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Book The Caravan Moves on

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  • Author : Irfan Orga
  • Publisher : Eland Publishing
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book The Caravan Moves on written by Irfan Orga and published by Eland Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orga journeys to the center of Turkey to stay with the Yuruk nomads in the High Taurus Mountains, learning their lore and legends in a world untouched by politics or the march of events.

Book Dogs Bark  but the Caravan Rolls On

Download or read book Dogs Bark but the Caravan Rolls On written by Frank Conroy and published by HMH. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “superb blend of personal essays and journalistic articles” on everything from fatherhood to writing workshops to jazz musicians (Chicago Sun-Times). “At once subtle and dazzling,” these pieces—collected from such publications as Esquire, Harper’s Magazine, and GQ—serve as both a wide-ranging journey through topics like art and music and an autobiographical look into the life of one of our most acclaimed literary figures, the author of such books as Stop-Time and Body & Soul and a director of the renowned Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa (Publishers Weekly). “[An] interesting and well-done anthology. Conroy takes on such topics as learning to play pool, fatherhood, the value of now-disappearing small towns in instilling family values, the enthusiasms of jazz musician Wynton Marsalis, and, of course, the Writers’ Workshop.” —Library Journal “Highly enjoyable and illuminating . . . Dogs Bark is simply one of the best books published in a long, long time.” —Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Book The Caravan Goes on

Download or read book The Caravan Goes on written by Frank Jungers and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of one man's journey to leadership of the world's largest energy company, The Caravan Goes On is the first published inside account of the workings of the corporation by a CEO and represents a significant addition to the literature on the turbulent development of the world's oil industry. Frank Jungers, former President, Chairman and CEO of the petroleum giant Aramco, tells the inside story of his three decades in Saudi Arabia (1947-1978) with the world's largest oil producing company. A North Dakota farm boy Jungers rose to the top of one of the most important hydrocarbon enterprises ever, a company that eventually found itself responsible for nearly one-quarter of the world's oil resources. He writes of his face-to-face encounters with King Faisal and other Saudi leaders, and his role in steering the company through major international crises that included the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, the dramatic oil price increases of the 1970s, the Arab oil embargo and the OPEC hostage incident of 1975. Central to Jungers' story is his role in helping to develop Aramco's Saudi workforce in preparation for the eventual transfer of company ownership from four American oil majors to the Government of Saudi Arabia. He explains the unique nature of the ownership transfer, which was remarkably different from the bitter nationalization process seen in Iraq, Libya, Iran and Venezuela. Jungers describes how Aramco and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in an important sense grew up together, and he highlights the crucial role played by Aramco in the development of the young nation's infrastructure and economy. The Caravan Goes On describes the origins of the petroleum industry in Saudi Arabia, with the granting of a concession in 1933 to a subsidiary of Standard Oil of California, the first of Aramco's four oil-company parents. Jungers talks of his own origins as the son of farmer in North Dakota, the family's migration westward due to drought and depression, and his engineering studies at the University of Washington. Jungers began his career in Saudi Arabia working at Ras Tanura, site of Aramco's first oil refinery and oil tanker terminal. He describes how Aramco built its initial workforce, consisting of Americans, Italians, Saudis and other nationalities; he explains how it soon became clear that the future of the Saudi oil industry belonged not with foreign oil interest but to the people of Saudi Arabia; and he relates how he and others worked to give Saudis the training and incentives needed to take over and successfully operate what would become the world's premier oil producing and exporting company. At the same time, Aramco, with its technological expertise and its access to international specialists, began playing a central role in the development of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The company, with support and encouragement of the Saudi Kings, took a lead role in building healthcare, agriculture, the railroads, the electric grid and other sectors of the Saudi economy. The story of the "King Faisal Era" (including the monarch's role in the oil price issue, the Arab oil embargo and his closed-door meetings with the King and his key advisers, including Oil Minister Shaikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani) are vividly described, as well as the shock of King Faisal's tragic death and the tense moments of the OPEC hostage incident that began in Vienna and ended in North Africa. This personal, colorful and up-close view is required reading for oil-industry watchers as well as those interested in big business, geopolitics, America's role in the Middle East and the extraordinary transformation and emergence of modern Saudi Arabia since oil was discovered in its Eastern Province.

