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Author : Charles Bowden
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1988-04-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0816510814
Contains essays that depict and decry the rapid growth and disappearing natural landscapes of the Sunbelt
Author : Celia Jeffries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1578690447
In 1910, sixteen-year-old Alice George and her family leave England for a new life in Morocco. A headstrong young woman, Alice is fascinated by the exotic life of Marrakesh until two years later she is abducted into the Sahara after a car accident. She is rescued by Abu, chief of his Tuareg tribe, and begins a life of freedom that she never could have imagined in corseted England.In 1917, after the tribe takes her son away from her, Alice escapes with her slave/companion. He betrays her, she becomes captive in a harem and murders a man, then escapes. She is 'found' by the Sisters of Blessed Mercy and returned home to a world completely alien to the one she had left seven years before, a world she believes cannot include her life in the Sahara. Decades later she receives a telegram announcing that Abu has died in the desert. "Who is Abu?" her husband asks. "My lover," she answers. Thus begins a seven-day journey of revelation as Alice struggles to come to terms with her life in the desert and with the fact that her greatest secret-the son she left behind-is coming at the end of the week.The story opens with the telegram, then moves back in time to recount the family's departure from England and arrival in Morocco, then forward to the opening storyline. Alice goes to stay with her sister and they finally tell each other about their lives before and after the abduction. Meanwhile her husband Martin uses his contacts as a government consultant to uncover the truth about Alice, Abu, and their son.At the end of the week Martin and Alice reunite in London and await her son, who arrives with her granddaughter.
Author : J. M. G. Le Clézio
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781567924442
After being driven from their land by French colonial soldiers in 1909, Nour and his people, "the blue men" must search for a haven out of the desert that will shelter them. Interspersed with the story of Nour is the contemporary story of Lalla, a descendent of the blue men, who lives in Morocco and tries to stay true to the blood of her ancestors while experiencing life as a modern immigrant.
Author : Steven J. Phillips,Patricia Wentworth Comus
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0520219805
"A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert provides the most complete collection of Sonoran Desert natural history information ever compiled and is a perfect introduction to this biologically rich desert of North America."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Catrin Gersdorf
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401206570
This study explores the ways in which the desert, as topographical space and cultural presence, shaped and reshaped concepts and images of America. Once a territory outside the geopolitical and cultural borders of the United States, the deserts of the West and Southwest have since emerged as canonical American landscapes. Drawing on the critical concepts of American studies and on questions and problems raised in recent debates on ecocriticism, The Poetics and Politics of the Desert investigates the spatial rhetoric of America as it developed in view of arid landscapes since the mid-nineteenth century. Gersdorf argues that the integration of the desert into America catered to the entire spectrum of ideological and political responses to the history and culture of the US, maintaining that the Americanization of this landscape was and continues to be staged within the idiomatic parameters and in reaction to the discursive authority of four spatial metaphors: garden, wilderness, Orient, and heterotopia.
Author : Marlene Shigekawa,Kikuchi Isao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Grandfathers
ISBN : 1879965046
While living in a relocation camp during the World War II, a young Japanese American boy receives a message of hope from his grandfather.
Author : Patrick D. Murphy,Terry Gifford,Katsunori Yamazato
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1579580106
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Steven John Phillips,Patricia Wentworth Comus,Mark Alan Dimmitt,Linda M. Brewer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520287471
"The landscape of the Sonoran Desert Region varies dramatically from parched desert lowlands to semiarid tropical forests and frigid subalpine meadows... "A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert" takes readers deep into its vast expanse, looking closely at the relationships of plants and animals with the land and people, through time and across landscapes"--
Author : Aidan Tynan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474443371
Aidan explores the ways in which Nietzsche's warning that 'the desert grows' has been taken up by Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze in their critiques of modernity, and the desert in literature ranging from T.S Eliot to Don DeLillo; from imperial travel writing to postmodernism; and from the Old Testament to salvagepunk.
