Author: Debra Boyd-Buggs
Publisher: Africa World Press
ISBN: 9780865437579
Category : West African literature
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
In this new volume of critical essays on the Francophone literature of countries in the African Sahel, some of the field's most distinguished scholars investigate both the written and oral genres produced in this dynamic region - work characterised by its association with the desert. Revealing the richness and complexity of little-known texts, now becoming increasingly important as Africa forms its literary canon, this is the first volume of its kind available to researchers, teachers and students in the Anglophone world.
Camel Tracks
Author: Debra Boyd-Buggs
Publisher: Africa World Press
ISBN: 9780865437579
Category : West African literature
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
In this new volume of critical essays on the Francophone literature of countries in the African Sahel, some of the field's most distinguished scholars investigate both the written and oral genres produced in this dynamic region - work characterised by its association with the desert. Revealing the richness and complexity of little-known texts, now becoming increasingly important as Africa forms its literary canon, this is the first volume of its kind available to researchers, teachers and students in the Anglophone world.
Publisher: Africa World Press
ISBN: 9780865437579
Category : West African literature
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
In this new volume of critical essays on the Francophone literature of countries in the African Sahel, some of the field's most distinguished scholars investigate both the written and oral genres produced in this dynamic region - work characterised by its association with the desert. Revealing the richness and complexity of little-known texts, now becoming increasingly important as Africa forms its literary canon, this is the first volume of its kind available to researchers, teachers and students in the Anglophone world.
Camel Tracks
Author: Andrew Goudie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781914268014
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A historical account of the biology and use of camels in the modern imperial era. This volume looks at camels in trade, pilgrimage, normadic societies, war, and travel.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781914268014
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A historical account of the biology and use of camels in the modern imperial era. This volume looks at camels in trade, pilgrimage, normadic societies, war, and travel.
From Alice to Ocean
Author: Robyn Davidson
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Presents the story of an Australian woman who set off to cross the outback, accompanied only by 4 camels and a dog. Photo CD contains photographs and narration. Apple CD contains an interactive program for the user to join the trip.
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Presents the story of an Australian woman who set off to cross the outback, accompanied only by 4 camels and a dog. Photo CD contains photographs and narration. Apple CD contains an interactive program for the user to join the trip.
Camel
Author: Hamish Kuzminski
Publisher: On Track
ISBN: 9781789520408
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Formed in Guildford, Surrey in England in 1971, Camel, though not directly part of the genre, were strongly influenced by the bands emerging from Canterbury in Kent at the same time. In particular, the band mixed humour and profundity, in a similar way to bands like Caravan and Hatfield and the North. However, and there's a clue in the name, and their music seamlessly integrated Middle Eastern and North African themes, forms and rhythms - as well as Jazz, folk and classical elements - to create an exciting and exotic new strand to the ballooning world of progressive rock in the early 1970s. After two critically well-received, but unsuccessful albums, Camel came to transatlantic attention in 1975 with the release of purely instrumental The Snow Goose, inspired by Paul Gallico's novella of the same name. The chart success of that album led to a sold-out performance in October 1975 at the Royal Albert Hall (with the London Symphony Orchestra, no less, in tow), and cemented the band's place in the ongoing story of progressive rock. The band has had its fair share of tragedy, including the death of founder Peter Bardens and serious illness to guitarist and flame-carrier Andy Latimer. Nonetheless, with Latimer still at the helm, and after almost 50 years and fourteen studio albums, Camel continue to perform to rapturous receptions across the world. This track by track analysis takes the reader along on their half-century journey, carving out a special, inimitable niche in British rock music.
Publisher: On Track
ISBN: 9781789520408
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Formed in Guildford, Surrey in England in 1971, Camel, though not directly part of the genre, were strongly influenced by the bands emerging from Canterbury in Kent at the same time. In particular, the band mixed humour and profundity, in a similar way to bands like Caravan and Hatfield and the North. However, and there's a clue in the name, and their music seamlessly integrated Middle Eastern and North African themes, forms and rhythms - as well as Jazz, folk and classical elements - to create an exciting and exotic new strand to the ballooning world of progressive rock in the early 1970s. After two critically well-received, but unsuccessful albums, Camel came to transatlantic attention in 1975 with the release of purely instrumental The Snow Goose, inspired by Paul Gallico's novella of the same name. The chart success of that album led to a sold-out performance in October 1975 at the Royal Albert Hall (with the London Symphony Orchestra, no less, in tow), and cemented the band's place in the ongoing story of progressive rock. The band has had its fair share of tragedy, including the death of founder Peter Bardens and serious illness to guitarist and flame-carrier Andy Latimer. Nonetheless, with Latimer still at the helm, and after almost 50 years and fourteen studio albums, Camel continue to perform to rapturous receptions across the world. This track by track analysis takes the reader along on their half-century journey, carving out a special, inimitable niche in British rock music.
