The Desert Magazine

Author : Ken Layne
Publisher : MCD
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780374722388

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Desert Oracle by Ken Layne Pdf

The cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave—its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna, and UFOs—becomes the definitive, oracular book of the desert For the past five years, Desert Oracle has existed as a quasi-mythical, quarterly periodical available to the very determined only by subscription or at the odd desert-town gas station or the occasional hipster boutique, its canary-yellow-covered, forty-four-page issues handed from one curious desert zealot to the next, word spreading faster than the printers could keep up with. It became a radio show, a podcast, a live performance. Now, for the first time—and including both classic and new, never-before-seen revelations—Desert Oracle has been bound between two hard covers and is available to you. Straight out of Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle is “The Voice of the Desert”: a field guide to the strange tales, singing sand dunes, sagebrush trails, artists and aliens, authors and oddballs, ghost towns and modern legends, musicians and mystics, scorpions and saguaros, out there in the sand. Desert Oracle is your companion at a roadside diner, around a campfire, in your tent or cabin (or high-rise apartment or suburban living room) as the wind and the coyotes howl outside at night. From journal entries of long-deceased adventurers to stray railroad ad copy, and musings on everything from desert flora, rumored cryptid sightings, and other paranormal phenomena, Ken Layne's Desert Oracle collects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest into a single, essential volume.

Author : Tom Budlong,Joan Brooks
Publisher : Arthur H. Clark Company
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : American desert
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022783182

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The Desert Magazine by Tom Budlong,Joan Brooks Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1164 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Southwest, New
ISBN : MINN:31951000728073L

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The Desert Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1950-11
Category : Southwest, New
ISBN : UCR:31210004253637

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Desert Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter Wild
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Desert magazine (Palm Desert, Calif.)
ISBN : UCSD:31822031032766

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Desert Magazine by Peter Wild Pdf

Author : Ben Ehrenreich
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781640094710

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Desert Notebooks by Ben Ehrenreich Pdf

Layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, this New York Times Notable Book presents a stunning reckoning with our current moment and with the literal and figurative end of time. Desert Notebooks examines how the unprecedented pace of destruction to our environment and an increasingly unstable geopolitical landscape have led us to the brink of a calamity greater than any humankind has confronted before. As inhabitants of the Anthropocene, what might some of our own histories tell us about how to confront apocalypse? And how might the geologies and ecologies of desert spaces inform how we see and act toward time—the pasts we have erased and paved over, this anxious present, the future we have no choice but to build? Ehrenreich draws on the stark grandeur of the desert to ask how we might reckon with the uncertainty that surrounds us and fight off the crises that have already begun. In the canyons and oases of the Mojave and in Las Vegas’s neon apocalypse, Ehrenreich finds beauty, and even hope, surging up in the most unlikely places, from the most barren rocks, and the apparent emptiness of the sky. Desert Notebooks is a vital and necessary chronicle of our past and our present—unflinching, urgent—yet timeless and profound.

Author : Tracy Chevalier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135314101

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Encyclopedia of the Essay by Tracy Chevalier Pdf

This groundbreaking new source of international scope defines the essay as nonfictional prose texts of between one and 50 pages in length. The more than 500 entries by 275 contributors include entries on nationalities, various categories of essays such as generic (such as sermons, aphorisms), individual major works, notable writers, and periodicals that created a market for essays, and particularly famous or significant essays. The preface details the historical development of the essay, and the alphabetically arranged entries usually include biographical sketch, nationality, era, selected writings list, additional readings, and anthologies

Author : Juliana Maio
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781626340527

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City of the Sun by Juliana Maio Pdf

Espionage, love, and power play upon the shifting sands of wartime Cairo CAIRO, EGYPT 1941. As the Second World War rages, the city known as “Paris on the Nile” plays host to an international set who seem more interested in polo matches and swanky nightclubs than the Germans’ unrelenting advance across North Africa. Meanwhile, as refugees, soldiers, and spies stream into the city, the Nazis conspire with the emerging Muslim Brotherhood to fuel the Egyptian people’s seething resentment against their British overlords. Ambitious American journalist Mickey Connolly has come to Cairo to report on the true state of the war. Facing expulsion by the British for not playing by their rules, he accepts a deal from the U.S. embassy that allows him to remain in the country. His covert mission: to infiltrate the city’s thriving Jewish community and locate a refugee nuclear scientist who could be key to America’s new weapons program. But Mickey is not the only one looking for the elusive scientist. A Nazi spy is also desperate to find him—and the race is on. Into this mix an enigmatic young woman appears, a refugee herself. Her fate becomes intertwined with Mickey’s, giving rise to a story of passion, entangled commitments, and half-truths. Deftly blending the romantic noir of the classic film Casablanca with a riveting, suspenseful narrative and vivid historical detail, City of the Sun offers a stunning portrayal of a time and place that was not only pivotal for the war, but also sowed much of the turbulence in today’s Middle East.

