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Author : Ahmed Mohammed Hassanein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Lost Oases written by Ahmed Mohammed Hassanein and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aḥmad Muḥammad Ḥasanayn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789774249808
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (498 download)
Download or read book The Lost Oases written by Aḥmad Muḥammad Ḥasanayn and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great classics of desert exploration back in print
Author : A. Hassanein Bey
Publisher : Long Riders Guild Press
ISBN 13 : 9781590481462
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)
Download or read book The Lost Oases written by A. Hassanein Bey and published by Long Riders Guild Press. This book was released on 2006-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite their dangerous appeal, there are a few desolate places in the world that call to a man, daring him to return to their deadly beauty again and again. The world s last unexplored desert held such an allure for the remarkable author of this book. At the dawning of the 20th century the vast desert of Libya remained one of last unexplored places on Earth. Because travel was restricted by the distance camels could trek between wells, vast portions of the Libyan interior were still blank spots on the map. Enter Sir Ahmed Mohammed Hassanein, the dashing Egyptian diplomat turned explorer. Having befriended the Muslim leaders of the elusive Senussi Brotherhood who controlled the deserts further on, Hassanein became aware of rumours of a lost oasis which lay even deeper in the desert. In 1923 the explorer led a small caravan on a remarkable seven month journey across the centre of Libya. More than two thousand gruelling miles later he emerged with marvellous tales of having not only located the lost oasis of Uweinat, but having also discovered a cave which contained ten-thousand-year-old drawings. Attributed to djinns, these Paleolithic images depicted a flourishing, but now extinct, pastoral world inhabited by giraffes, ostriches, gazelles, even cows, but no camels. Yet the most startling image depicted human beings swimming in what had become a forbidding desert. Amply illustrated with photographs taken by the author, this is a timeless account of a hazardous journey across the great sand sea.
Author : Saul Kelly
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786747242
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book The Lost Oasis written by Saul Kelly and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-20 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lost Oasis tells the true story behind The English Patient. An extraordinary episode in World War II, it describes the Zerzura Club, a group of desert explorers and adventurers who indulged in desert travel by early-model-motor cars and airplanes, and who searched for lost desert oases and ancient cities of vanished civilizations. In reality, they were mapping the desert for military reasons and espionage. The club's members came from countries that soon would be enemies: England and the Allied Forces v. Italy and Germany. When war erupted in 1939, Ralph Bagnold founded the British Long Range Desert Group to spy on and disrupt Rommel's advance on Cairo, while a fellow club member, Hungarian Count Almasy, succeeded in placing German spies there. Ultimately, the British prevailed. Saul Kelly's riveting history draws on interviews with survivors and previously unknown documentary material in England, Italy, Germany, Hungary, and Egypt. His book reads like a thriller -- with one key difference: it's all true.
Author : Robert Twigger
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0297863878
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (978 download)
Download or read book Lost Oasis written by Robert Twigger and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author of ANGRY WHITE PYJAMAS, BIG SNAKE and VOYAGEUR enters into the desert in search of a lost oasis 'Last night my son wanted to appease me because of some annoyance he had caused. "Show me your desert things," he said, "show me your crystals and stones." However tired and grumpy I might be, he knew how to revive me. I unwrapped everything from its newspaper roll. The chipped flint knives, the silica glass arrowheads, ancient porous pottery shards I'd found in the Gilf, fossils, the jawbone of a gazelle, palm nuts so desiccated they were like stone . . .' Robert Twigger's latest journey is in search of paradise: a desert adventure in the footsteps of seasoned explorers such as Theodore Almasy (the Inspiration for THE ENGLISH PATIENT) who tried to locate the lost oasis of Zezura, reportedly home to hoards of treasure, flocks of birds and a lush, verdant valley. The Egyptian Sahara is one of the most arid and hostile environments on earth. But it is also a wonder of desolate beauty, where in the ultra-clear light of the desert you can see for miles. Armed with plenty of water and a homemade wooden trolley (his Lada being too heavy for the sand), Twigger embarks on a desert trip ilke no other . . .