Author : George Edward Woodberry
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:4066339533639
"North Africa and the desert : Scenes and moods" by George Edward Woodberry. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Avid Leonardo Sari,Irwandi Irwandi,Irfan Nurdiansyah,Robbi Rahim
Publisher : European Alliance for Innovation
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781631904066
The International Conference on Economic, Management, Business and Accounting (ICEMBA) is a scientific forum for scholars to disseminate their research and share ideas. This conference took place at STIE Pembangunan Tanjungpinang, Indonesia, on 14 December, 2022. The ICEMBA 2022 Theme is Glocalization, Startup & Bubblenomic: Challenges, Opportunities for the Indonesian Economy. Consist of sub themes, SME Recovery, HRM, Green HRM, Green Marketing, Digital Business, E-Commerce, Brand Management, Marketing Management, Financial Management, Operational Management, Business Ethic, Management Strategy, Management of Information System, Circular Economic, Behavioral Accounting, Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Corporate Governance, Auditing and Assurance, Financial Technology, Public Sector Accounting, SME Accounting, Tax Accounting, Disclosure, Accounting Information SLS, Green Accounting, Accountability. The ICEMBA ’s scope of the conference are ranged from but not limited to Economics, Management, Business; and Accounting. The conference invites delegates from across Indonesian and South East Asian region and beyond, and is usually attended by more than 100 participants from university academics, researchers, practitioners, teachers, students of postgraduate program and professionals across a wide range of industries.
Author : Bill Broyles,Bruce J. Dinges
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781477319925
The author of more than twenty books and a revered contributor to numerous national publications, Charles Bowden (1945–2014) used his keen storyteller’s eye to reveal both the dark underbelly and the glorious determination of humanity, particularly in the borderlands between the United States and Mexico. In America’s Most Alarming Writer, key figures in his life—including his editors, collaborators, and other writers—deliver a literary wake for the man who inspired them throughout his forty-year career. Part revelation, part critical assessment, the fifty essays in this collection span the decades from Bowden’s rise as an investigative journalist through his years as a singular voice of unflinching honesty about natural history, climate change, globalization, drugs, and violence. As the Chicago Tribune noted, “Bowden wrote with the intensity of Joan Didion, the voracious hunger of Henry Miller, the feral intelligence and irony of Hunter Thompson, and the wit and outrage of Edward Abbey.” An evocative complement to The Charles Bowden Reader, the essays and photographs in this homage brilliantly capture the spirit of a great writer with a quintessentially American vision. Bowden is the best writer you’ve (n)ever read.
Author : Peter Wild
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292786684
The opalescent deserts of the American Southwest have become romantic icons in the public imagination through the words of writers, the images of artists and photographers, and the visual storytelling of filmmakers. In this spirited, personal, beautifully written book, Peter Wild explores the lives and works of sixteen writers whose words have shaped our visions of the opal desert. Wild begins with Cabeza de Vaca, whose Relación of his desert wanderings sent treasure-hungry Spaniards searching for cities of gold. He goes on to discuss the works of both widely read and lesser-known nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors, including such luminaries as Mary Austin, Joseph Wood Krutch, Edward Abbey, Ann Zwinger, and Charles Bowden. He links all the writers as explorers of one kind or another, searching for tangible or intangible treasures, some finding and some losing their dreams in the opal desert.
Author : Nicole Brossard
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1552451720
Fifteen-year-old Mélanie drives across the Arizona desert in a white Meteor, chasing fear and desire and the mysterious Angela Parkins, and breaking free from her mother and her mother's lover in their roadside Mauve Motel. And then we are with Maude Laures as she reads Mauve Desert, this story of Melanie, and becomes obsessed with it. She embarks on an extraordinary quest for its mysterious author, characters and meaning, which leads us into the third part, Mauve, the Horizon, Laures's eventual translation of Mauve Desert.
Author : Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822521407
Go on a journey that begins with a few drops of rain on the dry desert floor. Using the Sonoran Desert as an example, Life in a Desert examines the physical features, processes, and many different species of plants and animals that make up a unique desert ecosystem. Find out about the impact of humans on this delicate ecosystem and what is being done to save it. Book jacket.