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Deserts and Mountains

Author : Yilmaz Alimoglu
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450227597
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Deserts and Mountains written by Yilmaz Alimoglu and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-04-23 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yilmaz Alimoglu's personal website wwww.desertsandmountains.com Follow the character of Ali Dogan as he embarks on a transformative emotional, physical and spiritual journey from east to west in Deserts and Mountains, the new philosophical novel by Yilmaz Alimoglu. Frustrated with his business, career and family, Ali Dogan, an expatriate Turk living in Canada, turns to his spiritual advisor for guidance. The sheikh counsels Ali to embark on a journey in an attempt to understand the war in his heart and to examine ever more deeply the meanings of the separation from his wife and children, and of his journey. Ali is also instructed to keep a journal of his experiences, a map of his heart; out of this journal is born Deserts and Mountains. Ali leaves his adopted home on a trip which will take him to five countries on two continents, with no fixed agenda other than to reflect on his life. He first makes his way back to his family in Turkey, a visit that raises mixed emotions for the protagonist. Having endured physical and emotional abuse at the hands of Turkish state secret agents and his father, he struggles to cope with the effects as an adult. Ali, prompted to examine his life more profoundly, seeks a broader understanding of its significance, while critically analyzing the cultural context from which he has emerged. Ali travels through Turkey, Spain and North Africa, places that bear the traces of ancient civilizations, where he experiences a dichotomy of emotions as he rediscovers love and struggles to make sense of the injustice, corruption and destitution that he witnesses. Through his observation and participation, Ali slowly begins to recognize the inherent similarities in the struggles of all humanity. The narrative shifts to a more philosophical tone as Ali begins to assimilate what he is learning and develops a fresh perspective on his own life, experiencing a spiritual renewal. “There are several themes woven into the text; friendship, loyalty, freedom, choice and its consequences; love and the individuals’ capacity both to love and be loved,” Alimoglu writes. “Aside from the journey Ali has undertaken in the physical world, an overarching theme putting all the others in context is Ali’s journey towards a deeper understanding of the spiritual tradition of Sufism.” Discover more in the pages of this engaging new book that will take you on a journey to create a map of your own heart as you explore with Ali how the difficulties of one’s past can bring a renewed understanding of possibilities for the future. “Deserts and Mountains is a remarkable volume of insight, beauty, poetic expression and spiritual development. I had to read parts of it very, very slowly so I could savor the beauty of the language and the majesty of the metaphors. I encourage you to pick it up, get through the first chapter which is like packing for a vacation, a routine task that gives way to some of the richest memories.”

A Natural History of the Mojave Desert

Author : Lawrence R. Walker
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816532621
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book A Natural History of the Mojave Desert written by Lawrence R. Walker and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invites readers to explore the smallest and most unique southwestern desert, the beautiful Mojave--Provided by publisher.

Mountain to Desert

Author : Pelle K. Søeborg
Publisher : Kalmbach Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780890246757
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (467 download)

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Download or read book Mountain to Desert written by Pelle K. Søeborg and published by Kalmbach Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build a detailed HO layout with mountain and desert scenes! Model Railroader magazine contributor Pelle K. Søeborg teaches you innovative ways to scratchbuild modern businesses, replicate scenery, paint backdrops, and weather cars in this packed and practical guide. How-to topics include building tunnel entrances, constructing basic terrain with Styrofoam, installing a truss bridge, choosing scenery materials, ballasting track, painting a backdrop, and many more.

Arabian Deserts

Author : H. Stewart Edgell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402039700
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Arabian Deserts written by H. Stewart Edgell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-07-21 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive survey of all the deserts of Arabia, based largely on the author’s 50 years of experience there. The text deals with every kind of desert in the region, from vast sand seas to clay pans and stony plains to volcanic flows. Along with dune types unique to the region the author outlines climatic changes, current ecology and human influence on desertification.

Soviet Deserts and Mountains

Author : George St. George
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soviet Deserts and Mountains written by George St. George and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Desert Oracle

Author : Ken Layne
Publisher : MCD
ISBN 13 : 0374722382
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Desert Oracle written by Ken Layne and published by MCD. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Desert, Marsh and Mountain

Author : Wilfred Thesiger
Publisher : HarperPerennial
ISBN 13 : 9780006548171
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Desert, Marsh and Mountain written by Wilfred Thesiger and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of Wilfred Thesiger's greatest journeys - in the Empty Quarter of Arabia, the marshes of Iraq, the mountains of the Hindu Kush and Kurdistan, and the Yemen - illustrated with Thesiger's own photographs.

Desert Summits

Author : Andy Zdon
Publisher : Spotted Dog Press (CA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desert Summits written by Andy Zdon and published by Spotted Dog Press (CA). This book was released on 2000 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive guide to more than 300 of the most remote and diverse desert mountains in Anza-Borrego, Death Valley, Red Rock, Spring Mountains, Toiyabe Forest, and more! Complete with tips, directions, descriptions, 18 maps, and over 130 photos.

Desert Rims to Mountains High

Author : Richard F. Fleck
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 0871089823
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Desert Rims to Mountains High written by Richard F. Fleck and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2013-09-04 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by his ranger days in Rocky Mountain National Park more than forty five years ago as well as more recent rambles, Richard Fleck has created these descriptive essays that take readers from shimmering desert heat to snowy summits. Fleck has expanded his acclaimed book Breaking Through the Clouds (2004) to create a new book that concentrates on the intermountain American West. This edition includes counterpoint experiences in the desert, canyon lands, and dry prairie far below the summits of the lofty peaks, such as Death Valley, Grand Gulch, Grand Canyon, and the Great Sand Dunes. His literary model was Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire and his intent is to involve readers with an equally potent but different kind of natural reality. Fleck says, “After all, do not mountains rise out of deserts and dry lands? Mountains and surrounding deserts should not be separated.” The mountains are a constant source of spiritual renewal for this author, enabling him to become more aware and whole.

Desert Between the Mountains

Author : Michael S Durham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780762846054
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Desert Between the Mountains written by Michael S Durham and published by . This book was released on 2002-12-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Deserts: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Nick Middleton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199564302
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Deserts: A Very Short Introduction written by Nick Middleton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-26 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface; 1 Desert Climates; 2 Desert Landscapes; 3 The Nature of Deserts; 4 People and Deserts; 5 Deserts Connections.

Encyclopedia of Deserts

Author : Michael A. Mares
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806172290
Total Pages : 695 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Deserts written by Michael A. Mares and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedia of Deserts represents a milestone: it is the first comprehensive reference to the first comprehensive reference to deserts and semideserts of the world. Approximately seven hundred entries treat subjects ranging from desert survival to the way deserts are formed. Topics include biology (birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, invertebrates, plants, bacteria, physiology, evolution), geography, climatology, geology, hydrology, anthropology, and history. The thirty-seven contributors, including volume editor Michael A. Mares, have had extensive careers in deserts research, encompassing all of the world’s arid and semiarid regions. The Encyclopedia opens with a subject list by topic, an organizational guide that helps the reader grasp interrelationships and complexities in desert systems. Each entry concludes with cross-references to other entries in the volume, inviting the reader to embark on a personal expedition into fascinating, previously unknown terrain. In addition a list of important readings facilitates in-depth study of each topic. An exhaustive index permits quick access to places, topics, and taxonomic listings of all plants and animals discussed. More than one hundred photographs, drawings, and maps enhance our appreciation of the remarkable life, landforms, history, and challenges of the world’s arid land.

The War is in the Mountains

Author : Judith Matloff
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9780715651896
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book The War is in the Mountains written by Judith Matloff and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mountainous regions are home to only ten percent of the world's population yet host a strikingly disproportionate share of the world's conflicts. Mountains provide a natural refuge for those who want to elude authority, and their remoteness has allowed archaic practices to persist well into our globalized era. As Judith Matloff shows, the result is a combustible mix we in the lowlands cannot afford to ignore. Traveling to conflict zones across the world, she introduces us to Albanian teenagers involved in ancient blood feuds; Mexican peasants hunting down violent poppy growers; and Jihadists who have resisted the Russian military for decades. At every stop, Matloff reminds us that the drugs, terrorism, and instability cascading down the mountainside affect us all. A work of political travel writing in the vein of Ryszard Kapuscinski and Robert Kaplan, The War is in the Mountains is an indelible portrait of the conflicts that have unexpectedly shaped our world.

No Place for a Puritan

Author : Ruth Nolan
Publisher : Heyday
ISBN 13 : 9781597140980
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book No Place for a Puritan written by Ruth Nolan and published by Heyday. This book was released on 2009 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of literary excerpts inspired by California's fabled deserts includes selections from the writings of local and famous authors including John Steinbeck, Alduous Huxley and Hunter S. Thompson.

The Vegetation of a Desert Mountain Range as Conditioned by Climatic Factors

Author : Forrest Shreve
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Vegetation of a Desert Mountain Range as Conditioned by Climatic Factors written by Forrest Shreve and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New York Times Explorer. Mountains, Deserts and Plains

Author : Barbara Ireland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783836568395
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book The New York Times Explorer. Mountains, Deserts and Plains written by Barbara Ireland and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the flower-filled meadows of the Dolomites to a blanket of stars above Chile's Elqui Valley: set forth and share in the discoveries of the Mountains, Deserts & Plains edition of The New York Times Explorer. The Times writers offer their guidance--from the personal to the practical--on 25 dream destinations, along with a wealth of color...

Discovering the Desert

Author : William G. McGinnies
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816536783
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Discovering the Desert written by William G. McGinnies and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now you can share the experiences of the first U.S. scientists who set about discovering the nature of North American deserts. "This is a fascinating account of how these pioneer ecologists laid the foundations for our modern knowledge of plant adaptation to desert environments. . . . It is well done." (American Scientist)