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Desert Woman

Author : Kathleen St. Clair
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1490854002
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Desert Woman written by Kathleen St. Clair and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old Kelsey Herring loved the stories her father always told; her favorite was a ghost story known as ?The Desert Woman.? When life-changing events occurred, Kelsey and her brother Skyler found themselves moving from the forests and lakes of Michigan to the hot, arid, and rugged country of an Arizona cattle ranch. Here, Kelsey meets the Desert Woman she had always imagined in her father's story. What she discovers is a truth she could never have gleaned from a mere story. What is the message to be learned from the true Desert Woman, and can the amazing things Kelsey learns from her help to heal a heart shattered by tragic events?

Desert Indian Woman

Author : Frances Manuel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Desert Indian Woman written by Frances Manuel and published by . This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basket weaver, storyteller, and tribal elder, Frances Manuel is a living preserver of Tohono O'odham culture. Speaking to anthropologist Deborah Neff, who has known her for over twenty years, she tells of O'odham culture and society and of the fortunes and misfortunes of Native Americans in the southwestern borderlands over the past century.

Desert Sojourn

Author : Debi Holmes-Binney
Publisher : Seal Press
ISBN 13 : 1580050409
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Desert Sojourn written by Debi Holmes-Binney and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2000-05-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At age 31, having left a stifling decade-long marriage, Debi Holmes Binney set off alone into the harsh Utah desert to find direction and spiritual renewal. Armed with only basic supplies and her writing journals, she spent an extended sojourn in a place by turns physically terrifying, psychologically invigorating, and gloriously beautiful. Her moving account will appeal to both physical and spiritual adventurers.

A Woman in Arabia

Author : Gertrude Bell
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101636955
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book A Woman in Arabia written by Gertrude Bell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait in her own words of the female Lawrence of Arabia, the subject of the PBS documentary Letters from Baghdad, voiced by Tilda Swinton, and the major motion picture Queen of the Desert, starring Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis, and Robert Pattinson and directed by Werner Herzog Gertrude Bell was leaning in 100 years before Sheryl Sandberg. One of the great woman adventurers of the twentieth century, she turned her back on Victorian society to study at Oxford and travel the world, and became the chief architect of British policy in the Middle East after World War I. Mountaineer, archaeologist, Arabist, writer, poet, linguist, and spy, she dedicated her life to championing the Arab cause and was instrumental in drawing the borders that define today’s Middle East. As she wrote in one of her letters, “It’s a bore being a woman when you are in Arabia.” Forthright and spirited, opinionated and playful, and deeply instructive about the Arab world, this volume brings together Bell’s letters, military dispatches, diary entries, and travel writings to offer an intimate look at a woman who shaped nations. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Desert Songs

Author : Arita Baaijens
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774162114
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book Desert Songs written by Arita Baaijens and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arita Baaijens gave up her job as an environmentalist nearly twenty years ago, and has been exploring the deserts of Egypt and Sudan with her small camel caravan ever since. In Desert Songs she recounts her passion for the desert, the place she loves and fears. On one level Desert Songs reads as an ode to camels, vistas and horizons, nomads and exploration. On another it is a story about an inward journey, a rite of passage. It is about leaving the world you know to venture into the unknown where you discover your true strength. How strong are you when there's no backup? Where do your limits lie? Baaijens sets out on a voyage of self-discovery and unrelenting physical trials to find the answers. The experience changes her forever.

Wild Woman

Author : Amy Frykholm
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1506471854
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Wild Woman written by Amy Frykholm and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the dusty corner of a library, journalist Amy Frykholm discovers a footnote that leads her on a decades-long search for Mary of Egypt--runaway, prostitute, holy desert dweller, saint, and archetypal wild woman. As their storylines crisscross maps and centuries, both become more fully revealed--in the embrace of the sacred.

Desert Girl, Monsoon Boy

Author : Tara Dairman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525518061
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Desert Girl, Monsoon Boy written by Tara Dairman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extreme weather affects two children's lives in very different ways and shows how the power of nature can bring us together. One girl. One boy. Their lives couldn't be more different. While she turns her shoulder to sandstorms and blistering winds, he cuffs his pants when heavy rains begin to fall. As the weather becomes more severe, their families and animals must flee to safety--and their destination shows that they might be more alike than they seem. The journeys of these two children experiencing weather extremes in India highlight the power of nature and the resilience of the the human spirit.

Desert Queen

Author : Janet Wallach
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307744361
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Desert Queen written by Janet Wallach and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography, mesmerizing and “richly textured ” (Chicago Tribune), that inspired the acclaimed documentary, Letters from Baghdad. With a new Afterword "Desert Queen...plucks Gertrude Bell out of the shadow of Lawrence of Arabia." —The Boston Globe Here is the story of Gertrude Bell, who explored, mapped, and excavated the Arab world throughout the early twentieth century. Recruited by British intelligence during World War I, she played a crucial role in obtaining the loyalty of Arab leaders, and her connections and information provided the brains to match T. E. Lawrence's brawn. After the war, she played a major role in creating the modern Middle East and was, at the time, considered the most powerful woman in the British Empire. In this masterful biography, Janet Wallach shows us the woman behind these achievements—a woman whose passion and defiant independence were at odds with the confined and custom-bound England she left behind. Too long eclipsed by Lawrence, Gertrude Bell emerges at last in her own right as a vital player on the stage of modern history, and as a woman whose life was both a heartbreaking story and a grand adventure.