Our Public Lands
Desert Places
Author: Robyn Davidson
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 148046404X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
From the bestselling author of Tracks: A travel writer’s memoir of her year with the nomadic Rabari tribe on the border between Pakistan and India. India’s Thar Desert has been the home of the Rabari herders for thousands of years. In 1990, Australian Robyn Davidson, “as natural a travel writer as she is an adventurer,” spent a year with the Rabari, whose livelihood is increasingly endangered by India’s rapid development (The New Yorker). Enduring the daily hardships of life in the desert while immersed in the austere beauty of the arid landscape, Davidson subsisted on a diet of goat milk, roti, and parasite-infested water. She collided with India’s rigid caste system and cultural idiosyncrasies, confronted extreme sleep deprivation, and fought feelings of alienation amid the nation’s isolated rural peoples—finding both intense suffering and a renewed sense of beauty and belonging among the Rabari family. Rich with detail and honest in its depictions of cultural differences, Desert Places is an unforgettable story of fortitude in the face of struggle and an ode to the rapidly disappearing way of life of the herders of northwestern India. “Davidson will both disturb and exhilarate readers with the acuity of her observations, the sting of her wit, and the candor of her emotions” (Booklist).
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 148046404X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
From the bestselling author of Tracks: A travel writer’s memoir of her year with the nomadic Rabari tribe on the border between Pakistan and India. India’s Thar Desert has been the home of the Rabari herders for thousands of years. In 1990, Australian Robyn Davidson, “as natural a travel writer as she is an adventurer,” spent a year with the Rabari, whose livelihood is increasingly endangered by India’s rapid development (The New Yorker). Enduring the daily hardships of life in the desert while immersed in the austere beauty of the arid landscape, Davidson subsisted on a diet of goat milk, roti, and parasite-infested water. She collided with India’s rigid caste system and cultural idiosyncrasies, confronted extreme sleep deprivation, and fought feelings of alienation amid the nation’s isolated rural peoples—finding both intense suffering and a renewed sense of beauty and belonging among the Rabari family. Rich with detail and honest in its depictions of cultural differences, Desert Places is an unforgettable story of fortitude in the face of struggle and an ode to the rapidly disappearing way of life of the herders of northwestern India. “Davidson will both disturb and exhilarate readers with the acuity of her observations, the sting of her wit, and the candor of her emotions” (Booklist).
Tracks of the Purple Camel
Author: Peter G. Williams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780987148513
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Crime fiction.In Broome in the north-west of WA, Bill Peters is tasked by the Australian Federal Police to assist them to investigate a drug-produced mass slaughterat a music concert in Sydney NSW.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780987148513
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Crime fiction.In Broome in the north-west of WA, Bill Peters is tasked by the Australian Federal Police to assist them to investigate a drug-produced mass slaughterat a music concert in Sydney NSW.
Dinosaur Tracks
Author: M. G. Lockley
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231079273
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Offering the most comprehensive and up-to-date review of fossil footprints, for both dinosaurs and other vertebrates, in the western United States, Dinosaur Tracks covers the fossil record from the Paleozoic through the Cenozoic era. A series of illustrations depict dinosaurs in the their natural habitat, and an appendix lists museums and other major repositories of tracks and replicas, and gives details on tracksites open to the public. Includes annotated references and detailed descriptions of important specimens, describing how these trackways can help interpret behavior.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231079273
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Offering the most comprehensive and up-to-date review of fossil footprints, for both dinosaurs and other vertebrates, in the western United States, Dinosaur Tracks covers the fossil record from the Paleozoic through the Cenozoic era. A series of illustrations depict dinosaurs in the their natural habitat, and an appendix lists museums and other major repositories of tracks and replicas, and gives details on tracksites open to the public. Includes annotated references and detailed descriptions of important specimens, describing how these trackways can help interpret behavior.
Camel Fables from the Sailors of the Sudan
Author: Thurlow R. Weed
Publisher: Infinity Publishing
ISBN: 0741422298
Category : Africa, North
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Publisher: Infinity Publishing
ISBN: 0741422298
Category : Africa, North
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
The Mark of Zeus
Author: C. John Alder
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595133347
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
A non-stop race across the globe to find one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595133347
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
A non-stop race across the globe to find one of the Seven Wonders of the World.