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The Weight of Sand

Author : Edith Blais
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781771649100

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A radiant, unforgettable memoir of one woman’s 450 days spent in captivity, and her defiant refusal to have her humanity stripped away. When Edith meets Luca in a small Northern town, the two connect instantly. Under the Northern Lights, they develop a deep friendship over their shared passions: travel, living off the land, a bohemian life. In search of wanderlust, they embark on an epic road trip from Italy to Togo, where they will join their friend’s sustainable farming project. Upon arriving on the African continent, they change their itinerary and drive through Africa’s Sahel region, a haven for militant groups, where they are surrounded and captured. Little was known about Edith’s and Luca’s fate until they reappeared in Mali more than one year later, having mysteriously escaped their captors. Now, Edith shares her harrowing story with the world for the first time—complete with the poems that became a lifeline for her in captivity, which she wrote in secret with a pen borrowed from another hostage. Against the stunning but cruel backdrop of the desert, Edith recounts her months as a hostage: the oppressive heat, violent sandstorms, constant relocations, hunger strikes, and her eventual heart-pounding escape. Separated from Luca early on, she finds solidarity and comfort with a group of other female hostages, who lend her a pen to write poetry, a creative outlet that helps save her life. Edith is steadfast in her will to remain sane: she reveals her dedication to her art, and her striking ability to unsettle her captors and identify their vulnerabilities. A compelling descent into a strange, brutal universe, The Weight of Sand is ultimately a life-affirming book and a poetic celebration of one woman’s resilience.

The Weight of Sand

Author : Edith Blais
Publisher : Greystone Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1771649097

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The true story of Edith Blais's 450 days of captivity in the Sahara Desert at the hands of terrorists--and her stunning escape to freedom. In January 2019, news outlets reported that a young Canadian woman and her Italian companion were presumed kidnapped while traveling in Africa's Sahel region, a haven for jihadist groups. Little was known about the pair's fate until they reappeared in Mali fifteen months later, having apparently escaped their captors. Now, in The Weight of Sand, Edith Blais tells the harrowing story of her 450 days of captivity in the Sahara and her courageous escape. In striking, sensitive prose, she recounts the prolonged terror of her months as a hostage, enduring violent sandstorms, grueling hunger strikes, extreme isolation, and the unpredictability of her captors. The book also includes luminous poems Edith wrote in secret, which became a lifeline of creativity and one of the few possessions she smuggled out in her escape. A compelling descent into a strange, brutal universe, The Weight of Sandis ultimately a life-affirming book--a celebration of resilience by a woman who refused to have her humanity stripped away.

The World in a Grain

Author : Vince Beiser
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780399576430

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A finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world--sand--and the crucial role it plays in our lives. After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other--even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer screen and silicon chip, is made from sand. From Egypt's pyramids to the Hubble telescope, from the world's tallest skyscraper to the sidewalk below it, from Chartres' stained-glass windows to your iPhone, sand shelters us, empowers us, engages us, and inspires us. It's the ingredient that makes possible our cities, our science, our lives--and our future. And, incredibly, we're running out of it. The World in a Grain is the compelling true story of the hugely important and diminishing natural resource that grows more essential every day, and of the people who mine it, sell it, build with it--and sometimes, even kill for it. It's also a provocative examination of the serious human and environmental costs incurred by our dependence on sand, which has received little public attention. Not all sand is created equal: Some of the easiest sand to get to is the least useful. Award-winning journalist Vince Beiser delves deep into this world, taking readers on a journey across the globe, from the United States to remote corners of India, China, and Dubai to explain why sand is so crucial to modern life. Along the way, readers encounter world-changing innovators, island-building entrepreneurs, desert fighters, and murderous sand pirates. The result is an entertaining and eye-opening work, one that is both unexpected and involving, rippling with fascinating detail and filled with surprising characters.

The Book of Sand

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Dutton Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Short stories, Spanish
ISBN : UOM:39015035341034

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Thirteen new stories by the celebrated writer, including two which he considers his greatest achievements to date, artfully blend elements from many literary geares.

A Sand Book

Author : Ariana Reines
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141992709

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Deadpan, epic, and searingly charismatic, A Sand Book is at once relatable and out-of-this-world. In poems tracking climate change, bystanderism, state murder, sexual trauma, shopping, ghosting, love, and the transcendent shock of prophecy, A Sand Book chronicles new dimensions of consciousness for our strange and desperate times. What does the destruction of our soil have to do with the weather in the human soul? From sand in the gizzards of birds to the iridescence on the surface of spilt oil, from sand storms on Mars to our internet-addicted present, from the desertifying mountains of Haiti to natural disasters and state violence, A Sand Book is both a travelogue and a book of mourning.

Collection of Sand

Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780544231948

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This “brilliant collection of essays” and travelogues by the celebrated author of Invisible Cities “may change the way you see the world around you” (The Guardian, UK). Italo Calvino’s boundless curiosity and ingenious imagination are displayed in peak form in Collection of Sand, his last collection of new works published during his lifetime. Delving into the delights of the visual world—both in art and travel—the subjects of these 38 essays range from cuneiform and antique maps to Mexican temples and Japanese gardens. In Calvino’s words, this collection is “a diary of travels, of course, but also of feelings, states of mind, moods…The fascination of a collection lies just as much in what it reveals as in what it conceals of the secret urge that led to its creation” (from Collection of Sand). Never before translated into English, Collection of Sand is an incisive and often surprising meditation on observation and knowledge, “beautifully translated by Martin McLaughlin” (The Guardian, UK).

Fahrenheit 451

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743247221

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Set in the future when "firemen" burn books forbidden by the totalitarian "brave new world" regime.

