Download or read book Travel Tales in the Promised Land written by Karl Friedrich May and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-09 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel Tales in the Promised Land by Karl Friedrich May As soon as they step into my house and see my strange collection of travel keepsakes, all visitors' eyes are drawn to the Arabian saddle, which actually deserves credit as the inspiration and author of this story. It has Oriental-red velvet, richly decorated with gold embroidery. This Pasha saddle was fit for a tribal Turkish chieftain, having comfortable stirrups and an accompanying dreadful bit that could conquer the stubborn resistance of even the mightiest horse. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Download or read book Travel Tales in the Promised Land Palestine written by Karl Friedrich May and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-08 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation copyright (C) 2008 by James D. Schoonover. Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to [email protected] This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via [email protected]
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Download or read book The Whispering Land written by Gerald Durrell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naturalist Gerald Durrell recalls his expedition to South America to find exotic animals in this follow-up to A Zoo in My Luggage. After bringing multiple species of African animals back to the Channel Island of Jersey to populate their new zoo, British naturalist Gerald Durrell and his wife followed their passion for wildlife preservation on a journey to South America. With a team of helpers, they spent eight months on safari searching for exotic specimens. Through windswept Patagonian shores and tropical forests in the Argentine, from ocelots to penguins, fur seals to parrots to pumas, the author who inspired the public television drama The Durrells in Corfu captures the landscape and its inhabitants with his signature charm and humor. Filled with adventure, exploration, and the spirit of conservation, The Whispering Land is a memoir that animal lovers of all ages will enjoy. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Gerald Durrell including rare photos from the author’s estate.
Download or read book Collection of the Best Works of Mark Twain s Travel Tales How to Tell a Story and Other Essays by Mark Twain The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories by Mark Twain The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-06-22 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 1: Unravel the art of storytelling with “How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays by Mark Twain.” Twain's collection of essays provides keen insights into the craft of storytelling, sprinkled with his signature humor and wit. Explore the nuances of narrative technique as Twain shares his thoughts on the art of spinning a compelling tale. Book 2: Venture into the realms of mystery and the supernatural with “The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories by Mark Twain.” Twain's short stories delve into the mysterious and fantastical, showcasing his versatility as a storyteller. Each tale offers a glimpse into Twain's imagination, blending the mundane with the extraordinary. Book 3: Embark on a humorous and insightful journey through Europe and the Holy Land with “The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain.” Twain's travel narrative captures the humor and observations of a group of American tourists exploring foreign lands. Filled with satire and cultural commentary, this work reflects Twain's keen eye for the absurdities of travel and human nature.
Download or read book Promised Land written by Elizabeth Musser and published by Bethany House Publishers. This book was released on 2020 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Desperate to mend her marriage and herself, Abbie Bartholomew joins her son in walking the famed Camino pilgrimage. During their journey, they encounter an Iranian working in secret to help refugees and a journalist searching for answers from her broken past-and everyone is called into a deep soul-searching that threatens all their best laid plans"--
Download or read book My Promised Land written by Ari Shavit and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE ECONOMIST Winner of the Natan Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award An authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of the State of Israel, by one of the most influential journalists writing about the Middle East today Not since Thomas L. Friedman’s groundbreaking From Beirut to Jerusalem has a book captured the essence and the beating heart of the Middle East as keenly and dynamically as My Promised Land. Facing unprecedented internal and external pressures, Israel today is at a moment of existential crisis. Ari Shavit draws on interviews, historical documents, private diaries, and letters, as well as his own family’s story, illuminating the pivotal moments of the Zionist century to tell a riveting narrative that is larger than the sum of its parts: both personal and national, both deeply human and of profound historical dimension. We meet Shavit’s great-grandfather, a British Zionist who in 1897 visited the Holy Land on a Thomas Cook tour and understood that it was the way of the future for his people; the idealist young farmer who bought land from his Arab neighbor in the 1920s to grow the Jaffa oranges that would create Palestine’s booming economy; the visionary youth group leader who, in the 1940s, transformed Masada from the neglected ruins of an extremist sect into a powerful symbol for Zionism; the Palestinian who as a young man in 1948 was driven with his family from his home during the expulsion from Lydda; the immigrant orphans of Europe’s Holocaust, who took on menial work and focused on raising their children to become the leaders of the new state; the