In the Deserts of this Earth
Author | : Uwe George |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Uwe George |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael Martin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780500511947 |
From the Rub al-Khali and the Sinai to the Great Sandy, the Great Basin and the Kalahari, Michael Martin, an internationally renowned photographer, has travelled through every desert on Earth, crossing Asia, Australia, the Americas and Africa, to compile this beautifully photographed volume. Far from being bleak and barren wastelands, these deserts boast natural features of staggering beauty. Afghanistan’s Bamian region is notable for its deep turquoise lakes set amidst towering, rocky mountains. The Danakil’s unnamed volcanoes glow in the Ethiopian night, while Chile’s Atacama region harbours geysers that can erupt at any moment. In addition to these awe-inspiring landscapes, Martin introduces us to the stoic peoples who eke out an existence in such inhospitable environments.
Author | : William Atkins |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2018-07-24 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0385539894 |
Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year (UK) "William Atkins is an erudite writer with a wonderful wit and gaze and this is a new and exciting beast of a travel book."—Joy Williams In the classic literary tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Geoff Dyer, a rich and exquisitely written account of travels in eight deserts on five continents that evokes the timeless allure of these remote and forbidding places. One-third of the earth's surface is classified as desert. Restless, unhappy in love, and intrigued by the Desert Fathers who forged Christian monasticism in the Egyptian desert, William Atkins decided to travel in eight of the world's driest, hottest places: the Empty Quarter of Oman, the Gobi Desert and Taklamakan deserts of northwest China, the Great Victoria Desert of Australia, the man-made desert of the Aral Sea in Kazkahstan, the Black Rock and Sonoran Deserts of the American Southwest, and Egypt's Eastern Desert. Each of his travel narratives effortlessly weaves aspects of natural history, historical background, and present-day reportage into a compelling tapestry that reveals the human appeal of these often inhuman landscapes.
Author | : Aidan Tynan |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2020-06-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1474443370 |
Aidan explores the ways in which Nietzsche's warning that 'the desert grows' has been taken up by Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze in their critiques of modernity, and the desert in literature ranging from T.S Eliot to Don DeLillo; from imperial travel writing to postmodernism; and from the Old Testament to salvagepunk.
Author | : Ken Layne |
Publisher | : MCD |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2020-12-08 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0374722382 |
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 | : Miranda Macquitty |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2000-05-31 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0756668107 |
Warm deserts make up an estimated 1/5 of the Earth's surface and present unique challenges to the creatures, plants, and people that survive the temperature extremes. Desert is a detailed guide to some of the most inhospitable places on Earth, and offers spectacular full-color photographs to give readers an "eyewitness" view of life in the desert. See thestunning sand dunes of the Namib Desert, a Bedouin in full wedding dress, the desert in bloom, a jewel wasp, and a camel's regalia. Learn how sand dunes form, how a few honeypot ants store food for a whole nest in their own bodies, and howa mummy is preserved in sand. Discover why a Tuareg woman never uncovers her face, what makes a dromedary different from a Bactrian camel, the mystery of Timbuktu, and why some desert animals have big ears, and much, much more! Discover the harsh world of hot and cold deserts and the people, plants, and animals that live in them.
Author | : Grace Hansen |
Publisher | : ABDO |
Total Pages | : 27 |
Release | : 2016-08-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1680805568 |
Readers will learn about the four major desert biomes, which are hot and dry, semiarid, coastal, and cold deserts. The text will focus on the climate and the very special plants and animals that are found in deserts around the world. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids is a division of ABDO.
Author | : Sadakat Kadri |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2012-04-10 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0374168725 |
Kadri brings lucid wit and analytical skill to the thrilling and turbulent story of Islam's foundation and expansion and the real meaning behind shari'a law.
Author | : Matthew R. Simmons |
Publisher | : Wiley + ORM |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2011-01-04 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 111804052X |
Twilight in the Desert reveals a Saudi oil and production industry that could soon approach a serious, irreversible decline. In this exhaustively researched book, veteran oil industry analyst Matthew Simmons draws on his three-plus decades of insider experience and more than 200 independently produced reports about Saudi petroleum resources and production operations. He uncovers a story about Saudi Arabias troubled oil industry, not to mention its political and societal instability, which differs sharply from the globally accepted Saudi version. Its a story that is provocative and disturbing, based on undeniable facts, but until now never told in its entirety. Twilight in the Desert answers all readers questions about Saudi oil and production industries with keen examination instead of unsubstantiated posturing, and takes its place as one of the most important books of this still-young century.
Author | : Scholastic Library Publishing |
Publisher | : Children's Press(CT) |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2006-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780531178874 |
"Simple text and supportive images introduce beginning readers to the physical characteristics and geographic locations of deserts"--Provided by publisher.