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At the Edge of the Desert

Author : Basil Lawrence
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1485904641
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (859 download)

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Download or read book At the Edge of the Desert written by Basil Lawrence and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Namibian harbour town of Lüderitz, a liminal space where desert meets ocean, a terrible history is made intimate and personal when filmmaker Henry van Wyk must confront a childhood tragedy that has moulded his life. Having returned to his birthplace in an attempt to get his career back on track, Henry struggles to complete a documentary he is working on. He whiles away his mornings swimming in a nearby tidal pool on Shark Island, and finds himself increasingly drawn to the small town and its romantic possibilities. But the tranquil land hides a bloody history: Shark Island was once the site of a concentration camp, and a law firm is suing the German government for their role in the genocide of Namibia’s indigenous people. When Henry begins to interview the survivors’ descendants, their testimonies compel him to search the desert for a mass grave. At the Edge of the Desert is a meditation on loss, isolation and love, which asks us to consider the implications of telling someone else’s story.

At the Desert's Green Edge

Author : Amadeo M. Rea
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816515400
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book At the Desert's Green Edge written by Amadeo M. Rea and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1997-11 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Akimel O'odham, or Pima Indians, of the northern Sonoran Desert continue to make their home along Arizona's Gila River despite the alarming degradation of their habitat that has occurred over the past century. The oldest living Pimas can recall a lush riparian ecosystem and still recite more than two hundred names for plants in their environment, but they are the last generation who grew up subsisting on cultivated native crops or wild-foraged plants. Ethnobiologist Amadeo M. Rea has written the first complete ethnobotany of the Gila River Pima and has done so from the perspective of the Pimas themselves. At the Desert's Green Edge weaves the Pima view of the plants found in their environment with memories of their own history and culture, creating a monumental testament to their traditions and way of life. Rea first discusses the Piman people, environment, and language, then proceeds to share their botanical knowledge in entries for 240 plants that systematically cover information on economic botany, folk taxonomy, and linguistics. The entries are organized according to Pima life-form categories such as plants growing in water, eaten greens, and planted fruit trees. All are anecdotal, conveying the author's long personal involvement with the Pimas, whether teaching in their schools or learning from them in conversations and interviews. At the Desert's Green Edge is an archive of otherwise unavailable plant lore that will become a benchmark for botanists and anthropologists. Enhanced by more than one hundred brush paintings of plants, it is written to be equally useful to nonspecialists so that the Pimas themselves can turn to it as a resource regarding their former lifeways. More than an encyclopedia of facts, it is the Pimas' own story, a witness to a changing way of life in the Sonoran Desert.

The Edge of the Desert

Author : Ianthe M. Dunbar
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book The Edge of the Desert written by Ianthe M. Dunbar and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filmmaker Henry van Wyk must return home to Namibia after his career falls apart. While trying to put the pieces of his professional life back together, a tragedy he experienced in childhood resurfaces. Near his birthplace lies the site of a former concentration camp. Henry explores the history of the camp and seeks out a mass grave where the victims are rumored to have been buried.

Edge of Taos Desert

Author : Mabel Dodge Luhan
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826325106
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Edge of Taos Desert written by Mabel Dodge Luhan and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1987-04-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1917 Mabel Sterne, patron of the arts and spokeswoman for the New York avant-garde, came to the Southwest seeking a new life. This autobiographical account, long out-of-print, of her first few months in New Mexico is a remarkable description of an Easterner's journey to the American West. It is also a great story of personal and philosophical transformation. The geography of New Mexico and the culture of the Pueblo Indians opened a new world for Mabel. She settled in Taos immediately and lived there the rest of her life. Much of this book describes her growing fascination with Antonio Luhan of Taos Pueblo, whom she subsequently married. Her descriptions of the appeal of primitive New Mexico to a world-weary New Yorker are still fresh and moving. "I finished it in a state of amazed revelation . . . it is so beautifully compact and consistent. . . . It is going to help many another woman and man to 'take life with the talons' and carry it high."--Ansel Adams

A Nurse on the Edge of the Desert

Author : Andrew Cameron
Publisher : Massey University Press
ISBN 13 : 0994141505
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (941 download)

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Download or read book A Nurse on the Edge of the Desert written by Andrew Cameron and published by Massey University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International humanitarian-aid nurse and New Zealander Andrew Cameron is the winner of the coveted Florence Nightingale Medal. In this gripping book he recounts his remarkable life nursing in some of the world's most dangerous and challenging locations, including South Sudan, Yemen, Sierra Leone and Afghanistan. He also details his nursing career in some of Australia's most remote settlements, where anything can be waiting at the end of a long and dusty outback road: a major road accident, a suicide, a broken arm, a stabbing. With mordant humour, wisdom and insight, he recounts the challenges, excitements, and huge rewards of a nursing life.

Marrakech

Author : Massimo Listri
Publisher : Images Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781864701524
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Marrakech written by Massimo Listri and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Displays the styles and comforts of Houses in Morocco are in colour.

Across the Desert

Author : Dusti Bowling
Publisher : Youth Large Print
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Across the Desert written by Dusti Bowling and published by Youth Large Print. This book was released on 2023-12-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One girl sets out on a journey across the treacherous Arizona desert to rescue a young pilot stranded after a plane crash in this gripping story of survival, friendship, and rescue from a bestselling and award-winning author. Twelve-year-old Jolene spends every day she can at the library watching her favorite livestream: The Desert Aviator, where twelve-year-old "Addie Earhart" shares her adventures flying an ultralight plane over the desert. While watching this daring girl fly through the sky, Jolene can dream of what it would be like to fly with her, far away from her own troubled home life where her mother struggles with a narcotic addiction. And Addie, who is grieving the loss of her father, finds solace in her online conversations with Jolene, her biggest--and only--fan. Then, one day, it all goes wrong: Addie's engine abruptly stops, and Jolene watches in helpless horror as the ultralight plummets to the ground and the video goes dark. Jolene knows that Addie won't survive long in the extreme summer desert heat. With no one to turn to for help and armed with only a hand-drawn map and a stolen cell phone, it's up to Jolene to find a way to save the Desert Aviator. Packed with adventure and heart, Across the Desert speaks to the resilience, hope, and strength within each of us. Don't miss Dusti Bowling's new novel, Dust, available for preorder now.

Winter in Taos

Author : Mabel Dodge Luhan
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 1611391377
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Winter in Taos written by Mabel Dodge Luhan and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Winter in Taos" starkly contrasts Luhan's memoirs, published in four volumes and inspired by Marcel Proust's "Remembrances of Things Past." They follow her life through three failed marriages, numerous affairs, and ultimately a feeling of "being nobody in myself," despite years of psychoanalysis and a luxurious lifestyle on two continents among the leading literary, art and intellectual personalities of the day. "Winter in Taos" unfolds in an entirely different pattern, uncluttered with noteworthy names and ornate details. With no chapters dividing the narrative, Luhan describes her simple life in Taos, New Mexico, this "new world" she called it, from season to season, following a thread that spools out from her consciousness as if she's recording her thoughts in a journal. "My pleasure is in being very still and sensing things," she writes, sharing that pleasure with the reader by describing the joys of adobe rooms warmed in winter by aromatic cedar fires; fragrant in spring with flowers; and scented with homegrown fruits and vegetables being preserved and pickled in summer. Having wandered the world, Luhan found her home at last in Taos. "Winter in Taos" celebrates the spiritual connection she established with the "deep living earth" as well as the bonds she forged with Tony Luhan, her "mountain." This moving tribute to a land and the people who eked a life from it reminds readers that in northern New Mexico, where the seasons can be harshly beautiful, one can bathe in the sunshine until "'untied are the knots in the heart,' for there is nothing like the sun for smoothing out all difficulties." Born in 1879 to a wealthy Buffalo family, Mabel Dodge Luhan earned fame for her friendships with American and European artists, writers and intellectuals and for her influential salons held in her Italian villa and Greenwich Village apartments. In 1917, weary of society and wary of a world steeped in war, she set down roots in remote Taos, New Mexico, then publicized the tiny town's inspirational beauty to the world, drawing a steady stream of significant guests to her adobe estate, including artist Georgia O'Keeffe, poet Robinson Jeffers, and authors D.H. Lawrence and Willa Cather. Luhan could be difficult, complex and often cruel, yet she was also generous and supportive, establishing a solid reputation as a patron of the arts and as an author of widely read autobiographies. She died in Taos in 1962.

