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Palmyra has long attracted the attention of the world. Even before its rediscovery in the eighteenth century it had gained legendary status because of its third-century CE Queen Zenobia, who had rebelled against the Romans and expanded Palmyra's territory into that of an Empire, stretchingfrom what is modern eastern Turkey into Egypt. The city and its queen featured in European art and literature already in the century. Zenobia's Palmyra already existed as a mirage in the minds of the educated Europeans. Even though Zenobia's reign and extensive power was a fairly short interlude andthe Romans struck hard against the Palmyrenes devastating the city, this path to imperial power was one which tells us an immense amount about Palmyrene identity in the period before the devastation. While Zenobia has gained renewed interest among both scholars and the press, and while she hasserved as a political symbol for Syria's president As'ad (a statue of her was recently erected in Damascus), the time leading up to her reign still remains underexplored.With the current situation in Syria, a researched-based narrative is urgently needed to communicate the importance of this site to the general public. Palmyra has over the last years been used as a symbol of the resistance of the rebels, the power of ISIS over the region, as well as the supremacy ofthe Syrian state. UNESCO and the Russians have together with the Syrian state taken a particular interest in Palmyra and in monopolizing the potential rebuilding of the site after the destruction and looting of the past several years have subsided. We are, so to speak, standing at yet anotherturning point in Palmyra's long history, where history is being reinvented actively by several parties. There can be no doubt that the time is ripe for a book on the archaeology and history of Palmyra, as well as an analysis of the current situation, including the destruction and illicit traffickingof material remains from Palmyra. These three main topics will together highlight the ways in which this fascinating site has again and again captured the world's focus.Organized in nine chapters, this compact book will set out to provide an introduction for students and general readers. Following two overview chapters, the next six will give a chronological narrative of Palmyra from the late Hellenistic period through to Rome's destruction in 273 CE and itssurvival in the Byzantine and medieval Islamic periods. The book ends with a shorter conclusion chapter, which will summarize the most important findings and conclusions of the chapters of the book and will set out a number of lines of enquiry which could be taken up in research and culturalheritage management over the coming years. The result will be the best and most up-to-date account of Palmyra in English.
The Arab of the Desert (RLE Saudi Arabia) by H.R.P. Dickson Pdf
H.R.P. Dickson had the good fortune to spend many years among the Badawin, living and travelling with them as one of them in their own tents. In this book, first published in 1949, the author uses his great experience and knowledge to reveal all aspects of the lives of the nomadic desert Arabs, from social systems to marriage and children, from faith to food, sandstorms, warfare and hunting. The Arab of the Desert is truly a wealth of information, informed by personal insight and anecdotes.
Beautiful Star And I On Desert Island by Feng Feiyang Pdf
I went to Rio to watch the Olympics, but unexpectedly, I met with a plane crash and landed on a deserted island. At the same time, I landed on a desert island with a few beautiful celebrities ...
Rome in Egypt's Eastern Desert by Hélène Cuvigny Pdf
A detailed archaeological study of life in Egypt's Eastern desert during the Roman period by a leading scholar Rome in Egypt’s Eastern Desert is a two-volume set collecting Hélène Cuvigny’s most important articles on Egypt’s Eastern Desert during the Roman period. The excavations she directed uncovered a wealth of material, including tens of thousands of texts written on pottery fragments (ostraca). Some are administrative texts, but many more are correspondence, both official and private, written by and to the people (mostly but not all men) who lived and worked in these remote and harsh environments, supported by an elaborate network of defense, administration, and supply that tied the entire region together. The contents of Rome in Egypt’s Eastern Desert have all been published earlier in peer-reviewed venues, but most appear here for the first time in English. All of the contributions have been checked or translated by the editor and brought up to date with respect to bibliography, and some have been significantly rewritten by the author, in order to take account of the enormous amount of new material discovered since the original publications. A full index makes this body of work far more accessible than it was before. This book assembles into one collection thirty years of detailed study of this material, conjuring in vivid detail the lived experience of those who inhabited these forts—often through their own expressive language—and the realia of desert geography, military life, sex, religion, quarry operations, and imperial administration in the Roman world.
The Coachella Valley Preserve by Yvonne Pacheco Tevis Pdf
This true story is set in the Coachella Valley, the desert region best known for Palm Springs, California, a glamorous and sunny resort for the rich and famous, filled with emerald green golf courses, lakes, condominiums, and sunset-capped blue mountains. Yvonne Tevis here delineates the ongoing intense battle between developers and conservationists over how this precious land should be used. Basing her tale around the fight to save the habitat of an endangered species, the fringe-toed lizard, Tevis includes: interviews, maps, illustrations, notes, and a comprehensive bibliography, with valid arguments presented on both sides of the issue. A must read for all those concerned with protecting our environment.
