Author: Halford John Mackinder
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Author: sir Halford John Mackinder
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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Author: Leon McCarron
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 178673284X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Shortlisted for the Adventure Travel Book of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. There are many reasons why it might seem unwise to walk, mostly alone, through the Middle East. That, in part, is exactly why Leon McCarron did it. From Jerusalem, McCarron followed a series of wild hiking trails that trace ancient trading and pilgrimage routes and traverse some of the most contested landscapes in the world. In the West Bank, he met families struggling to lead normal lives amidst political turmoil and had a surreal encounter with the world's oldest and smallest religious sect. In Jordan, he visited the ruins of Hellenic citadels and trekked through the legendary Wadi Rum. His journey culminated in the vast deserts of the Sinai, home to Bedouin tribes and haunted by the ghosts of Biblical history. The Land Beyond is a journey through time, from the quagmire of current geopolitics to the original ideals of the faithful, through the layers of history, culture and religion that have shaped the Holy Land. But at its heart, it is the story of people, not politics and of the connections that can bridge seemingly insurmountable barriers.

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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 1024

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Author: Jack Ives
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
ISBN: 1602231052
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Geographer Jack Ives moved to Canada in 1954, and soon after he played an instrumental role in the establishment of the McGill Sub-Arctic Research Laboratory in central Labrador-Ungava. This fascinating account of his fifty-plus years living and working in the arctic is simultaneously a light-hearted, winning memoir and a call to action on the issues of environmental awareness and conservation that are inextricably intertwined with life in the north. Mixing personal impressions of key figures of the postwar scientific boom with the intellectual drama of field research, The Land Beyond is a memorable depiction of a life in science.

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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1030

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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 2094

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Author: Edmund Hamilton Smith
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1152

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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 500

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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 768

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