Desert Places

Author : Robyn Davidson
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 148046404X
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Desert Places written by Robyn Davidson and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

Desert of the Heart

Author : Jane Rule
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480429406
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Desert of the Heart written by Jane Rule and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A landmark work of lesbian fiction” and the basis for the acclaimed film Desert Hearts (The New York Times). Against the backdrop of Reno, Nevada, in the late 1950s, award-winning author Jane Rule chronicles a love affair between two women. When Desert of the Heart opens, Evelyn Hall is on a plane that will take her from her old life in Oakland, California, to Reno, where she plans to divorce her husband of sixteen years. A voluntary exile in a brave new world, she meets a woman who will change her life. Fifteen years younger, Ann Childs works as a change apron in a casino. Evelyn is instantly drawn to the fiercely independent Ann, and their friendship soon evolves into a romantic relationship. An English professor who had always led a conventional life, Evelyn suddenly finds all her beliefs about love, morality, and identity called into question. Peopled by a cast of unforgettable characters, this is a novel that dares to ask whether love between two women can last.

Blue Desert

Author : Celia Jeffries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781578690442
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Blue Desert written by Celia Jeffries and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1910, sixteen-year-old Alice George and her family leave England for a new life in Morocco. A headstrong young woman, Alice is fascinated by the exotic life of Marrakesh until two years later she is abducted into the Sahara after a car accident. She is rescued by Abu, chief of his Tuareg tribe, and begins a life of freedom that she never could have imagined in corseted England.In 1917, after the tribe takes her son away from her, Alice escapes with her slave/companion. He betrays her, she becomes captive in a harem and murders a man, then escapes. She is 'found' by the Sisters of Blessed Mercy and returned home to a world completely alien to the one she had left seven years before, a world she believes cannot include her life in the Sahara. Decades later she receives a telegram announcing that Abu has died in the desert. "Who is Abu?" her husband asks. "My lover," she answers. Thus begins a seven-day journey of revelation as Alice struggles to come to terms with her life in the desert and with the fact that her greatest secret-the son she left behind-is coming at the end of the week.The story opens with the telegram, then moves back in time to recount the family's departure from England and arrival in Morocco, then forward to the opening storyline. Alice goes to stay with her sister and they finally tell each other about their lives before and after the abduction. Meanwhile her husband Martin uses his contacts as a government consultant to uncover the truth about Alice, Abu, and their son.At the end of the week Martin and Alice reunite in London and await her son, who arrives with her granddaughter.

Daisy Bates in the Desert

Author : Julia Blackburn
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307829235
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Daisy Bates in the Desert written by Julia Blackburn and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1913, at the age of 54, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. Brilliantly reviewed, astonishingly original, this "eloquent and illuminating portrait of an extraordinary woman" (New York Times Book Review) tells a fascinating, true story in the tradition of Isak Dinesen and Barry Lopez.

Woman in World History

Author : Ebe Minerva White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Woman in World History written by Ebe Minerva White and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Desert Farmer

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Desert Farmer written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Desert Wife

Author : Hilda Faunce
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803268531
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book Desert Wife written by Hilda Faunce and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wife of an Indian trader tells of her life in the Four Corners country where Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado touch.

Forgotten Desert Mothers, The

Author : Swan, Laura
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 1587689936
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Desert Mothers, The written by Swan, Laura and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Forgotten Desert Mothers, Laura Swan introduces readers to the sayings, lives, stories, and spirituality of women in the early Christian desert and monastic movement, from the third century on. In doing so, she finally sets the record straight that women played an important and influential role in early Christianity, indeed a role that has been long overshadowed by men. She begins with an exploration of the historical context and spirituality of the desert ascetics. Then she weaves together the sayings of the major desert ammas, or mothers, along with commentary that invites readers to reflect on their own spiritual journey as they share their wisdom. The book then journeys between desert, monastery and city to reveal the stories of ascetics and solitaries whose stories are rarely heard, organized in the author's own alphabetical collection. The Forgotten Desert Mothers demonstrates, like no other work, that women have long had a history of leadership in Christianity. This engaging, eye-opening, and insightful work targets all faith seekers looking to reclaim the history and spirituality of the women who came before them, as well as to understand their own inner journey. It will be a welcome addition to courses on early church history, women's studies, and religious studies.

Desert Woman

Author : Kathleen St. Clair
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1490854029
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Desert Woman written by Kathleen St. Clair and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old Kelsey Herring loved the stories her father always told; her favorite was a ghost story known as The Desert Woman. When life-changing events occurred, Kelsey and her brother Skyler found themselves moving from the forests and lakes of Michigan to the hot, arid, and rugged country of an Arizona cattle ranch. Here, Kelsey meets the Desert Woman she had always imagined in her fathers story. What she discovers is a truth she could never have gleaned from a mere story. What is the message to be learned from the true Desert Woman, and can the amazing things Kelsey learns from her help to heal a heart shattered by tragic events?