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Quest For The Kasbah

Author : Richard Bangs
Publisher : Open Road
ISBN 13 : 9781593601294
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Quest For The Kasbah written by Richard Bangs and published by Open Road. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this companion book to the PBS special Morocco: Quest for the Kasbah, renowned explorer and Adventures with Purpose host Richard Bangs explores the concept of the Kasbah—a fortress, a safe haven, and a place to exchange ideas with people from many different backgrounds. Bangs takes us on an insightful journey to beautiful Morocco, sharing his stories, adventures and reflections on why he felt "knocked over with a feeling of being a part of something remarkable and deeply human." Along the way, readers will discover what the modern Kasbah might represent for all of us in today’s fast-paced world: "a place secure in identity and thus unthreatened by those of different creed or kin." Foreword by Peter Greenberg of NBC's Today Show, and featuring an 8-page color photo insert. “A remarkable journey...there are life lessons to be learned here.” – Peter Greenberg, NBC Today Show “If ‘adventure’ isn’t Richard Bangs’ middle name, it should be.” – Rudy Maxa, Host of PBS’ Smart Travels “Richard Bangs is Indiana Jones with a conscience.” – Rich Barton, founder of Expedia.com “Richard Bangs’ quests have evolved from haunting journeys down unknown rivers to new explorations of very old wisdom that just might help all of us with the challenges we are about to encounter.” – Alex Chadwick, NPR

Up the Kasbah

Author : Tony Walton
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0956609112
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Up the Kasbah written by Tony Walton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting with Oscar Wilde and André Gide in the 1890's, for the next 100 years North Africa was to be a favourite destination for gay men seeking a mixture of sea, sand, sunshine and maybe something else. This book relates the adventures and antics of those gay travellers and expats in the three countries of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia between 1890 and 1990. Much of it is based on their own words given to us in interviews. Many of the destinations mentioned here along the north African coast were visited by either Wilde, Gide or Genet. But it is Tangier where we spend the most time, since that city was for over fifty years the Mecca of gay travellers. So as you read, imagine yourself up in the Kasbah of each of the old cities, looking down and seeing what those gays are doing down in the main part of the town. We are sure you will find something of interest.

The Lighthearted Quest

Author : Ann Bridge
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448201802
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book The Lighthearted Quest written by Ann Bridge and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Julia Probyn's cousin and childhood friend Colin cuts off all contact with his family, it is down to Julia to find him. Setting sail for Morocco – the last place he was seen – and using her occupation as a journalist as a cover, Julia is ready for a fairly lighthearted quest. But Julia wasn't counting on the level of secrecy surrounding her cousin's disappearance. With the British consulate offering little help, Julia must use her charm and tenacity to follow the clues and unravel the mystery left in Colin's wake. Book one of The Julia Probyn Mysteries, The Lighthearted Quest has Ann Bridge's trademark blend of humour and adventure which transports us to exotic places, but also throws a good deal of light on the explosive political issues that French Morocco encountered in the 50s. 'Here's an answer for the multitude of readers demanding a good story, adventure, mystery [and] romance' -Kirkus

Tastes of the Kasbah

Author : Patricia Crocker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780973691313
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (913 download)

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Download or read book Tastes of the Kasbah written by Patricia Crocker and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

National Geographic Traveler

Author : Carole French
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426207069
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book National Geographic Traveler written by Carole French and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A travel guide to Morocco that provides maps, itineraries, walking and driving tours, recommended sites and activities, and other resources.

