The Opal Desert

Author : Di Morrissey
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781742628806

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The Opal Desert by Di Morrissey Pdf

From Australia's favourite storyteller with new novel Before the Storm out now. Kerrie, in her 40s, has just lost her famous sculptor husband who had been the centre of her existence and for whom she sacrificed her own art career. Now she needs to find the courage to rekindle her dreams. Shirley, approaching 80, believes she was betrayed by her lover many years ago and has retreated from the world, becoming a recluse living in an underground dugout. Her new friends cause her to reassess what she's done with her life. Anna, 20, has a promising athletic career but is torn between the commitment to her sport, which could carry her to the Olympics, and the other challenges in her life. Will running away solve her problems? The friendship that develops between these three women who meet in the strangely beautiful but desolate landscape of Opal Lake helps them deal with the next stage of their lives.

Author : Peter Wild
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292786684

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The Opal Desert by Peter Wild Pdf

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 : Peter Wild
Publisher : University of Utah Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874808711

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The New Desert Reader by Peter Wild Pdf

A slow change in outlook dominates the book, as attitudes shift from viewing the desert as a place of sanctity, then a land to be despised or exploited, and back to an appreciation of it as a special place, an arena of highly complex natural communities, and a wild refuge for the human body and soul.

Author : Catrin Gersdorf
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401206570

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The Poetics and Politics of the Desert by Catrin Gersdorf Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081667184

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The Opal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Patricia Shaw
Publisher : Headline
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755389551

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The Opal Seekers by Patricia Shaw Pdf

A young Irishman's journey in the land of untold riches... The Opal Seekers is a rich and vibrant novel of triumph and loss, and the ambition of those who carved out an existence for themselves in the beautiful but unforgiving land of Australia. The perfect read for fans of Colleen McCullough and Tricia McGill. In 1898 poverty threatens to destroy Trella Court's beloved family. She is left with no choice: her brother-in-law, Brodie, must leave home so that there is one less mouth to feed. Bitter with resentment, Brodie travels to Dublin where he stumbles upon a wealthy employer who offers him passage to Australia, the land of untold riches. In Brisbane, Brodie is taken in by the owner of Fairlea cattle station. But before they leave he catches sight of a beautiful opal necklace glistening in a jeweller's window and vows that one day he will go in search of the dazzling stones and make his fortune. At Fairlea, Brodie finds favour when he saves the owner's life, but Vivien Holloway, the spoilt mistress, causes trouble when her harmless flirtation with Brodie turns into a passionate affair. Soon Brodie is looking for a way out of Fairlea and he finds his escape in the hunt for opals... What readers are saying about The Opal Seekers: 'A delightful tale of hard work and suffering, love and loss' 'An outstanding story and one I couldn't put down' 'Enthralling from start to finish'

Author : Len Cram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Coober Pedy (S. Aust.)
ISBN : 0958541442

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Beautiful Coober Pedy by Len Cram Pdf

Author : Annie Proulx
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780292742628

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Red Desert by Annie Proulx Pdf

A photographic and multidisciplinary study of one of America’s last undeveloped—and most endangered—landscapes, edited by a Pulitzer Prize–winning author. A vast expanse of rock formations, sand dunes, and sagebrush in central and southwest Wyoming, the little-known Red Desert is one of the last undeveloped landscapes in the United States, as well as one of the most endangered. It is a last refuge for many species of wildlife. Sitting atop one of North America's largest untapped reservoirs of natural gas, the Red Desert is a magnet for energy producers who are damaging its complex and fragile ecosystem in a headlong race to open a new domestic source of energy and reap the profits. To capture and preserve what makes the Red Desert both valuable and scientifically and historically interesting, writer Annie Proulx and photographer Martin Stupich enlisted a team of scientists and scholars to join them in exploring the Red Desert through many disciplines: geology, hydrology, paleontology, ornithology, zoology, entomology, botany, climatology, anthropology, archaeology, sociology, and history. Their essays reveal many fascinating, often previously unknown facts about the Red Desert—everything from the rich pocket habitats that support an amazing diversity of life to engrossing stories of the transcontinental migrations that began in prehistory and continue today on I-80—which bisects the Red Desert. Complemented by Martin Stupich’s photo-essay, which portrays both the beauty and the devastation that characterize the region today, Red Desert bears eloquent witness to a unique landscape in its final years as a wild place./