Author : Historical Society of Palm Desert,Hal Rover
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0738559644

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Palm Desert by Historical Society of Palm Desert,Hal Rover Pdf

Desert insiders know Palm Desert as the geographic and cultural heart of the Coachella Valley. This resort town with over 30 golf courses started as a barren outpost aptly named Sand Hole. Founder Cliff Henderson envisioned a modern utopia growing from the scrub andaas a centerpieceabuilt the Shadow Mountain Club in 1948. With its glamorous figure-eight swimming pool and high-dive competitions, the club drew celebrities, presidents, and future residents. Cliffas brother Randall Henderson spotlighted another side of desert life when he established the headquarters of Desert Magazine in the new town, luring readers to pack up their jeeps and move to Palm Desert. The brothersa twin vision made Palm Desert the irresistible blend of city and wilderness it is today. Visitors can shop El Paseo, known as the aRodeo Drive of the Desert,a then in 10 minutes embark on a mountainous thrill rideathe Palms to Pines Highway.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : California, Southern
ISBN : OCLC:1038146904

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The Kingdom of the Sun by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sue Harford Ferdig Allerton
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781664287792

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Folding Chairs on the Sand by Sue Harford Ferdig Allerton Pdf

Little did Cliff Henderson know when he launched his idea to develop the ‘Sand Hole,’ Coachella Valley, into the upscale city of Palm Desert the revelations that lay before him. His endeavor led him to ‘discover’ a small group of faithful bible readers on his newly purchased land. Joining them, the group grew to become the church of General Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie. The history of the early church begins with folding chairs on the desert sand under the blue sky to a magnificent church building that seats more than a thousand people. The city of Palm Desert that Cliff developed became everything he had hoped as the ‘smartest address in the desert.’ Movie stars and captains of industry bought property to build their vacation and retirement homes designed by some of the finest architects of desert homes. The Palm Desert shopping district, El Paseo, favorably competed with upscale shopping districts of New York and Hollywood. Soon magnificent resorts with 18-hole golf courses went in along with golfing fundraisers that started with the words, Bob Hope Classics. With the development of Palm Desert, neighboring areas developed as well, all upscale and host to many different sports, such as tennis, swimming, golfing, bicycling, and triathlons.

Author : Linda W. Greene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Cattle trade
ISBN : UCBK:C025409139

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A History of Land Use in Joshua Tree National Monument by Linda W. Greene Pdf

Author : Gary Fillmore
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781615846726

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Desert Horizons-Images of James Swinnerton's Southwest by Gary Fillmore Pdf

Author : Marshal South
Publisher : Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0932653669

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Marshal South and the Ghost Mountain Chronicles by Marshal South Pdf

In the 1940s, Marshal South chronicled his family's controversial primitive lifestyle on Ghost Mountain, in what is now Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in southern California, through popular monthly articles written for Desert Magazine. This is the complete collection, along with never-before-published photos of the family.

Author : Richard E. Lingenfelter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1988-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0520908880

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Death Valley and the Amargosa by Richard E. Lingenfelter Pdf

This is the history of Death Valley, where that bitter stream the Amargosa dies. It embraces the whole basin of the Amargosa from the Panamints to the Spring Mountains, from the Palmettos to the Avawatz. And it spans a century from the earliest recollections and the oldest records to that day in 1933 when much of the valley was finally set aside as a National Monument. This is the story of an illusory land, of the people it attracted and of the dreams and delusions they pursued-the story of the metals in its mountains and the salts in its sinks, of its desiccating heat and its revitalizing springs, and of all the riches of its scenery and lore-the story of Indians and horse thieves, lost argonauts and lost mine hunters, prospectors and promoters, miners and millionaires, stockholders and stock sharps, homesteaders and hermits, writers and tourists. But mostly this is the story of the illusions-the illusions of a shortcut to the gold diggings that lured the forty-niners, of inescapable deadliness that hung in the name they left behind, of lost bonanzas that grew out of the few nuggets they found, of immeasurable riches spread by hopeful prospectors and calculating con men, and of impenetrable mysteries concocted by the likes of Scotty. These and many lesser illusions are the heart of its history.