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Book Synopsis The Last Caravan by : Thurston Clarke
Download or read book The Last Caravan written by Thurston Clarke and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Caravan is a powerful and dramatic account of how the great African drought of the early 1970s transformed the nomadic Tuareg, the famous blue-veiled men of the Beau Geste legend. Thurston Clarke recounts their story in his words and theirs, allowing them to come to life as they describe their sufferings and wanderings in search of food and comfort. Their story is a powerful one of ecological disaster, of the courage and nobility of an ancient people facing extinction, and of the struggle to preserve their families and way of life.
Book Synopsis The Last Caravan and Other Short Stories by : Bello Musa Dankano
Download or read book The Last Caravan and Other Short Stories written by Bello Musa Dankano and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - What can be more exciting or fulfulling, than to bring your enemy to submission, or at least see him brought to his knees like the hunchback, El-Noor who was virtually abducted for ritual purposes only to emerge victorious after the jinn in him has intervened? Jinn! El-Noor couldn't believe that he had one under his beck and call. - Enter the weird camel, bold and daring whose anger humbled the powerful king of Sumaiya after a reign of terror that has turned the people into servitude unacceptable to the camel. - Then the old Whale, that ruminates on the excessess of the human species and vowed to bring pollution to an end. - In this two-part story, African wizardry and witchcraft has gone global in line with the much talked about globalization after conquering the home front. - When will the wealth of the world be equitably distributed so that the wealthy can sleep with their two eyes closed? - And won't you be happy if you are made to be productive at last, or do you still prefer servitude and invite the wrath of the brats who warned the people of Ashadalafia: Get up and be productive! - Oh Africa, my Africa, where the extended family system comes in handy, in a world fast becoming anonymous and unfamiliar.
Book Synopsis You are Not Alone & Other Stories by : Sherril Jaffe
Download or read book You are Not Alone & Other Stories written by Sherril Jaffe and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. A homeless woman takes up residence in a man's closet; a detective solves cases by feeling the emotions of the perpetrators; a woman happens upon a swingers' club in the back of a tire shop; a couple struggling with their pets' protracted endgame puts out a hit on them; and a man's mother, newly dead and buried, calls him to ask if she can visit. Each of these fifteen tales set in San Francisco uses its own dream logic to illuminate the great human themes of death, love, jealousy, anger, desire, and the nature of the soul. "These are stories where anything can happen, where we root for characters entangledby both everyday life and fantastical predicaments. Humor and loss weave tightly together through these pages, and Sherril Jaffe's formidable imagination and playful prose shine unexpected light on deep emotional truths." Caitlin Horrocks "In YOU ARE NOT ALONE & OTHER STORIES we hear the heart beating after it has stopped, but not as in Poe. It is righteous and profoundly moving how she convinces us that even when living ends, life continues as nuanced conversations with self and others. Sherril Jaffe's writing will survive us all." Maxine Chernoff "These stories pummel you deceptively, elegantly with the desperation and glory of people just like you muddling through their lives. Its characters stand teetering on brinks of their own making, the pin pulled from the grenade, the reader standing by, wide-eyed, anticipating the detonation, unable to stop turning pages." Joseph Bathanti"
Download or read book The Caravan written by Thomas Hegghammer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abdallah Azzam, the Palestinian cleric who led the mobilization of Arab fighters to Afghanistan in the 1980s, played a crucial role in the internationalization of the jihadi movement. Killed in mysterious circumstances in 1989 in Peshawar, Pakistan, he remains one of the most influential jihadi ideologues of all time. Here, in the first in-depth biography of Azzam, Thomas Hegghammer explains how Azzam came to play this role and why jihadism went global at this particular time. It traces Azzam's extraordinary life journey from a West Bank village to the battlefields of Afghanistan, telling the story of a man who knew all the leading Islamists of his time and frequented presidents, CIA agents, and Cat Stevens the pop star. It is, however, also a story of displacement, exclusion, and repression that suggests that jihadism went global for fundamentally local reasons.
Download or read book The Secrets of Story written by Matt Bird and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You've just boarded a plane. You've loaded your phone with your favorite podcasts, but before you can pop in your earbuds, disaster strikes: The guy in the next seat starts telling you all about something crazy that happened to him--in great detail. This is the unwelcome storyteller, trying to convince a reluctant audience to care about his story. We all hate that guy, right? But when you tell a story (any kind of story: a novel, a memoir, a screenplay, a stage play, a comic, or even a cover letter), you become the unwelcome storyteller. So how can you write a story that audiences will embrace? The answer is simple: Remember what it feels like to be that jaded audience. Tell the story that would win you over, even if you didn't want to hear it. The Secrets of Story provides comprehensive, audience-focused strategies for becoming a master storyteller. Armed with the Ultimate Story Checklist, you can improve every aspect of your fiction writing with incisive questions like these: • Concept: Is the one-sentence description of your story uniquely appealing? • Character: Can your audience identify with your hero? • Structure and Plot: Is your story ruled by human nature? • Scene Work: Does each scene advance the plot and reveal character through emotional reactions? • Dialogue: Is your characters' dialogue infused with distinct personality traits and speech patterns based on their lives and backgrounds? • Tone: Are you subtly setting, resetting, and upsetting expectations? • Theme: Are you using multiple ironies throughout the story to create meaning? To succeed in the world of fiction and film, you have to work on every aspect of your craft and satisfy your audience. Do both--and so much more--with The Secrets of Story.