The Canyon's Edge

Author : Dusti Bowling
Publisher : Youth Large Print
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book The Canyon's Edge written by Dusti Bowling and published by Youth Large Print. This book was released on 2023-12-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hatchet meets Long Way Down in this heartfelt and gripping novel in verse about a young girl's struggle for survival after a climbing trip with her father goes terribly wrong. One year after a random shooting changed their family forever, Nora and her father are exploring a slot canyon deep in the Arizona desert, hoping it will help them find peace. Nora longs for things to go back to normal, like they were when her mother was still alive, while her father keeps them isolated in fear of other people. But when they reach the bottom of the canyon, the unthinkable happens: A flash flood rips across their path, sweeping away Nora's father and all of their supplies. Suddenly, Nora finds herself lost and alone in the desert, facing dehydration, venomous scorpions, deadly snakes, and, worst of all, the Beast who has terrorized her dreams for the past year. If Nora is going to save herself and her father, she must conquer her fears, defeat the Beast, and find the courage to live her new life. Don't miss Dusti Bowling's new novel, Dust, available for preorder now.

Desert Cabal

Author : Amy Irvine
Publisher : Torrey House Press
ISBN 13 : 1937226964
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Desert Cabal written by Amy Irvine and published by Torrey House Press. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Amy Irvine implores us to trade in our solitude for solidarity, to recognize ourselves in each other and in the places we love, so that we might come together to save them." —PAM HOUSTON As Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness turns fifty, its iconic author, who has inspired generations of rebel-rousing advocacy on behalf of the American West, is due for a tribute as well as a talking to. In Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness, Amy Irvine admires the man who influenced her life and work while challenging all that is dated—offensive, even—between the covers of Abbey’s environmental classic. From Abbey’s quiet notion of solitude to Irvine’s roaring cabal, the desert just got hotter, and its defenders more nuanced and numerous.

The Suppressed Memoirs of Mabel Dodge Luhan

Author : Lois Palken Rudnick
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826351212
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book The Suppressed Memoirs of Mabel Dodge Luhan written by Lois Palken Rudnick and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2012-07-15 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally known as a writer, hostess, and patron of the arts of the twentieth century, Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879–1962) is not known for her experiences with venereal disease, unmentioned in her four-volume published memoir. Making the suppressed portions of Luhan’s memoirs available for the first time, well-known biographer and cultural critic Lois Rudnick examines Luhan’s life through the lenses of venereal disease, psychoanalysis, and sexology. She shows us a mover and shaker of the modern world whose struggles with identity, sexuality, and manic depression speak to the lives of many women of her era. Restricted at the behest of her family until the year 2000, Rudnick’s edition of these remarkable documents represents the culmination of more than thirty-five years of study of Luhan’s life, writings, lovers, friends, and Luhan’s social and cultural milieus in Italy, New York, and New Mexico. They open up new pathways to understanding late Victorian and early modern American and European cultures in the person of a complex woman who led a life filled with immense passion and pain.

Living in Deserts

Author : Tea Benduhn
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN 13 : 0836883411
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Living in Deserts written by Tea Benduhn and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2007-07-07 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes desert conditions, how people can live in deserts, the lives of traditional desert peoples, and the effects of the modern world on deserts.

