Author: Ernest FavencPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Voices of the Desert
Author: Ernest FavencPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Voices of the Desert
Author: Nélida PiñonPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307266672
Category : Brazil
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
In exquisite prose, Pinon tells the story of "One Thousand and One Nights" told from Scheherezade's perspective, giving readers the full depth and breadth of her jealousies and resentments, her longings and desires.
Desert Voices
Author: Byrd BaylorPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481417185
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
On the hottest summer afternoons when desert creatures look for shade and stay close to the earth and keep their voices low I sit high on a cactus and fling my loud ringing trill out to the sun... So sings the Cactus Wren, one of the ten desert creatures that speaks for itself in the evocative and lyrical verses of Desert Voices. In both text and illustration, Desert Voices conveys a message of spirit and courage from the shy and quiet creatures of the beautiful desert land.
Desert Oracle
Author: Ken LaynePublisher: MCD
ISBN: 0374722382
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
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.
Forgotten Voices Desert Victory
Author: Julian ThompsonPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0091938589
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Tells the story of the Allies's hard-won campaign in North Africa - starting with early Allied victories with the Desert Rats; unfolding with the strengthening of the Germans with the rise of Rommel; and ending with Montgomery's victory at Alamein, which chased the Axis Forces back into Italy.
Gadafi
Author: Mirella BiancoPublisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Voices from the Desert; Or, Thoughts and Maxims of the Early Christians. From the German
Author: Voices from the Desert
Author: Patrick Tagbo OguejioforPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Desert Voices
Author: Moneera Al-GhadeerPublisher: I.B. Tauris
ISBN: 0755652991
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Bedouin, or 'desert dwellers', have a rich cultural heritage often expressed through music and poetry. Here, Moneera Al-Ghadeer provides us with the first comparative reading of women's oral poetry from Saudi Arabia. She examines women's lyrics of love, desire, mourning and grievance. We come to understand Bedouin mores and - most significantly - the unique description of a desert that is consistently held to be infinite, evocative, stimulating and an eternal freedom. As the first English translation and analysis of this poetry, "Desert Voices" is both a gesture to preserving the oral poetic tradition of Bedouin women and a radical critique addressing the exclusion of their poetry from current academic literary studies. The book provides invaluable material for reflection in the debates around oral culture and women's poetic composition while it translates, presents and critically examins a genre, which opens Arabic poetry and literature to contemporary theory and criticism.
Voices from the Desert
Author: Leslie GriffithsPublisher: Canterbury Press Norwich
ISBN: 9781853114915
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The idea of the desert as being a place where we escape the pressures of everyday life in order to hear God speak afresh is intimately associated with Jesus' 40 days in the wilderness - our model for keeping Lent today. It is easy to gain a romantic idea of desert sands beneath starlit skies, but in reality the desert is a hard palce tat tests our endurance and few venture there, geographically or emotionally. Reflecting on the work of writers such as Salman Rushdie and R.S Thomas, and bands such as the "Manic Street Preachers", Leslie Griffiths explores the deserts in today's world and teaches us to hear the voices of these unlikely prophets who tell the truth about the human condition and challenge us to change.