A Rope of Sand

Author : Michael Kammen
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307827746

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During the twenty years before the American Revolution, thirty-seven men acted as paid agent or lobbyists for the American colonies in England. The most famous among them were Benjamin Franklin, who represented four different colonies and served for seventeen years as agenet for Pennsylvania, and Edmund Burke, who accepted the position to further his own career. Yet the other thirty-five were also a colorful and heterogenous group. This detailed study, by a Pulitzer-prize-winning historian, of their activities and of the gradual breakdown of communications between the colonies and the mother country, until the link between the two become only "a rope of sand," is, in the words of the Richmond News Leader, "a new and invigorating approach to the American fight for independence." "Soundly documented, well organized and highly readable." - The New York Historical Society Quarterly "A challenging book about an important historical institution." - The Historian "A substantial contribution to our understanding of Anglo-American history during the eighteenth century." - The New England Quarterly "Both in concept and execution, A Rope of Sand is impressive." - The Journal of American History

Soil, Silt, and Sand

Author : Jody Sullivan Rake
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781491450635

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"Teaches readers about layers and types of of soil, dirt, and earth underground"--

Ribbons of Sand

Author : Larry Points,Andrea Jauck
Publisher : Sierra Press
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1997-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 093936557X

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Ribbons of Sand by Larry Points,Andrea Jauck Pdf

Teaches young visitors to national seashores about the environment they encounter at the beach.

Empire of Sand

Author : Tasha Suri
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316449694

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*Named one of TIME's Top 100 Fantasy Books Of All Time A nobleman's daughter with magic in her blood. An empire built on the dreams of enslaved gods. Empire of Sand is Tasha Suri's lush, dazzling, Mughal India-inspired debut fantasy. The Amrithi are outcasts; nomads descended of desert spirits, they are coveted and persecuted throughout the Ambhan Empire for the power in their blood. Mehr is the illegitimate daughter of an imperial governor and an exiled Amrithi mother she can barely remember, but whose face and magic she has inherited. When Mehr's power comes to the attention of the Emperor's most feared mystics, she must use every ounce of will, subtlety, and power she possesses to resist their cruel agenda. And should she fail, the gods themselves may awaken seeking vengeance. . . "An ode to the quiet, fierce strength of women. . .pure wonder." —Samantha Shannon, New York Times bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree "Stunning and enthralling." —S. A. Chakraborty, USA Today bestselling author of The City of Brass "A darkly intricate, devastating, and utterly original story." —R. F. Kuang, award-winning author of the The Poppy War By Tasha Suri: The Books of Ambha duology Empire of Sand Realm of Ash The Burning Kingdoms trilogy The Jasmine Throne

The Book of Sand

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0140180257

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Includes the stories The Congress, Undr, The Mirror and the Mask, August 25, 1983, Blue Tigers, The Rose of Paracelsus and Shakespeare's Memory.

Seasons of Sand

Author : Ernst Aebi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Agricultural assistance
ISBN : UOM:39015032943568

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"In 1987, Ernst Aebi happened on a dismal little village in the Sahara, seven days by camel from Timbuktu. Its name was Araouane, and for centuries its abundant water supply had made it a bustling hub of the caravan routes. But now, with the region's trade all but dried up, it had been reduced to a squalid cluster of shacks with a population of 120 who found themselves virtually adrift in the desert." "It was a tableau of misery Aebi couldn't forget. He returned to Araouane with a truckload of date palms, seeds, and farm equipment, a vision of self-sufficiency he was determined to share, and an antic sense of humor that would prove to be a crucial tool. The local dialect eluded him. The villagers had never seen, let alone tasted, vegetables. It hadn't rained in more than four decades, and the water level had sunk to 170 feet below the sand. An ancient class structure supported a white merchant class that ruled the town from afar and kept in perpetual thrall the blacks who worked as their slaves mining salt." "Little by little, though, Aebi achieved success. The garden began to flourish, and those who wouldn't tend it learned they wouldn't eat. The villagers built a school, then a hotel. Former masters worked alongside former slaves, and for the first time, men alongside women. The villagers were introduced to money, and with it, to the complexities of competition and ownership, and the means as well as the hope for a better life. Most important, they tasted self-reliance, a gift that their ongoing struggles cannot erase." "Seasons of Sand is a great and often hilarious story, a real-life fable of altruism and adventure for anyone who has ever wondered whether one person can make a difference in the world."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Armies of Sand

Author : Kenneth Michael Pollack
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780190906962

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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.

Blood and Sand

Author : C. V. Wyk
Publisher : Tor Teen
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781466871915

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FORGED IN BATTLE... FROM THE DUST OF THE ARENA... A LEGEND WILL RISE The action-packed tale of a 17-year-old warrior princess and a handsome gladiator who dared take on the Roman Republic—and gave rise to the legend of Spartacus... For teens who love strong female protagonists in their fantasy and historical fiction, Blood and Sand is a stirring, yet poignant tale of two slaves who dared take on an empire by talented debut author C. V. Wyk. Roma Victrix. The Republic of Rome is on a relentless march to create an empire—an empire built on the backs of the conquered, brought back to Rome as slaves. Attia was once destined to rule as the queen and swordmaiden of Thrace, the greatest warrior kingdom the world had seen since Sparta. Now she is a slave, given to Xanthus, the Champion of Rome, as a sign of his master’s favor. Enslaved as a child, Xanthus is the preeminent gladiator of his generation. Against all odds, Attia and Xanthus form a tentative bond. A bond that will spark a rebellion. A rebellion that threatens to bring the Roman Republic to its end—and gives rise to the legend of Spartacus... The story continues in Fire and Ash, coming soon from Tor Teen. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.