Book Synopsis The Last Slave Market by : Alastair Hazell
Download or read book The Last Slave Market written by Alastair Hazell and published by Constable. This book was released on 2011-06-23 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Kirk was the only companion of explorer David Livingstone to emerge untainted from the disastrous, tragic expedition up the Zambezi river between 1859 and 1863. Three years later, Kirk returned to Africa, to the notorious island of Zanzibar, ancient post of the slave trade between Africa and the Middle East. Half a century after the abolition of slavery in Britain, slave traffi cking persisted on Africa's east coast, apparently tolerated and even connived with by parts of the British Empire in the Indian Ocean. Kirk, appointed as medical officer to the British Consulate in Zanzibar, could do nothing. This extraordinary and controversial book brings Kirk's years in Zanzibar to life. The horrors of the overland passage from the interior, and the Zanzibar slave market itself, are vividly described, together with Kirk's final, bitter conflict with Livingstone, who blamed Kirk for his own failings. But it was Kirk's success in closing down the slave trade on the island which made him famous across the world. Using private diaries and papers, a long forgotten Victorian hero and an extraordinary chapter in British history are revived in detail.
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Book Synopsis The First Jewel of Earth by : James W. Greenhalge
Download or read book The First Jewel of Earth written by James W. Greenhalge and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "He's waiting for you!" With this enigmatic invitation, the Traveler finds himself swept into a world that is completely alien, yet strangely familiar. He is told that he will be returning home, yet this new world is inhabited by elves, trolls, and centaurs. Everything has changed! Magic, mysticism, and superstition seem to hold more power here than logic and rationality. And a disturbing truth emerges; human history is being deliberately rewritten to disguise an invasion by rebels from another dimension intent upon harnessing humanity to their will. Opposing them is the sovereign government from this same dimension, whose leadership will not become directly involved in the struggle on Earth. Humans must be recruited, then trained to resist this ominous distortion of history. Given the assistance of two extraordinary companions and a magical pendant, the Traveler is told to recover an item lost in the conflict since antiquity, an integral part of a much more powerful mechanism, the First Jewel of Earth. You will find yourself challenged to place this book within conventional categories. Is this fiction, fantasy, or prophecy? Is this story set in the distant past or the emerging future? Is it possible that two alien forces have been struggling for control of human history since the beginning of time? Join the Traveler in pursuing this quest. Like him, your reality will be forever changed!
Book Synopsis My Life as an Explorer by : Sven Anders Hedin
Download or read book My Life as an Explorer written by Sven Anders Hedin and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of the Swedish explorer who started the international race in the early half of the twentieth century to uncover and remove the long-lost treasures of the ancient Silk Road in China.
Book Synopsis Turkey and the Holocaust by : Stanford J. Shaw
Download or read book Turkey and the Holocaust written by Stanford J. Shaw and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The neutrality maintained by Turkey during most of the Second World War enabled it to rescue thousands of Jews from the Holocaust in the Nazi-occupied or collaborating countries of Europe. This book shows how in France, the Turkish consuls in Paris and Marseilles intervened to protect Turkish Jews from application of anti-Jewish laws introduced both by the German occupying authorities and the Vichy government and rescued them from concentration camps, getting them off trains destined for the extermination chambers in the East, and arranging train caravans and other special transportation to take them through Nazi-occupied territory to safety in Turkey. 'an important and unique addition to the vast scholarship available on that tragic era' Rabbi Abraham Cooper
Book Synopsis 100 Walks in Northumberland by : Norman Johnsen
Download or read book 100 Walks in Northumberland written by Norman Johnsen and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Northumberland offers a wide range of delights for the walker - from coastal walks to important historical features such as Hadrian's Wall. This collection of 100 walks of up to 12 miles will help you explore the best of this diverse county. The Crowood Walking Guides give detailed and accurate route descriptions of the 100 walks, with full-colour mapping and details of where to park and where to eat and drink, and places of interest to see along the way. Of great interest to anyone living in Northumberland, or visiting family or friends and who enjoys walking - from retirees to young families. Illustrated with 100 colour route maps and one regional map.