Bird of Paradise

Author : Raquel Cepeda
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451635885
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Bird of Paradise written by Raquel Cepeda and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2009, Raquel Cepeda embarked on an exploration of her genealogy using ancestral DNA testing to uncover the truth about her family and the tapestry of races and ethnicities that came together in an ambiguous mix in her features, resulting in “a beautiful story of reconciliation and redemption” (Huffington Post) with her identity and what it means to be Latina. Digging through memories long buried, Cepeda journeyed not only into her ancestry but also into her own history. Born in Harlem to Dominican parents, she was sent to live with her maternal grandparents in the Paraíso (Paradise) district in Santo Domingo while still a baby. It proved to be an idyllic reprieve in her otherwise fraught childhood. Paraíso came to mean family, home, belonging. When Cepeda returned to the US, she discovered her family constellation had changed. Her mother had a new, abusive boyfriend, who relocated the family to San Francisco. When that relationship fell apart, Cepeda found herself back in New York City with her father and European stepmother: attending tennis lessons and Catholic schools; fighting vicious battles with her father, who discouraged her from expressing the Dominican part of her hyphenated identity; and immersed in the ’80s hip-hop culture of uptown Manhattan. It was in these streets, through the prism of hip-hop and the sometimes loving embrace of her community, that Cepeda constructed her own identity. Years later, when Cepeda had become a successful journalist and documentary filmmaker, the strands of her DNA would take her further, across the globe and into history. Who were her ancestors? How did they—and she—become Latina? Her journey, as the most unforgettable ones often do, would lead her to places she hadn’t expected to go. With a vibrant lyrical prose and fierce honesty, Cepeda parses concepts of race, identity, and ancestral DNA among Latinos by using her own Dominican-American story as one example, and in the process arrives at some sort of peace with her father.

Extreme Fear

Author : Jeff Wise
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 0230101801
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Extreme Fear written by Jeff Wise and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2009-12-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the phrase "fight or flight" was coined in the 1920s, the common understanding has been that the mind respond to danger in one of two ways - either fleeing in blind panic, or fighting through it. But as scientists unlock the secrets of the human brain, a more complex understanding of the fear response has emerged. It turns out that the ancient brain circuitry wired to process fear is also intricately tied to our ability to master new skills, and that the icy sensation of terror can actually enhance both our physical and our mental performance. Veteran science journalist Jeff Wise, who writes the "I'll Try Anything" column for Popular Mechanics, journeys into the heart of the primal force to find its hidden roots: Where does panic come from? How is it that some people can perform masterfully under pressure? How can we live a more courageous life? Reporting from the front lines of science, Wise takes us into labs where scientists are learning how we make decisions when confronted with physical peril, how time is perceived when the mind is on high alert, and how willpower succeeds or fails in controlling fear. Along the way, he illuminates the science with riveting stories of true-life danger and survival. We watch a woman defend herself from a mountain lion attack in a remote canyon; we witness couple desperately fighting to beat back an encircling wildfire; we see a pilot struggle to maintain control of his plane as its wing begins to detach. Full of amazing characters and cutting-edge science, Extreme Fear is an original and absorbing look at how we can raise the limits of human potential.

The Quest for Africa

Author : Heinrich Schiffers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Quest for Africa written by Heinrich Schiffers and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Radical Faces of Godard and Bertolucci

Author : Yosefa Loshitzky
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814324462
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (244 download)

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Download or read book The Radical Faces of Godard and Bertolucci written by Yosefa Loshitzky and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the radical 1960s through the neo-conservative 1980s and into the early 1990s, the provocative cinematic careers of French director Jean-Luc Godard and Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci have captured the imagination of filmgoers and critics alike. Although their films differ greatly - Godard produces highly cerebral and theoretical works while Bertolucci creates films with more spectacle and emotionalism - their careers have sparked lively discussion and debate, mostly centred around the notion of an Oedipal struggle between them.

Two Questers in the Twentieth-century North Africa

Author : Imen Ayari Cozzo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443816647
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Two Questers in the Twentieth-century North Africa written by Imen Ayari Cozzo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a unique exploration of the work of Paul Bowles and Ibrahim Alkoni, and reveals timely insights into the relationship between the West and the Orient, showing that they both challenge and extend existing scholarship on this subject. It builds on a sound theoretical platform which serves as a solid foundation for the analysis of the overarching theme. Theories of place, representation, Orientalism and post-colonialism are discussed in depth and are linked to the deconstruction and analysis of the selected literary texts, helping the reader understand the various quests and motivations of the protagonists of the works of Bowles and Alkoni. The first part of the book looks into the work of Bowles, and is based on the fact that many of the author’s texts revolve around the theme of encounters between Western and Eastern cultures. It adopts a specific focus on the North African space, which is depicted from a number of different points of view, including native, French, English and American perspectives. The second section discusses the work of the Libyan author Ibrahim Alkoni as a quester for a Mythical Identity. It introduces the reader to the significance of the desert in both classical and modern Arabic literature and its place in the Arabic cultural imaginary. This work is highly original both in its approach and subject matter, and, as such, it constitutes a valuable contribution to the study of comparative literature, Arabic literature, and postcolonial magical realist literature. It offers many original insights into this little studied field, demonstrating a successful venture into less-trodden terrain.

