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Night & Horses & The Desert

Author : Robert Irwin
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1590209141
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Night & Horses & The Desert written by Robert Irwin and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Arabic literature is “a joy to read. . . . a journey through eleven centuries of a lost world, with a surprise on almost every page” (Financial Times). Spanning the fifth to the sixteenth centuries, from Afghanistan to Spain, Night & Horses & The Desert includes translated extracts from all the major classics in an invaluable introduction to the subject of classical Arabic literature. Robert Irwin has selected a wide range of poetry and prose in translation, from the most important and typical texts to the very obscure. Alongside the extracts, Irwin’s copious commentary and notes provide an explanatory history of the subject. What were the various genres and to what extent were they constrained by rules? What were the canons of traditional Arabic literary criticism? How were Arabic prose and poetry recited and written down? Irwin explores the literary environments of the desert, salon, mosque, and bookshop and provides brief biographies of the caliphs, princesses, warriors, scribes, dandies, and mystics who created such a rich and diverse literary culture. Night & Horses & The Desert gives western readers a unique taste of the sheer vitality and depth of the medieval Arab past. “Superb . . . . a revelation.” —The Washington Post “[A] treasure-house of a book. . . . Unequaled for scholarship and entertainment.” —The Independent

Night and Horses and the Desert

Author : Robert Irwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Night and Horses and the Desert written by Robert Irwin and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Desert Songs of the Night

Author : Suheil Bushrui
Publisher : Saqi
ISBN 13 : 0863561853
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (635 download)

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Download or read book Desert Songs of the Night written by Suheil Bushrui and published by Saqi. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique and extraordinary collection, Desert Songs of the Night presents some of the finest poetry and prose by Arab writers, from the Arab East to Andalusia, over the last 1,500 years. From the mystical imagery of the Qur'an and the colourful stories of The Thousand and One Nights, to the powerful verses of longing of Mahmoud Darwish and Nazik al-Mala'ika, this captivating collection includes translated excerpts of works by the major authors of the period, as well as by lesser known writers of equal significance. Desert Songs of the Night showcases the vibrant and distinctive literary heritage of the Arabs. Beautifully produced, this is the ideal book for lovers of world literature and for those who seek an acquaintance with gems of Arab thought and expression. 'Desert Songs of the Night is a wonderful introduction to fifteen centuries of a literature still largely unknown in the West, without which much of our civilizations would not have developed as they have, from the rediscovery of Aristotle by Arab commentators to the lyric poetry of Europe, from the magical world of the Arabian Nights to the modern revolutionary poets of Palestine. Absolutely essential reading for our troubled times.' Alberto Manguel 'At a time when the world is obsessing about violence and bloodletting in the Arab world, this remarkable anthology, which spans 1,500 years of Arab literary genius, is a stark reminder of the untold story we keep missing about the region.' Hanan al-Shaykh

The Penguin Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature

Author : Robert Irwin
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141441887
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (414 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature written by Robert Irwin and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-05-25 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the fifth century to the sixteenth, and ranging from Afghanistan to Spain, this collection provides an insight into the vitality of Classical Arabic literature. It explores such traditional themes as lovesick yearning and fated doom, and considers subjects as the etiquette of falling in love with slave-girls and the terrors of the sea.