pragmatic engineer who was instrumental in developing Israel’s nuclear program in the 1960s, in the only interview he ever gave; the zealous religious Zionists who started the settler movement in the 1970s; the dot-com entrepreneurs and young men and women behind Tel-Aviv’s booming club scene; and today’s architects of Israel’s foreign policy with Iran, whose nuclear threat looms ominously over the tiny country. As it examines the complexities and contradictions of the Israeli condition, My Promised Land asks difficult but important questions: Why did Israel come to be? How did it come to be? Can Israel survive? Culminating with an analysis of the issues and threats that Israel is currently facing, My Promised Land uses the defining events of the past to shed new light on the present. The result is a landmark portrait of a small, vibrant country living on the edge, whose identity and presence play a crucial role in today’s global political landscape. Praise for My Promised Land “This book will sweep you up in its narrative force and not let go of you until it is done. [Shavit’s] accomplishment is so unlikely, so total . . . that it makes you believe anything is possible, even, God help us, peace in the Middle East.”—Simon Schama, Financial Times “[A] must-read book.”—Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times “Important and powerful . . . the least tendentious book about Israel I have ever read.”—Leon Wieseltier, The New York Times Book Review “Spellbinding . . . Shavit’s prophetic voice carries lessons that all sides need to hear.”—The Economist “One of the most nuanced and challenging books written on Israel in years.”—The Wall Street Journal
Download or read book The Incredible Travel Tales of John Muir Illustrated Edition written by John Muir and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his numerous travels across the North America John Muir left behind a several travel books and travel reports. In September 1867, Muir undertook a walk of about 1,000 miles from Indiana to Florida, which he recounted in his book A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf. He had no specific route chosen, except to go by the "wildest, leafiest, and least trodden way I could find. Upon coming to California Muir immediately left for a visit to Yosemite, a place he had only read about. His hiking journeys through the mountains, valleys,forests andglaciersof Sierra are vividly described in books My First Summer in the Sierra and The Mountains of California. Muir also made four trips to Alaska and he documented these experiences in books Travels in Alaska and The Cruise of the Corwin. Steep Trails is collection of Muir's papers written during his journeysover a period of twenty-nine years collected by William Frederic Badè. Table of Contents: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf My First Summer in the Sierra The Mountains of California Travels in Alaska The Cruise of the Corwin Steep Trails John Muir (1838-1914) was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada mountainsof California, have been read by millions. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he founded, is a prominent American conservation organization.
Download or read book The Promised Land written by Decca Aitkenhead and published by Fourth Estate. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spirit of Alex Garland'sThe Beach,Decca Aitkenhead travels around the world in search of the perfect E and the perfect clubbing experience, 10 years after her first clubbing days in Manchester. Her journey links downtown Detroit with the townships of Cape Town, and beatnik San Francisco with Thailand's beach parties. While searching for the perfect pill, unintended encounters with dubious characters sometimes reveal she has travelled far from transcendence. While in Cape Town she meets the most notorious South African gangster and finds herself staring down the barrel of a gun in the hands of a dealer who is neither sober nor sane.
Download or read book Travel Tales written by A. B. M. Nurul Islam and published by Nurul Islam. This book was released on 2006-02-08 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRAVEL TALES is a collection of short stories written by A.B.M. Nurul Islam based on his observations while working and traveling through the vast swathe of the earth extending from the Land of the Rising Sun (Japan) on the east, through the Central Asian Republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in the middle, to the Atlantic shores of Europe on the west. The author while working to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons as a Safeguards Inspector was a keen observer of local customs and traditions, human behavior, follies and foibles. He was in a unique position to watch the countries of the former Soviet Socialist Republics emerge from the rubble of the collapse of the Soviet Empire. His insights into the people and customs of these countries told through travel tales, humorous and informative, written in a racy and fluent style, is sure to keep the reader interested till the end.
Download or read book Lehi s Family Travels to the Promised Land written by Robyn T Pearson and published by Joseph Smith Foundation. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lehi's Family: Travels to the Promised Land recounts the story of Lehi and his family as they travel from Jerusalem to America, the Promised Land. Beautiful and engaging artwork portrays stories from 1 Nephi including obtaining the brass plates from the wicked Laban, Nephi's broken bow, the vision of the Tree of Life, the building of Nephi's ship, and the Lehite voyage to the Promised Land. For children ages 3 and older. Illustrated by the author, Robyn T. Pearson. 16 pages, softcover
Download or read book Journey to the Promised Land written by Tony Morris and published by Lion. This book was released on 1986 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retelling of the Old Testament story of how God led the Israelites out of Egypt to the land of Canaan.