There and Back

Author : Jimmy Chin
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
ISBN 13 : 1984859501
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book There and Back written by Jimmy Chin and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Academy Award–winning director of Free Solo and National Geographic photographer presents the first collection of his iconic adventure photography, featuring some of the greatest moments of the most accomplished climbers and outdoor athletes in the world, and including more than 200 extraordinary photographs. “An extraordinary work of art.”—Jon Krakauer Filmmaker, photographer, and world-class mountaineer Jimmy Chin goes where few can follow to capture stunning images in death-defying situations. There and Back draws from his breathtaking portfolio of photographs, captured over twenty years during cutting-edge expeditions on all seven continents—from skiing Mount Everest, to an unsupported traverse of Tibet's Chang Tang Plateau on foot, to first ascents in Chad’s Ennedi Desert and Antarctica’s Queen Maud Land. Along the way, Chin shares behind-the-scenes details about how he captured such astounding images in impossible conditions, and tells the stories of the legendary adventurers and remarkable athletes he has photographed, including Alex Honnold, the star of his Academy Award–winning documentary film Free Solo; ski mountaineer Kit DesLauriers; snowboarder Travis Rice; and mountaineers Conrad Anker and Yvon Chouinard. These larger-than-life images, coupled with stories of outsized drive and passion, of impossible goals with life or death stakes, of partnerships forged through incredible hardship, are sure to inspire wonder and awe.

Desert Notebooks

Author : Ben Ehrenreich
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640093540
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Desert Notebooks written by Ben Ehrenreich and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, this New York Times Notable Book presents a stunning reckoning with our current moment and with the literal and figurative end of time. Desert Notebooks examines how the unprecedented pace of destruction to our environment and an increasingly unstable geopolitical landscape have led us to the brink of a calamity greater than any humankind has confronted before. As inhabitants of the Anthropocene, what might some of our own histories tell us about how to confront apocalypse? And how might the geologies and ecologies of desert spaces inform how we see and act toward time—the pasts we have erased and paved over, this anxious present, the future we have no choice but to build? Ehrenreich draws on the stark grandeur of the desert to ask how we might reckon with the uncertainty that surrounds us and fight off the crises that have already begun. In the canyons and oases of the Mojave and in Las Vegas’s neon apocalypse, Ehrenreich finds beauty, and even hope, surging up in the most unlikely places, from the most barren rocks, and the apparent emptiness of the sky. Desert Notebooks is a vital and necessary chronicle of our past and our present—unflinching, urgent—yet timeless and profound.

Desert Farmers at the River's Edge

Author : John P. Andrews
Publisher : City of Phoenix Parks Recreation and Library Department Pueblo Gr
ISBN 13 : 9781882572304
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (723 download)

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Download or read book Desert Farmers at the River's Edge written by John P. Andrews and published by City of Phoenix Parks Recreation and Library Department Pueblo Gr. This book was released on 2000 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Edge of the Rain

Author : Beverley Harper
Publisher : Pan Australia
ISBN 13 : 1742626874
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Edge of the Rain written by Beverley Harper and published by Pan Australia. This book was released on 1998-02-01 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunger ached in her belly... the lioness slid forward as close as she dared. The little boy seconds away from death was two, maybe three years old. He was lost in the heat-soaked sand that was the Kalahari desert. Toddler Alex Theron is miraculously rescued by a passing clan of Kalahari Bushmen. Over the ensuing years, the desert draws him back, for it hides a beautiful secret... diamonds. But nothing comes easily from within this turbulent continent and before Alex can ever hope to realise his dreams he will lost his mind to love and fight a bitter enemy who will stop at nothing to destroy him.

One Day in the Desert

Author : Jean Craighead George
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780606097123
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (971 download)

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Download or read book One Day in the Desert written by Jean Craighead George and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: æA wounded mountain lion moves from his mountain habitat to a Papago Indian hut in Arizona's Sonoran desert during a record-breaking July day. All creation adapts to the blistering heat until a cloudburst causes a flash flood. With a measured yet vivid style, this introduction to desert ecology makes a memorable impact." -SLJ.