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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Rambles Through the Fields of Nature
Author: Rambles in Bible Lands
Author: Richard NewtonPublisher:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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A Ramble Round the World, 1871
Author: Alexander Graf von HübnerPublisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Illustrated Rambles in Bible Lands
Author: Richard NewtonPublisher:
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Category : Eretz Israel
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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The Stones of Palestine: Notes of a Ramble Through the Holy Land ...
Author: Mrs. Mentor MottPublisher:
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Category : Palestine
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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The Old Continental
Author: James Kirke PauldingPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Palestinian Walks
Author: Raja ShehadehPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416570098
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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“A rare historical insight into the tragic changes taking place in Palestine.” —Jimmy Carter From one of Palestine’s leading writers, a lyrical, elegiac account of one man’s wanderings through the landscape he loves—once pristine, now forever changed by settlements and walls—updated with a new afterword by the author. “I often come to walk in these hills,” I said to the man who was doing all the talking and seemed to be the commander. “In fact I was once here with my wife, it was 1999, and some of your soldiers shot at us.” “It was over on that side,” the soldier pointed out. “I was there,” he said, smiling. When Raja Shehadeh first started hill walking in Palestine, in the late 1970s, he was not aware that he was traveling through a vanishing landscape. In recent years, his hikes have become less than bucolic and sometimes downright dangerous. That is because his home is Ramallah, on the Palestinian West Bank, and the landscape he traverses is now the site of a tense standoff between his fellow Palestinians and settlers newly arrived from Israel. In this original and evocative book, we accompany Raja on six walks taken between 1978 and 2006. The earlier forays are peaceful affairs, allowing our guide to meditate at length on the character of his native land, a terrain of olive trees on terraced hillsides, luxuriant valleys carved by sacred springs, carpets of wild iris and hyacinth and ancient monasteries built more than a thousand years ago. Shehadeh's love for this magical place saturates his renderings of its history and topography. But latterly, as seemingly endless concrete is poured to build settlements and their surrounding walls, he finds the old trails are now impassable and the countryside he once traversed freely has become contested ground. He is harassed by Israeli border patrols, watches in terror as a young hiking companion picks up an unexploded missile and even, on one occasion when accompanied by his wife, comes under prolonged gunfire. Amid the many and varied tragedies of the Middle East, the loss of a simple pleasure such as the ability to roam the countryside at will may seem a minor matter. But in Palestinian Walks, Raja Shehadeh's elegy for his lost footpaths becomes a heartbreaking metaphor for the deprivations of an entire people estranged from their land.
Rambles Through the British Isles
Author: Richard HarcourtPublisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Louisiana Rambles
Author: Ian McNultyPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1604739479
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
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"McNulty delivers an inimitable take on Cajun and Creole Louisiana--the siren call of zydeco dancehalls pulsing in the country darkness; of crawfish "boiling points" and traditional country smokehouses; of Cajun jam sessions, where even wallflowers are compelled to dance; of equine gambits in the cradle of jockeys; and of fishing trips where anyone can land impressive catches. In south Louisiana, distilled European heritage, the African American experience, and modern southern exuberance mix with tumultuous history and fantastically fecund natural environments. The territories McNulty opens to the reader are arguably the nation's most exotic and culturally distinct destinations"--Page 4 of cover.
Author: Hugh Miller