Conquering the Desert
Author | : David John Gordon |
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Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Irrigation |
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Author | : David John Gordon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Irrigation |
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Author | : William Macdonald |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Author | : Charles Blackmore |
Publisher | : I.B. Tauris |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-02-15 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781845115821 |
The ferocious Taklamakan desert in Central Asia, one of the largest sandy deserts in the world and the harshest on earth, is known by the Chinese as the "desert of death" or the "place of no return." Its unknown depths are said to be haunted by demons and spirits and legend has it that ancient cities filled with treasure lie lost and buried beneath its dunes. The only certainty is that no human being in history had ever crossed it from end to end. But, after five years of planning, in 1993, Charles Blackmore together with a team of British, Chinese and Uyghurs and a caravan of thirty camels, set out to accomplish the seemingly impossible: they would cross the Taklamakan, west to east, directly through its unmapped, untrodden centre. Conquering the Desert of Death is at once a deeply personal journey and the story of an adventure that will go down in history as one of the great achievements of exploration.
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Irrigation |
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Author | : David J. Gordon |
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Release | : 1907 |
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Author | : Dick Everett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1975-06-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780686181507 |
Author | : Paul Iselin Wellman |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780803297227 |
The author covers conflicts from 1837 through 1886 in Arizona, New Mexico, and California. Important chiefs covered include Mangas Coloradas, Cochise, Victorio, Geronimo, and Captain Jack. Army officers covered include George Crook and Nelson Miles.
Author | : Aldo Sarti |
Publisher | : Tate Publishing |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2011-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1617773085 |
But when sickness comes, when lack is knocking at my door, when I find myself in the valley of the shadow of death, that is not the time to turn my back on faith. Those are the moments when my walk in faith becomes more real than ever. Faith does not stop when trouble comes; that's when faith truly begins. God promises good things to all believers. But he never promises a life free of trials or problems. In fact, regardless of what we do or how strong our faith is in good times, bad times will come. And it's when we walk through these spiritual deserts that the true strength of our faith is revealed. Aldo Sarti knows what it's like to face these dark times, to walk through deserts. In Conquering Deserts: Getting through Life's Darkest Days with God by Our Side, Aldo uses well-known stories from the Bible and incidents from his own life to show that God is always with us, especially during the most trying times. When we face life's most difficult challenges—divorce, financial trouble, losing loved ones—we also stand to receive faith's most precious rewards. Conquering Deserts shows readers how and why to keep their faith during the darkest times in their lives. Spiritual deserts cannot be avoided, but we can get through them, conquer them, and leave them in the past forever.
Author | : William Macdonald (Sc.D., F.R.S.E.) |
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Release | : 1914 |
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Author | : Michael Welland |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2014-09-15 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1780233892 |
From endless sand dunes and prickly cacti to shimmering mirages and green oases, deserts evoke contradictory images in us. They are lands of desolation, but also of romance, of blistering Mojave heat and biting Gobi cold. Covering a quarter of the earth’s land mass and providing a home to half a billion people, they are both a physical reality and landscapes of the mind. The idea of the desert has long captured Western imagination, put on display in films and literature, but these portrayals often fail to capture the true scope and diversity of the people living there. Bridging the scientific and cultural gaps between perception and reality, The Desert celebrates our fascination with these arid lands and their inhabitants, as well as their importance both throughout history and in the world today. Covering an immense geographical range, Michael Welland wanders from the Sahara to the Atacama, depicting the often bizarre adaptations of plants and animals to these hostile environments. He also looks at these seemingly infertile landscapes in the context of their place in history—as the birthplaces not only of critical evolutionary adaptations, civilizations, and social progress, but also of ideologies. Telling the stories of the diverse peoples who call the desert home, he describes how people have survived there, their contributions to agricultural development, and their emphasis on water and its scarcity. He also delves into the allure of deserts and how they have been used in literature and film and their influence on fashion, art, and architecture. As Welland reveals, deserts may be difficult to define, but they play an active role in the evolution of our global climate and society at large, and their future is of the utmost importance. Entertaining, informative, and surprising, The Desert is an intriguing new look at these seemingly harsh and inhospitable landscapes.