Author : Catherine Asaro
Publisher : LUNA
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426806216

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The Fire Opal by Catherine Asaro Pdf

Deep in the sun-drenched desert, priestess Ginger-Sun carries the power of shape mages. And whispers abound: Is she descended from the beloved Sunset Goddess, or are her nighttime rituals filled with wickedness? Ginger herself is uncertain, until a stranger is left for dead at her feet. Thence her magic begins to burn. Fate makes Ginger the stranger's wife and therefore a target for those who would murder this man to crown another—and force her magic into twisted ferocity. For unless Ginger masters her dark powers, violence will rein in Taka Mal—and in her soul.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Cactus
ISBN : UOM:39015052503508

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Desert by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Cactus
ISBN : CORNELL:31924070898816

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Desert Plant Life by Anonim Pdf

Author : Audrey Goodman
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0816528810

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Lost Homelands by Audrey Goodman Pdf

Before the 1930s, landscapes of the American Southwest represented the migrantÕs dream of a stable and bountiful homeland. Around the time of the Great Depression, however, the Southwest suddenly became integrated into a much larger economic and cultural system. Audrey Goodman examines howÑsince that timeÑthese southwestern landscapes have come to reveal the resulting fragmentation of identity and community. Through analyzing a variety of texts and images, Goodman illuminates the ways that modern forces such as militarization, environmental degradation, internal migration, and an increased border patrol presence have shattered the perception of a secure homeland in the Southwest. The deceptive natural beauty of the Southwest deserts shields a dark history of trauma and decimation that has remained as a shadow on the regionÕs psyche. The first to really synthesize such wide-ranging material about the effects of the atomic age in the Southwest, Goodman realizes the value of combined visual and verbal art and uses it to put forth her own original ideas about reconstructing a new sense of homeland. Lost Homelands reminds us of the adversity and dislocation suffered by people of the Southwest by looking at the ways that artists, photographers, filmmakers, and writers have grappled with these problems for decades. In assessing the ruination of the region, however, Goodman argues that those same artists and writers have begun to reassemble a new sense of homeland from these fragments.

Author : Allan W. Eckert
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997-10-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0471133973

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The World of Opals by Allan W. Eckert Pdf

Readers will find fascinating details about the discovery, whereabouts, and value of famous opals, from such classic specimens as the Burning of Troy Opal to the Bonanza Opal and other more recent discoveries. Finally, the book surveys today's major opal-producing areas and provides current information on opal occurrence worldwide. Punctuating the text are useful tables, extensive glossaries of opal types and opal-related terms, and beautiful photographs that capture the essence and mystery of this most exquisite stone.

Author : Franklin Walker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520347809

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A Literary History of Southern California by Franklin Walker Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1950.

Author : Kathy J. Rygle,Stephen F. Pedersen
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780997014594

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Southwest Treasure Hunter's Gem and Mineral Guide (6th Edition) by Kathy J. Rygle,Stephen F. Pedersen Pdf

Updated 5th Edition with new sites & museums! Learn Where & How to Dig, Pan and Mine Your Own Gems & Minerals SOUTHWEST Arizona California Colorado Hawaii Kansas Nevada New Mexico Oklahoma Texas Utah Whether you’re digging for the first time or are an experienced rockhound or “prospector,” with a simple rock hammer and a little luck, you too can strike it rich ... or at the very least, have fun trying. This guide offers you easy-to-use information on the ins and outs of “fee dig” mining, complete with locations, costs, tips on technique, entertaining legends and important information on everything from safety kits to the location of the nearest restrooms. Included are resources for use in identifying your finds, exploring the lapidary arts, and further pursuing an exciting—and possibly profitable—hobby. Equipment and Clothing: What you need and where to find it (or how to make it yourself). Mining Techniques: Step-by-step instructions on panning for gold, sluicing for gems and other methods. Gem and Mineral Sites: Directions and maps, hours, fees and equipment needed. Also includes info on guide services, local camping facilities and more. Museums and Mine Tours: Where to visit commercial and historical mines, as well as museums with exhibits of gems and minerals (for help in learning what to look for). Special Events and Tourist Information: Listings of regional events involving gems and minerals, and sources of general travel and tourism information for every state. Other Features: Where to find your birthstone ... your anniversary stone ... your zodiac stone; Index by State; Index by Gem/Mineral; U.S. State Gems & Minerals Chart; and more!