A Soldier of the Legion

Author : C. N. Williamson
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book A Soldier of the Legion written by C. N. Williamson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Soldier of the Legion by C.M. Williamson is about a determined soldier who must fight hard to protect the ones he loves. Excerpt: "It was the great ball of the season at Fort Ellsworth. For a special reason it had begun unusually late; but, though the eighth dance was on, the great event of the evening had not happened yet. Until that should happen, the rest, charming though it might be, was a mere curtain-raiser to keep men amused before the first act of the play. The band of the —th was playing the "Merry Widow" waltz, still, a favorite at the fort, and only one of the officers was not dancing. All the others—young, middle-aged, and even elderly—were gliding more or less gracefully, more or less happily, over the waxed floor of the big, white-walled, flag-draped hall where Fort Ellsworth had its concerts, theatricals, small hops, and big balls."

The Scapegoat

Author : Hall Sir Caine
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Scapegoat written by Hall Sir Caine and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fictional depiction of Morocco in the last years of Sultan Abd er-Rahman. The ashes of that tyrant are cold, and his grandson sits in his place, but men who earned his displeasure linger yet in his noisome dungeons, and women who won his embraces are starving at this hour in the prison palaces in which he immured them. His reign is a story of yesterday; he is gone, he is forgotten; no man so meek and none so mean but he might spit upon his tomb. Yet the evil work which he did in his evil time is done today, if not by his grandson, then in his grandson's name—the degradation of man's honor, the cruel wrong of woman's, the shame of base usury, and the iniquity of justice that may be bought! Of such corruption this story will tell, for it is a tale of tyranny that is every day repeated, a voice of suffering going up hourly to the powers of the world, calling on them to forget the secret hopes and petty jealousies whereof Morocco is a cause, to think no more of any scramble for territory when the fated day of that doomed land has come, and only to look to it and see that he who fills the throne of Abd er-Rahman shall be the last to sit there.

Lonely Planet Morocco

Author : Lonely Planet
Publisher : Lonely Planet
ISBN 13 : 1837582823
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Lonely Planet Morocco written by Lonely Planet and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Scapegoat

Author : Hall Caine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Scapegoat written by Hall Caine and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cultural Encounters

Author : Elizabeth Hallam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136289992
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Encounters written by Elizabeth Hallam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Encounters examines how 'otherness' has been constituted, communicated and transformed in cultural representation. Covering a diverse range of media including film, TV, advertisements, video, photographs, painting, novels, poetry, newspapers and material objects, the contributors, who include Ludmilla Jordanova and Ivan Karp, explore the cultural politics of Europe's encounters with Brazil, India, Israel, Australia and Africa, examining the ways in which visual and textual art forms operate in their treatment of cultural difference.

The Love Quest

Author : Anne Cumming
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Love Quest written by Anne Cumming and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this extraordinary volume of autobiography, the author of The Love Habit looks back on her travels and love affairs between the years 1952 and 1965. From a Parisian orgy attended by two Very Important Persons, to a passionate romance with a ruthless Tunisian gangster, she recounts her exotic adventures in colorful detail and with disarming candor. She also writes perceptively about growing older and about her relationships with her children, husbands, lovers, and friends, including the writer and artist Brion Gysin, the only man she loved but never slept with. Witty, wise, and sensual, this is the compelling story of a remarkable woman.

The English Catalogue of Books [annual]

Author : Sampson Low
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The English Catalogue of Books [annual] written by Sampson Low and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.