Download or read book Girls Who Travel written by Nicole Trilivas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious, deftly written debut novel about a woman whose wanderlust is about to show her that sometimes you don’t have to travel very far to become the person you want to be… There are many reasons women shouldn’t travel alone. But as foul-mouthed, sweet-toothed Kika Shores knows, there are many more reasons why they should. After all, most women want a lot more out of life than just having fun. Kika, for one, wants to experience the world. But ever since she returned from her yearlong backpacking tour, she’s been steeped in misery, battling rush hour with all the other suits. Getting back on the road is all she wants. So when she’s offered a nanny job in London – the land of Cadbury Cream Eggs – she’s happy at the prospect of going back overseas and getting paid for it. But as she’s about to discover, the most exhilarating adventures can happen when you stay in one place… Wise, witty, and hilarious, Girls Who Travel is an unforgettable novel about the highs and lows of getting what you want—and how it’s the things you least expect that can change your life.
Download or read book Journey To The Promised Land written by Nancy J. Blackburn and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of the story, Journey to the Promised Land, was inspired by a vision Nancy had one day in 1985 while praying. The presence of God and the vision was so profound that Nancy knew that she had a responsibility to write what the Holy Spirit was giving her. The story did not come all at once. Days, months, and sometimes a year went by before she would get another thought on the story. The ending of the story did not come until after twenty-six years. It took twenty-eight years to complete her book. Young readers ages eight to sixteen will be amazed with many short stories within a big story. Each story has its own significance to enrich imaginations and get the reader's attention. The overall big story is to help children to become aware of the Promised Land, which is God's gift to Israel. Young children need to know more about the Promised Land. Two tribes of Hebrew people live on Love Boot Island, the tribes of Judah and Levi. It is thought they are Messianic Jews. There is a great famine in the land. The Hebrew parents love their famine babies so much that they put them in ten boats under the care of Captain Hershel D. Langley and his wife, Tillie B. Langley. There is no other way to save the famine babies. They sail for the Promised Land. Amazing things happen on this journey. Some critters sabotage the boats, and they become scattered in the ocean. In the story, readers will find out about the honor of keeping promises, how God made an unconditional covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. This was God's promise, and God never breaks a promise. The story is both fictional and nonfictional, and the Holy Scriptures are true and real.
Download or read book To See A Promised Land written by Lester I. Vogel and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To See A Promised Land explores the fascination that Americans historically have had with the land of the Bible. By focusing on the period before World War I, Lester Vogel uncovers the various ways in which Americans (primarily Protestants) typically thought about and knew the Holy Land prior to the land's politicization and embroilment in the conflict between Arab and Jewish national interests. During this period, there were literally hundreds of popular books, pamphlets, and articles about the Holy Land available to American readers. Although most Americans never visited the Middle East, they nevertheless had distinct images of what the land was like through these writings, their churches, and their own reading of the Bible. On the very day of his assassination in 1865, even President Lincoln contemplated a tour of the Holy Land at the end of his term in office. Americans who did travel to the Middle East took with them preconceptions and brought back with them descriptions that, in turn, helped to reshape continually the popular image of the Holy Land. One of the most celebrated journeys to the East was the 1867 "Quaker City Tour," immortalized by Mark Twain in his Innocents Abroad. Vogel suggests that this unique relationship between Americans and a foreign land might be seen as an expression of "geopiety," a term coined by the geographer John Kirtland Wright to describe a certain mixture of place, past, and faith. To See A Promised Land draws upon a wide variety of written accounts--those of American travelers (from Twain to Theodore Roosevelt), missionaries, settlers and colonists, explorers, archaeologists, biblical scholars, and diplomats and officials--in order to shed light on this fascinating aspect of American thought and character.
Download or read book Journey to the Promised Land written by Jakob Streit and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master storyteller Jakob Streit retells stories from the Old Testament, including the stories of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Joshua, Saul and David.This book is perfect for use in Year 3 (age 9-10) in the Steiner-Waldorf curriculum, or as a reader in Year 4.This is the second of Jakob Streit's three books of Bible stories, along with And There Was Light and We Will Build a Temple.
Download or read book Europe written by Peter Rietbergen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Discusses the cultural history of Europe from prehistory to the modern day. Includes illustrations, maps and case studies"--Provided by publisher"--