Author : United States. Department of the Interior Publisher : Unknown Page : 736 pages File Size : 52,9 Mb Release : 1916 Category : Public lands ISBN : STANFORD:36105063046317
Dark Desert Hot River is a study of the historical background of the Gulf War, starting with T. E. Lawrence and the development of British interests in the Middle East, leading to the emergence of the Baath Party in Iraq and the rise of Saddam Hussein. The long essay on Lawrence is marbled with unexpected connectionsvignettes of E. M. Forster, Marcel Proust, Henry James, Joseph Conrad and Roger Casement, all in some way connected with Lawrence. The war journal details the six months leading up to the war and includes a picture of modern Arabia, underground gay life in the Middle East, with reports on the military situation up to the time of the authors evacuation. Waiting out the war, the author travels to Egypt and to Indiaareas affected by the conflict but in many ways oblivious of it. The visits to the great monuments of Luxor, Khajuraho, Puri, travels to Bombay and Goa, are punctuated by erotic incidents with fellahin, felluca boys, adolescent draymen, young Dravidian sailors, Shiva boys and beach freaks.
'Tales from the Desert' is the compelling, true story of a British expatriate who journeyed to Saudi Arabia as a young man to seek his fortune for a couple of years and ended up staying for twenty-five. The collection of real-life tales are amusing, mystifying, captivating and at times downright terrifying.Journeying to the mystical deserts of Arabia in the 1970s, when the world economy revolved around the price of oil and the concept of Islamic fundamentalism was barely known, the author takes the reader through a joyride of experiences including the unfolding drama of the first Gulf War and a 'too close for comfort' view of the uprising during the Arab Spring.
Wilhelm Hauff,Charles Dickens,Mark Twain,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Adelbert von Chamisso,Oscar Wilde,Robert Louis Stevenson,Edgar Allan Poe,William Hope Hodgson,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,John Buchan,Louis Tracy,Bram Stoker,Anatole France,Charlotte Brontë,Emily Brontë,Jack London,Henry James,Théophile Gautier,Arthur Conan Doyle,Richard Le Gallienne,Jane Austen,Ralph Adams Cram,Thomas De Quincey,John Meade Falkner,Guy de Maupassant,Thomas Hardy,William Archer,Daniel Defoe,John Kendrick Bangs,Cleveland Moffett,Brander Matthews,Marie Belloc Lowndes,Horace Walpole,Rudyard Kipling,Lafcadio Hearn,Hugh Walpole,Ambrose Bierce,Frederick Marryat,Ellis Parker Butler,Washington Irving,Leonid Andreyev,David Lindsay,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Grant Allen,Arthur Machen,Wilkie Collins,Saki,William Makepeace Thackeray,Thomas Peckett Prest,James Malcolm Rymer,Fergus Hume,Edward Bellamy,Walter Hubbell,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Leopold Kompert,Fitz James O'Brien,Richard Marsh,Florence Marryat,Catherine Crowe,Vincent O'Sullivan,H. G. Wells,Robert W. Chambers,W. W. Jacobs,M. P. Shiel,E. F. Benson,Jerome K. Jerome,M. R. James,E. T. A. Hoffmann,Stanley G. Weinbaum,George W. M. Reynolds,H. P. Lovecraft,Robert E. Howard,Edith Nesbit,William Thomas Beckford,Francis Marion Crawford,Lucy Maud Montgomery,Mary Elizabeth Braddon,Mary Louisa Molesworth,Mary E. Wilkins Freeman,Nikolai Gogol,Mary Shelley,Elizabeth Gaskell,Edward Bulwer-Lytton,Frank R. Stockton,A. T. Quiller-Couch,Ann Radcliffe,Louisa M. Alcott,Amelia B. Edwards,Leonard Kip,Matthew Gregory Lewis,Katherine Rickford,Bithia Mary Croker,Catherine L. Pirkis,Émile Erckmann,Alexandre Chatrian,Pedro De Alarçon,Pliny the Younger,Helena Blavatsky,Villiers de l'Isle Adam,William F. Harvey,Fiona Macleod,William T. Stead,Gambier Bolton,Andrew Jackson Davis,Nizida,Walter F. Prince,Chester Bailey Fernando,William Polidori,Sabine Baring Gould