Author : Elza Ivan Edwards
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Lost Oases Along the Carrizo written by Elza Ivan Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the long-vanished palm oases that flourished along the Carrizo Corridor of the Colorado Desert and served as waystops for Westward travellers.
Author : Sandra Postel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134161581
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book The Last Oasis written by Sandra Postel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades now we have wasted and mismanaged the world?s water supplies. Today, 27 countries are short of water, a quarter of the world?s population has no safe water, 46 per cent have no proper sanitation and each year four million children die of water-borne diseases. As most of the world?s major river systems cross several national boundaries, the scope disputes and the threat to international security is becoming more and more real. In The Last Oasis, Sandra Postel examines the economic, ecological and political factors affecting fresh water supply. She confronts the issues of mismanagement and profligacy and analyses and dangers of confrontation, both between nations and between rural and urban users. She also emphasises that the technology and know-how for effective water husbandry does exist. With methods already in use, farmers could cut their demand for water by 40-90 per cent, and cities by one-third, without sacrificing economic output or quality of life. Investing in water efficiency, recycling and conservation help meet rising demands and stave off disaster. But the priority is a common recognition of the gravity of the position, and with that a widespread push for institutions to manage sustainable use of water.
Author : Ahmed Mohammed Hassanein Bey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (229 download)
Download or read book The Lost Oases written by Ahmed Mohammed Hassanein Bey and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Welland
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780233892
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book The Desert written by Michael Welland and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From endless sand dunes and prickly cacti to shimmering mirages and green oases, deserts evoke contradictory images in us. They are lands of desolation, but also of romance, of blistering Mojave heat and biting Gobi cold. Covering a quarter of the earth’s land mass and providing a home to half a billion people, they are both a physical reality and landscapes of the mind. The idea of the desert has long captured Western imagination, put on display in films and literature, but these portrayals often fail to capture the true scope and diversity of the people living there. Bridging the scientific and cultural gaps between perception and reality, The Desert celebrates our fascination with these arid lands and their inhabitants, as well as their importance both throughout history and in the world today. Covering an immense geographical range, Michael Welland wanders from the Sahara to the Atacama, depicting the often bizarre adaptations of plants and animals to these hostile environments. He also looks at these seemingly infertile landscapes in the context of their place in history—as the birthplaces not only of critical evolutionary adaptations, civilizations, and social progress, but also of ideologies. Telling the stories of the diverse peoples who call the desert home, he describes how people have survived there, their contributions to agricultural development, and their emphasis on water and its scarcity. He also delves into the allure of deserts and how they have been used in literature and film and their influence on fashion, art, and architecture. As Welland reveals, deserts may be difficult to define, but they play an active role in the evolution of our global climate and society at large, and their future is of the utmost importance. Entertaining, informative, and surprising, The Desert is an intriguing new look at these seemingly harsh and inhospitable landscapes.
Author : Saul Kelly
Publisher : John Murray Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780719561672
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (616 download)
Download or read book The Hunt for Zerzura written by Saul Kelly and published by John Murray Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the true story behind The English Patient, one of the least known and most extraordinary episodes of World War II. In the 1930s, the Zerzura Club (named after a lost oasis in the Libyan desert) met once a year for dinner at the Cafe Royal in London. Ostensibly, its members were cosmopolitan adventurers indulging a craze for desert travel by motor car and aeroplane, and searching for the lost oases and ancient cities of a vanished civilization. In reality they were mapping the desert for military reasons, marking vital wells and checking terrain. The Club's members were drawn from countries that would soon be enemies, and fellowship masked a vicious rivalry. Mussolini hoped to make Egypt the centrepiece of a new Italian empire, but the British - for whom the Suez Canal was strategically vital - were determined to hold onto that country. When war broke out in 1939, Ralph Bagnold founded the Long Range Desert Group to spy on and disrupt the Axis powers' advance on Cairo under Rommel, while his fellow club member Count Almasy tried to spirit the Egyptian Chief of Staff out of Cairo, and succeeded in inserting German spies. Both of them were using knowledge and desert craft drawn from the hazardous hunt for the Zerzura Oasis, where each had deceived the other about his true purpose. In telling this story, Saul Kelly draws on interviews with survivors as well as previously unknown documentary material in Britain, Italy, Germany, Hungary and Egypt. His book reads like a thriller by John Buchan or Frederick Forsyth - with one key difference: it is true.