Book Synopsis The Dedicated Villain by : Patricia Veryan
Download or read book The Dedicated Villain written by Patricia Veryan and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roland Farleigh Mathieson, the notorious rake who appeared in earlier volumes of The Golden Chronicles, returns in a new role as the hero of this final volume in Patricia Veryan's highly acclaimed series of romantic adventures set in Georgian England. Known to friends and enemies alike as the elusive Otton, the hero of The Dedicated Villain has successfully profited from a politically turbulent period in British history, using the jacobite rebellion to further his own mercenary plans. A dedicated ladies' man, Mathieson has never claimed to be loyal to anyone but himself, and has taken great pains to remain anonymous whenever possible...
Book Synopsis The Guardians of Asira: Inheritance (BOOK ONE) by : Maggie H. Smith
Download or read book The Guardians of Asira: Inheritance (BOOK ONE) written by Maggie H. Smith and published by Writers Republic LLC. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen generations have passed since a newborn prince was cast into the currents as a sacrifice to the sea gods. But the Lord of Creation had other plans. To save her people from extinction, Lolani Aeramiel once stole a child, brought to her by the Mermaids of the Eryn, who rescued him from certain death, and for three years protected him under a pact with the Creator Himself, until the princess was betrayed. But instead of rallying her people to revenge, Lolani abdicated the throne, but left an Heir who would unite the Creator’s people under one banner. Following a brutal confrontation with her childhood nemesis, Breena Everly, town misfit, and everyone’s favorite patsy is led into the ancient burial grounds of a long-forgotten people, by a voice that reveals the distant past where she discovers a terrible secret involving a lost woman everyone believes is dead. When she returns home to a storm-ravaged village, she finds that she is suspected of summoning the storms and after healing the victims of the Elemental attack that destroyed her village, she is forced to flee the only home she had ever known. Alone and on the run, Breena must determine what the Lord of Creation revealed to her in the mountain. Will she accept the truth of her heritage, or will she forge her own path?
Book Synopsis Cultivation: Master of Spiritual Talisman by : Ran Ran
Download or read book Cultivation: Master of Spiritual Talisman written by Ran Ran and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-01-08 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mountain village teenager obtained a talisman book and embarked on the road of cultivation. Relying on his strong determination, he subdued the Gui Demon and subdued the Female Ghost, and also obtained rewards in the process of exterminating demons and devils. His cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds, reaching heights that ordinary people would not be able to reach in the short span of a few years. In the end, he even entered a Minor World and obtained a ten-thousand-year treasure. He established his own power and became the number one figure in the Immortal Cultivation World.
Book Synopsis Performing Statelessness in Europe by : S.E. Wilmer
Download or read book Performing Statelessness in Europe written by S.E. Wilmer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines performative strategies that contest nationalist prejudices in representing the conditions of refugees, the stateless and the dispossessed. In the light of the European Union failing to find a political solution to the current migration crisis, it considers a variety of artistic works that have challenged the deficiencies in governmental and transnational practices, as well as innovative efforts by migrants and their hosts to imagine and build a new future. It discusses a diverse range of performative strategies, moving from a consideration of recent adaptations of Greek tragedy, to performances employing fictive identification, documentary dramas, immersive theatre, over-identification and subversive identification, nomadism and political activism. This study will appeal to those interested in questions of statelessness, migration, and the problematic role of the nation-state.
Book Synopsis The Chronicle of Zenobia by : Judith Weingarten
Download or read book The Chronicle of Zenobia written by Judith Weingarten and published by Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Pu. This book was released on 2006 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Well-Favoured Man by : Elizabeth Willey
Download or read book The Well-Favoured Man written by Elizabeth Willey and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Argylle, where the ruling family - a brilliant, flighty, civilized and occasionally dangerous clan of nearly-immortal warriors and magicians - are hoping for a few years of relative peace. True, their Father Gaston has vanished, leaving both throne and family while he pursues some unexplained errand. His absence has stretched into years. True as well that their powerful Uncle Dewar has also wandered off without leaving a forwarding address, and hasn't been heard from for a worrisome length of time. It's a bad habit of running off that this family's elders have. But now young Prince Gwydion's been stuck with ruling the Dominion of Argylle, and with any luck, life can go back to being a satisfactory mixture of intrigue, gossip and viniculture, periodically enlivened by amateur theatricals and the odd quest or two. Yet Gwydion is finding this arrangement uncomfortable. Strange things keep turning up. A plague of monsters appears out of nowhere, attempting to take up residence in the local barns and forests. These are trumped by the arrival of a ravenous Great Dragon - ancient, sorcerous, profoundly cunning - so big you can see it thirty miles away. Meanwhile, a mysterious young woman has shown up, claiming to be Gwydion's long-lost - indeed, quite unexpected - sister. And then there are the high-tech aliens, who say they just want to conduct a legal investigation. It's enough, Gwydion thinks, to make a ruler want to find some nice long errand that'll take him away from his homeland for a spell... The Well-Favored Man is a courtly, complex, bloody-minded fantasy for those who love Roger Zelazny's Amber, Ellen Kushner's Swordspoint and the fantasy adventures of Steven Brust.