Author : Wilhelm Hauff,Charles Dickens,Mark Twain,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Adelbert von Chamisso,Oscar Wilde,Robert Louis Stevenson,Edgar Allan Poe,William Hope Hodgson,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,John Buchan,Louis Tracy,Bram Stoker,Anatole France,Charlotte Brontë,Emily Brontë,Jack London,Henry James,Théophile Gautier,Arthur Conan Doyle,Richard Le Gallienne,Jane Austen,Ralph Adams Cram,Thomas De Quincey,John Meade Falkner,Guy de Maupassant,Thomas Hardy,William Archer,Daniel Defoe,John Kendrick Bangs,Cleveland Moffett,Brander Matthews,Marie Belloc Lowndes,Horace Walpole,Rudyard Kipling,Lafcadio Hearn,Hugh Walpole,Ambrose Bierce,Frederick Marryat,Ellis Parker Butler,Washington Irving,Leonid Andreyev,David Lindsay,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Grant Allen,Arthur Machen,Wilkie Collins,Saki,William Makepeace Thackeray,Thomas Peckett Prest,James Malcolm Rymer,Fergus Hume,Edward Bellamy,Walter Hubbell,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Leopold Kompert,Fitz James O'Brien,Richard Marsh,Florence Marryat,Catherine Crowe,Vincent O'Sullivan,H. G. Wells,Robert W. Chambers,W. W. Jacobs,M. P. Shiel,E. F. Benson,Jerome K. Jerome,M. R. James,E. T. A. Hoffmann,Stanley G. Weinbaum,George W. M. Reynolds,H. P. Lovecraft,Robert E. Howard,Edith Nesbit,William Thomas Beckford,Francis Marion Crawford,Lucy Maud Montgomery,Mary Elizabeth Braddon,Mary Louisa Molesworth,Mary E. Wilkins Freeman,Nikolai Gogol,Mary Shelley,Elizabeth Gaskell,Edward Bulwer-Lytton,Frank R. Stockton,A. T. Quiller-Couch,Ann Radcliffe,Louisa M. Alcott,Amelia B. Edwards,Leonard Kip,Matthew Gregory Lewis,Katherine Rickford,Bithia Mary Croker,Catherine L. Pirkis,Émile Erckmann,Alexandre Chatrian,Pedro De Alarçon,Pliny the Younger,Helena Blavatsky,Villiers de l'Isle Adam,William F. Harvey,Fiona Macleod,William T. Stead,Gambier Bolton,Andrew Jackson Davis,Nizida,Walter F. Prince,Chester Bailey Fernando,William Polidori,Sabine Baring Gould Publisher : Good Press Page : 13812 pages File Size : 40,9 Mb Release : 2023-11-19 Category : Fiction ISBN : EAN:8596547671640
SINISTER OMENS: 560+ Supernatural Thrillers, Macabre Tales & Eerie Mysteries by Wilhelm Hauff,Charles Dickens,Mark Twain,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Adelbert von Chamisso,Oscar Wilde,Robert Louis Stevenson,Edgar Allan Poe,William Hope Hodgson,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,John Buchan,Louis Tracy,Bram Stoker,Anatole France,Charlotte Brontë,Emily Brontë,Jack London,Henry James,Théophile Gautier,Arthur Conan Doyle,Richard Le Gallienne,Jane Austen,Ralph Adams Cram,Thomas De Quincey,John Meade Falkner,Guy de Maupassant,Thomas Hardy,William Archer,Daniel Defoe,John Kendrick Bangs,Cleveland Moffett,Brander Matthews,Marie Belloc Lowndes,Horace Walpole,Rudyard Kipling,Lafcadio Hearn,Hugh Walpole,Ambrose Bierce,Frederick Marryat,Ellis Parker Butler,Washington Irving,Leonid Andreyev,David Lindsay,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Grant Allen,Arthur Machen,Wilkie Collins,Saki,William Makepeace Thackeray,Thomas Peckett Prest,James Malcolm Rymer,Fergus Hume,Edward Bellamy,Walter Hubbell,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Leopold Kompert,Fitz James O'Brien,Richard Marsh,Florence Marryat,Catherine Crowe,Vincent O'Sullivan,H. G. Wells,Robert W. Chambers,W. W. Jacobs,M. P. Shiel,E. F. Benson,Jerome K. Jerome,M. R. James,E. T. A. Hoffmann,Stanley G. Weinbaum,George W. M. Reynolds,H. P. Lovecraft,Robert E. Howard,Edith Nesbit,William Thomas Beckford,Francis Marion Crawford,Lucy Maud Montgomery,Mary Elizabeth Braddon,Mary Louisa Molesworth,Mary E. Wilkins Freeman,Nikolai Gogol,Mary Shelley,Elizabeth Gaskell,Edward Bulwer-Lytton,Frank R. Stockton,A. T. Quiller-Couch,Ann Radcliffe,Louisa M. Alcott,Amelia B. Edwards,Leonard Kip,Matthew Gregory Lewis,Katherine Rickford,Bithia Mary Croker,Catherine L. Pirkis,Émile Erckmann,Alexandre Chatrian,Pedro De Alarçon,Pliny the Younger,Helena Blavatsky,Villiers de l'Isle Adam,William F. Harvey,Fiona Macleod,William T. Stead,Gambier Bolton,Andrew Jackson Davis,Nizida,Walter F. Prince,Chester Bailey Fernando,William Polidori,Sabine Baring Gould Pdf