Book The Caravan

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  • Author : Thomas Hegghammer
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2020-03-05
  • ISBN : 1108625274
  • Pages : 721 pages

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.

Book The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs

Download or read book The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs written by John Simpson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists recorded usages and meaning for hundreds of proverbs arranged by key word, from "Absence makes the heart grow fonder" to "Youth must be served."

Book Five Go Off in a Caravan

Download or read book Five Go Off in a Caravan written by Enid Blyton and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Five Go Off in a Caravan" by Enid Blyton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Book One Man Caravan

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  • Author : Robert Edison Fulton
  • Publisher : Motorbooks
  • Release : 2016-10-01
  • ISBN : 0760353301
  • Pages : 355 pages

Download or read book One Man Caravan written by Robert Edison Fulton and published by Motorbooks. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This adventurous work records Robert Edison Fulton's solo round-the-world tour on a two-cylinder Douglas motorcycle between July, 1932 and December, 1933. First published in 1937.

Book Five Go Off in a Caravan

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  • Author : Enid Blyton
  • Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
  • Release : 2020-04-21
  • ISBN : 1479459712
  • Pages : 163 pages

Download or read book Five Go Off in a Caravan written by Enid Blyton and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just when the Five were wondering what to do for their summer holiday, a circus with all its gay caravans and performing animals came along the road. This gave them the thrilling idea of going off in a caravan themselves. And thrilling they found it, for when at last they caught up with the circus it was plain that some of the characters had more sinister ways of passing their time than clowning in the Big Top. Without Timmy and Pongo the chimpanzee the criminals would never have got their deserts, and even Anne, who had wanted an ordinary holiday, not too exciting, was sorry when their adventure was all over. This is the Five’s fifth adventure.

Book The Caravan Mystery

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  • Author : Fergus Hume
  • Publisher : Read Books Ltd
  • Release : 2016-01-18
  • ISBN : 1473378893
  • Pages : 186 pages

Download or read book The Caravan Mystery written by Fergus Hume and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Fergus Hume was originally published in 1926 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Caravan Mystery' is a great crime novel by this classic fiction writer. Fergusson Wright Hume was born on 8th July 1859 in England, the second son of Dr. James Hume. The family migrated to New Zealand where Fergus was enrolled at Otago Boys' High School, and later continued his legal and literary studies at the University of Otago. Hume returned to England in 1888 where he resided in London for a few years until moving to the Essex countryside. There he published over 100 novels, mainly in the mystery fiction genre, though none had the success of his début work.

Book We re Riding on a Caravan

Download or read book We re Riding on a Caravan written by Laurie Krebs and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join the caravan for an exciting year-long trek along China's ancient Silk Road. Following the rhyming, treasure-filled story are informational endnotes about the history of the Silk Road, the story of silk, important cities of China, and a full-spread map. Ages: 4-10 Colour illustrations

Book Caravan Family

Download or read book Caravan Family written by Enid Blyton and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holiday dreams come true for one lucky family in Enid Blyton's classic Family Series. When Dad buys two caravans, Mike, Belinda and Ann are delighted. Henceforth they are known as the Caravan Family. Not only do they live in their beautiful new homes, but they also travel the world and go on the most amazing holidays. First published in 1945, this edition contains the original text and artwork.

Book Five Go Off in a Caravan

Download or read book Five Go Off in a Caravan written by Enid Blyton and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Famous Five are on holiday in a horse-drawn caravan! Soon they catch up with a circus - but some of the circus people have more sinister plans than just clowning around.

Book The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York

Download or read book The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe     Now First Correctly Reprinted from the Original Edition of 1719  With an Introduction     by William Lee     Illustrations by Ernest Griset

Download or read book The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Now First Correctly Reprinted from the Original Edition of 1719 With an Introduction by William Lee Illustrations by Ernest Griset written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York  Mariner  Written by Himself  With an Introductory Memoir of Daniel De Foe  A Memoir of Alexander Selkirk  an Account of Peter Serrano  and Other Interesting Additions

Download or read book The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York Mariner Written by Himself With an Introductory Memoir of Daniel De Foe A Memoir of Alexander Selkirk an Account of Peter Serrano and Other Interesting Additions written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York  Mariner  Correctly Reprinted from the Original Edition

Download or read book The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York Mariner Correctly Reprinted from the Original Edition written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: