Download or read book Desert Challenge written by Richard Gordon Lillard and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General history of Nevada; how geology, mining, and ranching contributed to its development.
Download or read book A Bear Grylls Adventure 2 The Desert Challenge written by Bear Grylls and published by Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exciting second book in the new young readers series from survival expert and Chief Scout BEAR GRYLLS. Sophie loves activity camp . . . but is terrified of insects. It's so bad that she won't go into the tent on her own, just in case something flies at her, or she steps on a creepie-crawlie. But when she's given a compass by one of the other boys on the campsite, Sophie is magically transported to the desert on an adventure where they're impossible to avoid! With the help of survival expert Bear Grylls as her guide, she will learn how to withstand the extreme temperatures of the desert and how to spot mirages, encounter giant camel spiders, deadly scorpions and snakes . . . but will Sophie overcome her fear of insects back in the real world? And who will she give the compass to next? Each book in this fun new 12-book series from BEAR GRYLLS follows a different child on the outdoor activity camp. Once they are given the magical compass, they meet the inspirational adventurer in an amazing place and learn new skills and facts they can take back with them to their real life.
Download or read book Agent Arthur s Desert Challenge written by Martin Oliver and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These stories of adventure and mystery are interwoven with puzzles to solve, extra clues and answers are at the back.
Download or read book Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy written by Aidan Tynan and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aidan explores the ways in which Nietzsche's warning that 'the desert grows' has been taken up by Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze in their critiques of modernity, and the desert in literature ranging from T.S Eliot to Don DeLillo; from imperial travel writing to postmodernism; and from the Old Testament to salvagepunk.
Download or read book The California Desert written by United States Land Management Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Triumph in the Desert written by Peter David and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1991 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commemorates the allied victory and the liberation of Kuwait from the terror of the Iraqi occupation.
Download or read book A Bear Grylls Adventure 1 The Blizzard Challenge written by Bear Grylls and published by Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first thrilling adventure in the brand-new collectible series for young readers from survival expert and Chief Scout BEAR GRYLLS. Olly isn't enjoying activity camp. Why should he bother building a shelter or foraging for food with his teammates - he'd rather be at home in the warm and dry, where the sofa and the video games are. But then Olly gets given a compass with a mysterious fifth direction. When he follows it, he's magically transported to a high mountain range where he meets survival expert Bear Grylls. With his help, Olly must learn to survive in sub-zero temperatures, including what to do if the ice cracks when you're crossing a frozen lake, or a blizzard sets in . . . But can his adventure with Bear Grylls change Olly's mind about teamwork and perseverance? And who will Olly give the compass to next? Each book in this fun new 12-book series from BEAR GRYLLS follows a different child on the outdoor activity camp. Once they are given the magical compass, they meet the inspirational adventurer in an amazing place and learn new skills and facts they can take back with them to their real life.
Download or read book The Desert Challenge written by Bear Grylls and published by . This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophie loves camp - but not the creepy-crawlies. Many more dangers lurk in the sandy dunes of the fiercely hot desert, where she, with Bear Grylls as her guide, must trek under a blazing sun to find water. Can Sophie face up to her fears and survive?
Download or read book Survive on a Desert Island written by Claire Llewellyn and published by Silver Dolphin Books. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventurous children can experience life as a desert island castaway without ever leaving home. With an eye-catching plastic cover filled with sand, full-color graphics, and easy-to-follow instructions Survive on a Desert Island, presents educational information in a dynamic, interactive format. Twelve exciting survival challenges put young readers to the test as they attempt to complete tasks like building a shelter, finding water, making a fire, and finding food. A quiz at the end shows readers how much they've learned. Children may have so much fun learning to survive, that they never want to be rescued!
Download or read book Down in the Dumps written by Jani Scandura and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mucking around in the messy terrain of American trash, Jani Scandura tells the story of the United States during the Great Depression through evocative and photo-rich portraits of four locales: Reno, Key West, Harlem, and Hollywood. In investigating these Depression-era “dumps,” places that she claims contained and reclaimed the cultural, ideological, and material refuse of modern America, Scandura introduces the concept of “depressive modernity,” an enduring affective component of American culture that exposes itself at those moments when the foundational myths of America and progressive modernity—capitalism, democracy, individualism, secularism, utopian aspiration—are thrown into question. Depressive modernity is modernity at a standstill. Such a modernity is not stagnant or fixed, nor immobile, but is constituted by an instantaneous unstaging of desire, territory, language, and memory that reveals itself in the shimmering of place. An interpretive bricolage that draws on an unlikely archive of 1930s detritus—office memos, scribbled manuscripts, scrapbooks, ruined photographs, newspaper clippings, glass eyes, incinerated stage sets, pulp novels, and junk washed ashore—Down in the Dumps escorts its readers through Reno’s divorce factory of the 1930s, where couples from across the United States came to quickly dissolve matrimonial bonds; Key West’s multilingual salvage economy and its status as the island that became the center of an ideological tug-of-war between the American New Deal government and a politically fraught Caribbean; post-Renaissance Harlem, in the process of memorializing, remembering, grieving, and rewriting a modernity that had already passed; and Studio-era Hollywood, Nathanael West’s “dump of dreams,” in which the introduction of sound in film and shifts in art direction began to transform how Americans understood place-making and even being itself. A coda on Alcatraz and the Pentagon brings the book into the present, exploring how American Depression comes to bear on post-9/11 America.
Download or read book Clementina s Cactus written by Ezra Jack Keats and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keats departs from his traditional style for his one and only wordless picture book, Clementina's Cactus. Clementina and her father are out for a walk in the desert when Clementina discovers a lone cactus, all shriveled and prickly. But Clementina discovers there is something beautiful hiding inside that thick skin.
Download or read book World War II and Nevada written by Charles Weller and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War II and Nevada is an in-depth examination of the state’s role in the war. Nevada’s geographic location, land, sky, mineral resources, and the sacrifices of its people were crucial to victory—and transformed the state. The war brought the first significant development of the gaming industry; the introduction of a huge, permanent military presence; the diversification of its population; and a shift in political and economic power within the region. Nevada’s previously unexamined role in the internment of Japanese Americans is explored, and so too is the role of women and minority groups in support of the war. The book concludes with a comprehensive list of those killed, wounded, or made prisoners of war during the conflict. Weller provides the most thorough analysis of Nevada’s war effort to date and historians will find the book a valuable addition to their World War II history collections.
Download or read book Morocco written by William Mark Habeeb and published by Gareth Stevens. This book was released on 2003 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located in the northwestern corner of Africa, the Kingdom of Morocco has an ancient society with a rich cultural history. Morocco is a young nation that only achieved independence in 1956. An Islamic state, Moroccans face the conflict of balancing their traditions with the attractions of modern society. From the Sahara Desert to the capital city of Rabat, from the ruins of Volubilis to the splendor of the Hassan II Mosque, and from the traditional Berber people to women in the workforce, this book showcases a fascinating country that is proud of its past heritage and committed to moving forward into the future. Book jacket.
Download or read book Desert Challenge written by Richard Gordon Lillard and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Discover the Desert written by Kathryn Ceceri and published by Nomad Press. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delving into a seemingly dry and barren ecosystem, this fun-filled activity book closely examines the desert landscape and shows how many exciting discoveries it holds. Exploring native plants and animals and depicting the extreme temperatures, rough terrain, and vast distances in detail, this lively reference describes lost civilizations as well as today’s desert-dwelling cultures. “Try This” science and history activities are also included—from creating mirages and fashioning an Anasazi clay bowl to growing salt crystals and even assembling a cactus dish terrarium. Demonstrating why adventurers have always been drawn to the world’s deserts, this entertaining overview also provides education on the environment, examining how the health of the planet depends on the careful treatment of the desert’s many resources.
Download or read book The Desert Challenge written by Bear Grylls and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sophie loves camp--except for all the creepy-crawlies. Getting trapped in the tent with a daddy longlegs is terrifying, and spiders make her scream. It's so embarrassing. But then a mysterious compass transports her to a fiercely hot desert, where Bear Grylls, her guide, is watching. The sun is beating down, and together they must trek to find water and overcome the dangers lurking in the dunes...Will Sophie find her survival spirit, face up to her fears and make her way back to her friends?" -- Page [4] cover.