The Horses of the Sahara

Author : Eugène Daumas
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 029273381X
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Horses of the Sahara written by Eugène Daumas and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arabs created one of the world's finest breeds of saddle horses, the Arabian, and they have long possessed an immense store of knowledge regarding the care, training, and breeding of this splendid horse. In the nineteenth century, General Melchior Joseph Eugene Daumas had access to their knowledge even though, as he pointed out, "it requires a great deal of patience and tact for a Christian to obtain from the Mohammedans even the most insignificant of details . . ." General Daumas was, because of his unique relationship with the Arabs, probably the first European to produce a comprehensive study of Arabian horses. And to add even greater value to The Horses of the Sahara, he was able to secure for the ninth edition, here translated, extended commentaries on all aspects of Arabian horsemanship by the Emir Abd-el-Kadar, one of the most important nineteenth-century Arab leaders and certainly one of the foremost authorities on the subject. The Horses of the Sahara will be of interest not only to equestrians but also to historians and other scholars interested in the customs of the North African desert tribes and in the complex backgrounds of European–North African relations. General Daumas took part in the conquest of Algeria by France, so distinguishing himself that he was named Director of the Bureau of Algerian Affairs in the French Ministry of War. During the campaigns and the occupation that followed, he studied and attempted to understand the native peoples, with an objectivity and sympathy unusual among the colonialists of the period. His book provides fascinating sidelights on many aspects of Arab life, including customs, superstitions, religion, and family life. Sheila M. Ohlendorf was uniquely suited to translate The Horses of the Sahara. An excellent rider herself, thoroughly experienced with the animals and the techniques being discussed, she also spoke fluent French, having received her B.A. degree in languages from Texas Western University (now the University of Texas at El Paso). As curator of the Hall of the Horsemen, the large collection at the University of Texas at Austin, she had access to a wide variety of supplementary authorities, which enriched both her translation and the notes that accompany the book.

The Horses of the Sahara and the Manners of the Desert

Author : Eugène Daumas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Horses of the Sahara and the Manners of the Desert written by Eugène Daumas and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cries in the Desert

Author : John Glatt
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429904712
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Cries in the Desert written by John Glatt and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fall of 1999, a twenty-two-year-old woman was discovered naked and bleeding on the streets of a small New Mexico town south of Albuquerque. She was chained to a padlocked metal collar. The tale she told authorties--of being beaten, raped, and tortured with electric shock--was unthinkable. Until she led them to 59-year-old David Ray Parker, his 39-year-old financee Cindy Hendy--and the lakeside trailer they called their "toy box". What the FBI uncovered was unprecedented in the annals of serial crime: restraining devices, elaborate implements of torture, books on human anatomy, medical equipment, scalpels, and a gynecologist's examination table. But these horrors were only part of the shocking story that would unfold in a stunning trial... Cries in the Desert is the true story of "The Toy Box Killer"--a shocking story of torture and murder in the New Mexico desert.

The horses of the Sahara, and the manners of the desert, with comm. by the emir Abd-el-Kader, tr. by J. Hutton

Author : Melchior Joseph Eugène Daumas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The horses of the Sahara, and the manners of the desert, with comm. by the emir Abd-el-Kader, tr. by J. Hutton written by Melchior Joseph Eugène Daumas and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gobi

Author : John Man
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300076097
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Gobi written by John Man and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In intelligent, jargon-free prose, the author takes readers on a colorful tour of the Gobi Desert, from its natural wonders to its conflicts with society. Illustrations.

Frontiers of Islamic Art and Architecture

Author : Gülru Neci̇poğlu
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004173277
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Frontiers of Islamic Art and Architecture written by Gülru Neci̇poğlu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Muqarnas" is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In "Muqarnas" articles are being published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.

Rebel of the Sands

Author : Alwyn Hamilton
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698410424
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book Rebel of the Sands written by Alwyn Hamilton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling novel by the Goodreads Choice Awards Best Debut Author of 2016, published in 15 countries! Mortals rule the desert nation of Miraji, but mythical beasts still roam the wild and remote areas, and rumor has it that somewhere, djinn still perform their magic. For humans, it’s an unforgiving place, especially if you’re poor, orphaned, or female. Amani Al’Hiza is all three. She’s a gifted gunslinger with perfect aim, but she can’t shoot her way out of Dustwalk, the back-country town where she’s destined to wind up wed or dead. Then she meets Jin, a rakish foreigner, in a shooting contest, and sees him as the perfect escape route. But though she’s spent years dreaming of leaving Dustwalk, she never imagined she’d gallop away on mythical horse—or that it would take a foreign fugitive to show her the heart of the desert she thought she knew. This startlingly original Middle-East-meets-Wild-West fantasy reveals what happens when a dream deferred explodes—in the fires of rebellion, of romantic passion, and the all-consuming inferno of a girl finally embracing her power.