There is no better reading sensation than feeling the end of your hair raised in a nail-biting suspense. Here's presenting you our biggest ever supernatural collection to give you many hours of pleasurable and just enough eerie reading experience: Contents: Edgar Allan Poe: The Masque of the Red Death The Murders in the Rue Morgue... H. P. Lovecraft: The Call of Cthulhu The Dunwich Horror... Henry James: The Turn of the Screw... Mary Shelley: Frankenstein... Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles... Bram Stoker: Dracula The Jewel of Seven Stars... Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow... Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde... James Malcolm Rymer: Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street H. G. Wells: The Island of Doctor Moreau Richard Marsh: The Beetle Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla Uncle Silas... Nikolai Gogol: Dead Souls... Rudyard Kipling: The Phantom Rickshaw... Hugh Walpole: Portrait of a Man with Red Hair All Souls' Night Robert E. Howard: The 'John Kirowan' Saga The 'De Montour' Saga Cthulhu Mythos M. R. James: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary A Thin Ghost and Others Wilkie Collins: The Haunted Hotel The Dead Secret... The Woman in White Guy de Maupassant: The Horla... E. F. Benson: The Room in the Tower The Man Who Went Too Far... Nathaniel Hawthorne: The House of the Seven Gables Rappaccini's Daughter The Birth Mark... Ambrose Bierce: Can Such Things Be? The Ways of Ghosts Some Haunted Houses Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan... William Hope Hodgson: The Ghost Pirates Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder... M. P. Shiel: Shapes in the Fire... Ralph Adams Cram: Black Spirits and White Grant Allen: The Reverend John Creedy... Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto William Thomas Beckford: Vathek Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Monk Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Marie Belloc Lowndes: From Out the Vast Deep
The Greatest Adventures of Robert E. Howard (80+ Titles in One Edition) by Robert E. Howard Pdf
This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: 'Conan the Barbarian' Saga: Cimmeria The Hyborian Age The Frost Giant's Daughter The God in the Bowl The Tower of the Elephant Rogues in the House Shadows in the Moonlight Black Colossus Queen of the Black Coast The Slithering Shadow A Witch Shall Be Born The Devil in Iron The People of the Black Circle Shadows in Zamboula The Pool of the Black One Beyond the Black River The Black Stranger Red Nails Jewels of Gwahlur The Phoenix on the Sword The Scarlet Citadel The Hour of the Dragon The 'Kull' Saga: The King and the Oak The Shadow Kingdom The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune Kings of the Night The 'Solomon Kane' Saga: Red Shadows Skulls In The Stars Rattle Of Bones The Moon Of Skulls The Hills Of The Dead The Footfalls Within Wings In The Night The 'Bran Mak Morn' Saga: Kings Of The Night Worms Of The Earth The Children Of The Night The 'Turlogh Dubh O'Brien' Saga: The Dark Man The Gods Of Bal-Sagoth The 'James Allison' Saga: The Valley Of The Worm The Garden Of Fear The 'Sailor Steve Costigan' Saga: The Pit Of The Serpent The Bull-Dog Breed Sailor's Grudge Fist And Fang The Iron Man Winner Take All Waterfront Fists Champ Of The Forecastle Alleys Of Peril The TNT Punch Texas Fists The Sign Of The Snake Blow The Chinks Down! Breed Of Battle Circus Fists... The 'El Borak' Series The 'Cormac Fitzgeoffrey' Series The 'Kirby O'Donnell' Series The 'Black Vulmea' Saga The 'Steve Harrison' Series The 'Wild Bill Clanton' Collection Robert Howard (1906-1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres.
From their creation in the maw of mollusks to lustrous objects of infatuation and conflict, a revealing look at pearls’ dark history. This book is a beautifully illustrated account of pearls through millennia, from fossils to contemporary jewelry. Pearls are the most human of gems, both miraculous and familiar. Uniquely organic in origin, they are as intimate as our bodies, created through the same process as we grow bones and teeth. They have long been described as an animal’s sacrifice, but until recently their retrieval often entailed the sacrifices of enslaved and indentured divers and laborers. While the shimmer of the pearl has enticed Roman noblewomen, Mughal princes, Hollywood royalty, mavericks, and renegades, encoded in its surface is a history of human endeavor, abuse, and aspiration—pain locked in the layers of a gleaming gem.