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Author | : Amjad Nasser |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2014-06-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9927101171 |
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Land of No Rain takes place in Hamiya, a fictional Arab country run by military commanders who treat power as a personal possession to be handed down from one generation to the next. The main character was forced into exile from Hamiya twenty years earlier for taking part in a failed assassination attempt on the military ruler known as the Grandson. On his return to his homeland, he encounters family, childhood friends, former comrades and his first love, but most importantly he grapples with his own self, the person he left behind. Land of No Rain is a complex and mysterious story of the hardship of exile and the difficulty of return.
Author | : Mary Austin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : |
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Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) moved with her family from Illinois to the desert on the edge of the San Joaquin Valley in 1888. In the next fifteen years she moved from one desert community to another, working on her sketches of desert and Indian life. Spending the last years of her life in Santa Fe, Austin remained a lifelong defender of Native Americans and was recoginzed as an expert in Native American poetry. The Land of little rain (1903), Austin's first book, focused on the arid and semi-arid regions of California between the High Sierras south of Yosemite: the Ceriso, Death Valley, the Mojave Desert; and towns such as Jimville, Kearsarge, and Las Uvas. She wrote of the region's climate, plants, and animals and of its people: the Ute, Paiute, Mojave, and Shoshone tribes; European-American gold prospectors and borax miners; and descendants of Hispanic settlers.
Author | : Mary Austin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Originally published in 1903, this classic nature book by Mary Austin evokes the mysticism and spirituality of the American Southwest. Vibrant imagery of the landscape between the high Sierras and the Mojave Desert is punctuated with descriptions of the fauna, flora and people that coexist peacefully with the earth. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author | : Mary Hunter Austin |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2018-03-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781379169949 |
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Alice Mead |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2003-05-08 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374372888 |
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"An artfully told story . . . The history, the land, and the determination of a band of refugees to care for each other are vividly evoked in this important work." -- Starred review, Kirkus Reviews In the dry spring of 1999, eleven-year-old Stephen Majok watches as his friend Wol joins a circle of dancers. Wol is celebrating – only fourteen, he is engaged to Stephen’s sister. Wol wants to marry because he might join the guerrillas in southern Sudan and fight the northern government soldiers. He wants a wife to remember him. Stephen thinks Wol is crazy. Children should study. But because of the civil war, there has been no school in their village for over a year. All Stephen has left from his student days is his books and one precious pencil, and the hunger for knowledge. Then, suddenly – but not unexpectedly – exploding bombs are heard in the tiny village. Stephen’s mother tells him to hurry, pack his bag, and hide beyond the forest with Wol and their friend Deng. Stephen grabs his geography book, his pencil, and little else. He does not want to leave his mother and sister. He does not want to leave the life he loves. In her latest portrayal of “children caught in the cultural crossfire” (School Library Journal), Alice Mead emphasizes the attachment all humans have to the small place on earth we call home, and our resistance to being displaced, even when our very lives are threatened.
Author | : Amjad Nasser |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-06-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9789992194584 |
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Land of No Rain takes place in Hamiya, a fictional Arab country run by military commanders who treat power as a personal possession to be handed down from one generation to the next. The main character was forced into exile from Hamiya twenty years earlier for taking part in a failed assassination attempt on the military ruler known as the Grandson. On his return to his homeland, he encounters family, childhood friends, former comrades and his first love, but most importantly he grapples with his own self, the person he left behind. Land of No Rain is a complex and mysterious story of the hardship of exile and the difficulty of return.
Author | : Bernard L. Fontana |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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An appreciation of the Tohono O'odham (long known as the Papago) Indians, whose reservation is the second largest in the United States. "Fontana, who has lived at the edge of the Tohono O'odham (formerly Papago) Reservation for decades, provides sympathetic insight into the history and lifeways of these gentle desert dwellers. Schaefer's photographs, many of them portraits, add timeliness and immediate presence." --Books of the Southwest "An unsurpassed insight into the Papago world, past and present." --Arizona Highways
Author | : Elmer Kelton |
Publisher | : TCU Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780912646893 |
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Repub. of Doubleday 1973 edition, with new introductions by Kelton and an afterword.
Author | : Timothy Egan |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2011-05-18 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0307794717 |
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A fantastic book! Timothy Egan describes his journeys in the Pacific Northwest through visits to salmon fisheries, redwood forests and the manicured English gardens of Vancouver. Here is a blend of history, anthropology and politics.
Author | : Mira Lee |
Publisher | : Land of Silver Rain |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 9781600090493 |
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As the 10th Sea witch unfolds her evil plan to ensnare the life of Sirius, the Prince of Unicorns, Misty-Rain struggles with her school work. Sirius grows more and more popular, but begins to deteriorate physically as the witch's deadly potions take effect. Desperate to save his life, the Unicorn Kingdom tries to retrieve the Prince, but the only ting standing in their way is the life of Misty-Rain.