Author : Karen Lynnea Piper
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813530734
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Cartographic Fictions written by Karen Lynnea Piper and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maps are stories as much about us as about the landscape. They reveal changing perceptions of the natural world, as well as conflicts over the acquisition of territories. Cartographic Fictions looks at maps in relation to journals, correspondence, advertisements, and novels by authors such as Joseph Conrad and Michael Ondaatje. In her innovative study, Karen Piper follows the history of cartography through three stages: the establishment of the prime meridian, the development of aerial photography, and the emergence of satellite and computer mapping. Piper follows the cartographer's impulse to "leave the ground" as the desire to escape the racialized or gendered subject. With the distance that the aerial view provided, maps could then be produced "objectively," that is, devoid of "problematic" native interference. Piper attempts to bring back the dialogue of the "native informant," demonstrating how maps have historically constructed or betrayed anxieties about race. The book also attempts to bring back key areas of contact to the map between explorer/native and masculine/feminine definitions of space.
Author : Elizabeth Peters
Publisher : C & R Crime
ISBN 13 : 1780334494
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Guardian of the Horizon written by Elizabeth Peters and published by C & R Crime. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Banned from the Valley of the Kings, Amelia Peabody and her distinguished husband have returned to England with their 19-year-old son Ramses and their foster daughter, Nefret. Ramses is secretly in love with Nefret and plans to flee to Germany to avoid temptation. Then a mysterious visitor changes the plan for the whole family. Set in the Sudan, this is another exciting adventure which follows the Peabody family as they confront all the forces against them armed only with a crumbling map and an important letter...
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)
Download or read book Travel written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger S. Bagnall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108482163
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Great Oasis of Egypt written by Roger S. Bagnall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-18 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the history and archaeology of two oases, remote but closely tied to the Nile valley for thousands of years.
Author : Barbara E. Barich
Publisher : All’Insegna del Giglio
ISBN 13 : 8878145203
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (781 download)
Download or read book From Lake to Sand. The Archaeology of Farafra Oasis Western desert, Egypt written by Barbara E. Barich and published by All’Insegna del Giglio. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume presents all the data collected during the cycle of research conducted by the Italian Archaeological Mission in the Farafra Oasis between 1990 and 2005. The 29 multidisciplinary essays contained in this book provide a detailed picture of the population of the Farafra Oasis, hitherto one of the least well known within the Western Desert. Farafra became particularly important during the middle Holocene, the period when climate conditions were most favourable, with later brief humid episodes even in the historic periods. The results of the long-term research cycle presented here, combined with data from the survey of the whole Wadi el Obeiyid still in progress, allow the authors to identify changes in the peopling of the oasis and to define various occupation phases. The new chronology for the Wadi el Obeiyid is one of the main achievements of the book and, as demonstrated in the final chapter, is in complete agreement with the main cultural units of other territories in the Western Desert. On this chronological basis, the contacts between the latter and the populations established on the Nile are brought into sharper focus. The importance of the archaeological documents discovered at Farafra and, at the same time their fragility due to the deterioration of the physical environment and the uncontrolled human activities, make us fear for their conservation. We hope that this book, with its complete documentation of the precious nature of the Farafra Oasis landscape and its archaeological heritage, may help to promote more effective policies for its safeguard.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Geographical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 054413320X
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (441 download)
Download or read book Invisible Cities written by Italo Calvino and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2013-08-12 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italo Calvino's beloved, intricately crafted novel about an Emperor's travels—a brilliant journey across far-off places and distant memory. “Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo—Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities. As Marco Polo unspools his tales, the emperor detects these fantastic places are more than they appear.
