads. During the desert crossing the team was determined to travel and live as authentically as possible, on camels, taking Arabic names and wearing traditional clothing, drinking their water from rank goatskins and eating mainly unleavened bread and dried camel meat. The cultural insights they were afforded are constantly fascinating – but so are the cultural clashes, since the party was often followed by Land Cruisers full of well-meaning supporters who threatened to destroy the spirit of the journey. The expedition was also full of adventure and incident – such as a hundred-foot descent down a narrow, snake-infested well, a three-day sandstorm, the sting of a desert scorpion, and the challenge of living with inescapable heat and nagging dehydration. The Empty Quarter Traverse received considerable media coverage, both nationally and internationally. In nineteen countries around the world, 22,000 school children enrolled in the team’s Internet education program, and 4.8 million people visited the expedition Web site. The trek was reported widely and was the subject of a feature story on the CBC National and a front-page colour photo story in the National Post. Now Bruce Kirkby has written a thoughtful and deeply felt account of this challenging expedition – and has illustrated it with twenty-four pages of his stunning colour photographs. Anyone interested in remote areas of the world or stirred by the romance of old-fashioned adventure and daring will find Sand Dance constantly engaging.
The Life of My Choice
Wilfred Thesiger
Author : Wilfred Thesiger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN : 0006372678
The Life of My Choice by Wilfred Thesiger Pdf
Wilfred Thesiger is the last of the great British eccentric explorers, renowned for his travels through some of the most inaccessible places on earth. As a child in Abyssinia he watched the glorious armies of Ras Tafari returning from hand-to-hand battle, their prisoners in chains; at the age of 23 he made his first expedition into the country of the Danakil, a murderous race among whom a man's status in the tribe depended on the number of men he had killed and castrated. His books, Arabian Sands and The Marsh Arabs, tell of his two sojourns in the Empty Quarter and the Marshes of Southern Iraq.
Secret of the Sands
Sara Sheridan
Author : Sara Sheridan
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007352524
Secret of the Sands by Sara Sheridan Pdf
She was a slave. He was her master. Both of them long to be free...
Armies of Sand
Kenneth Michael Pollack
Author : Kenneth Michael Pollack
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780190906962
Armies of Sand by Kenneth Michael Pollack Pdf
Armies of Sand asks, 'why have Arab militaries fought so poorly in the modern era?' It examines the performance of over two-dozen Arab militaries from 1948 to 2017, and compares them to a half-dozen non-Arab militaries, to conclude that politics, economics, and culture all contributed to the past weakness of Arab armies.
Rebel of the Sands
Alwyn Hamilton
Author : Alwyn Hamilton
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780698410428
Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton Pdf
The New York Times bestselling novel by the Goodreads Choice Awards Best Debut Author of 2016, published in 15 countries! Mortals rule the desert nation of Miraji, but mythical beasts still roam the wild and remote areas, and rumor has it that somewhere, djinn still perform their magic. For humans, it’s an unforgiving place, especially if you’re poor, orphaned, or female. Amani Al’Hiza is all three. She’s a gifted gunslinger with perfect aim, but she can’t shoot her way out of Dustwalk, the back-country town where she’s destined to wind up wed or dead. Then she meets Jin, a rakish foreigner, in a shooting contest, and sees him as the perfect escape route. But though she’s spent years dreaming of leaving Dustwalk, she never imagined she’d gallop away on mythical horse—or that it would take a foreign fugitive to show her the heart of the desert she thought she knew. This startlingly original Middle-East-meets-Wild-West fantasy reveals what happens when a dream deferred explodes—in the fires of rebellion, of romantic passion, and the all-consuming inferno of a girl finally embracing her power.
Of Sand or Soil
Nadav Samin
Author : Nadav Samin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691183381
Of Sand or Soil by Nadav Samin Pdf
Why do tribal genealogies matter in modern-day Saudi Arabia? What compels the strivers and climbers of the new Saudi Arabia to want to prove their authentic descent from one or another prestigious Arabian tribe? Of Sand or Soil looks at how genealogy and tribal belonging have informed the lives of past and present inhabitants of Saudi Arabia and how the Saudi government's tacit glorification of tribal origins has shaped the powerful development of the kingdom’s genealogical culture. Nadav Samin presents the first extended biographical exploration of the major twentieth-century Saudi scholar Ḥamad al-Jāsir, whose genealogical studies frame the story about belonging and identity in the modern kingdom. Samin examines the interplay between al-Jāsir’s genealogical project and his many hundreds of petitioners, mostly Saudis of nontribal or lower status origin who sought validation of their tribal roots in his genealogical texts. Investigating the Saudi relationship to this opaque, orally inscribed historical tradition, Samin considers the consequences of modern Saudi genealogical politics and how the most intimate anxieties of nontribal Saudis today are amplified by the governing strategies and kinship ideology of the Saudi state. Challenging the impression that Saudi culture is determined by puritanical religiosity or rentier economic principles, Of Sand or Soil shows how the exploration and establishment of tribal genealogies have become influential phenomena in contemporary Saudi society. Beyond Saudi Arabia, this book casts important new light on the interplay between kinship ideas, oral narrative, and state formation in rapidly changing societies.