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.

Lost to the Desert Warrior

Author : Sarah Morgan
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0373131771
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (731 download)

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Download or read book Lost to the Desert Warrior written by Sarah Morgan and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Walking into the lion's den unprotected, Princess?" For Layla, princess of Tazkhan, her arranged marriage means one thing—a lifetime of cruelty and captivity. Such an unendurable prospect drives her to throw herself at the mercy of Sheikh Raz Al Zahki—her family's greatest enemy! Raz demands one thing in return for the safe haven Layla is seeking—this brooding desert king wants to make her his queen! Her freedom might be secured, but now her heart is at risk, for soon she's lost to the scorching heat of their marriage bed. However, it will take more than fire to thaw her guarded husband….

Danger in the Desert

Author : Roger Cohen
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402757068
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Danger in the Desert written by Roger Cohen and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the journeys of Roy Chapman Andrews who, in the early twentieth-century, led countless expeditions for the American Museum of Natural History in search of dinosaur fossils, facing dangers such as pythons, wild dogs, marauding bandits, sandstorms, and corrupt officials.

Wadduda of the Desert

Author : Jean Ivey
Publisher : Sharon Rose Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780965889131
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Wadduda of the Desert written by Jean Ivey and published by Sharon Rose Pub. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Saied is taken from his African village by a Bedouin sheik to care for the orphaned foal of his beloved war mare and Saied's life and that of the horse become forever connected.

If I Ran the Horse Show

Author : Bonnie Worth
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0593126637
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book If I Ran the Horse Show written by Bonnie Worth and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calling all young equestrians and Cat (in the Hat) fanciers! In this latest installment of the Cat in the Hat's Learning Library, the Cat introduces Sally and Nick—and beginning readers—to all things horsey. At his Super-Tremendous-Stupendous Horse Show, the Cat explains how horses and people have worked together since ancient times; the difference between fillies, foals, yearlings, mares, colts, dams, sires, and stallions; horse anatomy from nose to tail; the work of a farrier, Western vs English riding; and much, much more—including fun facts about 13 of the most popular horse breeds! Fans of the new PBS Kids preschool science show the Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! (which is based on The Cat in the Hat's Learning Library) will whinny with glee over this new addition to the series!

The Desert Between Us

Author : Phyllis Barber
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 1948908573
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book The Desert Between Us written by Phyllis Barber and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 Reading the West Book Awards, Longlist for Fiction 2020 Association for Morman Letters Finalist, Fiction The Desert Between Us is a sweeping, multi-layered novel based on the U.S. government’s decision to open more routes to California during the Gold Rush. To help navigate this waterless, largely unexplored territory, the War Department imported seventy-five camels from the Middle East to help traverse the brutal terrain that was murderous on other livestock. Geoffrey Scott, one of the roadbuilders, decides to venture north to discover new opportunities in the opening of the American West when he—and the camels—are no longer needed. Geoffrey arrives in St. Thomas, Nevada, a polygamous settlement caught up in territorial fights over boundaries and new taxation. There, he falls in love with Sophia Hughes, a hatmaker obsessed with beauty and the third wife of a polygamist. Geoffrey believes Sophia wants to be free of polygamy and go away with him to a better life, but Sophia’s motivations are not so easily understood. She had become committed to Mormon beliefs in England and had moved to Utah Territory to assuage her spiritual needs. The death of Sophia’s child and her illicit relationship with Geoffrey generate a complex nexus where her new love for Geoffrey competes with societal expectations and a rugged West seeking domesticity. When faced with the opportunity to move away from her polygamist husband and her tumultuous life in St. Thomas, Sophia becomes tormented by a life-changing decision she must face alone.