Download or read book Caravan of the Lost and Left Behind written by Deirdre Shanahan and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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:
Download or read book The Hajj written by F. E. Peters and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the duties God imposes upon every Muslim capable of doing so is a pilgrimage to the holy places in and around Mecca in Arabia. Not only is it a religious ritual filled with blessings for the millions who make the journey annually, but it is also a social, political, and commercial experience that for centuries has set in motion a flood of travelers across the world's continents. Whatever its outcome--spiritual enrichment, cultural exchange, financial gain or ruin--the road to Mecca has long been an exhilarating human adventure. By collecting the firsthand accounts of these travelers and shaping their experiences into a richly detailed narrative, F. E. Peters here provides an unparalleled literary history of the central ritual of Islam from its remote pre-Islamic origins to the end of the Hashimite Kingdom of the Hijaz in 1926.
Download or read book The Geographical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Settlers written by Vilhelm Moberg and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book in Moberg's classic Emigrant Novels series.
Download or read book The Bodies Left Behind written by Jeffery Deaver and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-11-11 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A signature Jeffery Deaver. A cat and mouse chase that will leave you breathless.
Download or read book Travels in Mesopotamia written by James Silk Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Country of Dreaming Caravans written by Gerard Houarner and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2022-08-27 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once and now, a little girl who plays with ghosts and spirits is lost in the desert… No family, no friends, just memories of an old life in a world of cities and cars, and a head full of visions and dreams that don’t belong in the world. She likes to tell stories. She stinks of camel. Once, she will say, “The scorpion was not always a creature of pain, just as each of us was not always what we have become.” Many times, she wonders what she is worth to the living who sell her, buy and steal her, to the spirits and ghosts and djinn and ghuls she plays with, to the Caravan of the Dead she comes to belong to, to the dead who wake her and are awakened by her. Once and now, she wonders what others are willing to pay for her stories… “A redemptive story of the saving magic of story itself. Lose yourself, and find yourself, in the tale of Aini, a virgin storyteller cast adrift by selfish parents to the whims of the desert to make her way in the world…maybe all the way to the Caravan of Dreams. In this short novel, Houarner has crafted a fantastic, beautifully dark journey to the center of the secret heart!” — John Everson, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Covenant and NightWhere "Houarner, always a maestro of the “smart” horror tale, further hones his art in this scary provocative nod to The Thousand and One Nights and other ancient traditions of phantasmal story-telling. Chock full the macabre and populated by the arabesque horrors of a culture far older than ours, this great new work by Houarner is a Must Read for all venturers into weird fiction.” —Edward Lee, author of White Trash Gothic and City Infernal
Download or read book Travels in Mesopotamia including a journey from Alepo across the Euphrates to Orfah the Ur of the Chaldees written by J. Buckingham (S.) and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Travels in Mesopotamia Including a Journey from Aleppo Across the Euphrates to Orfah the Ur of the Chaldees Through the Plains of the Turcomans to Diabekr in Asia Minor from Thence to Mardin on the Borders of the Great Desert and by the Tigris to Mousul and Bagdad with Researches on the Ruins of Babylon Nineveh Arbela Ctesiphon and Seleucia written by James Silk Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lost Time written by M.C. Ashley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blake Azarel is trapped in a vampire-infested America. He's now the only surviving member of the Gray Forum, a secret organization sworn to protect the world from supernatural forces. An accident propels him into this bleak future. Join him as he unlocks the mysteries of his past, and confronts the vampires who now control society.
Download or read book The Roma Struggle for Compensation in Post war Germany written by Julia Von dem Knesebeck and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years passed before it was accepted, in West Germany and elsewhere, that the Roma (Germany's Gypsies) had been Holocaust victims. And, similarly, it took thirty years for the West German state to admit that the sterilisation of Roma had been part of the 'Final Solution'. Drawing on a substantial body of previously unseen sources, this book examines the history of the struggle of Roma for recognition as racially persecuted victims of National Socialism in post-war Germany. Since modern academics belatedly began to take an interest in them, the Roma have been described as 'forgotten victims'. This book looks at the period in West Germany between the end of the War and the beginning of the Roma civil rights movement in the early 1980s, during which the Roma were largely passed over when it came to compensation. The complex reasons for this are at the heart of this book.
Download or read book Mungo Park and the Niger written by Joseph Thomson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book The Prophet s Heir written by Hassan Abbas and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and legacy of one of Mohammad’s closest confidants and Islam’s patron saint: Ali ibn Abi Talib Ali ibn Abi Talib is arguably the single most important spiritual and intellectual authority in Islam after prophet Mohammad. Through his teachings and leadership as fourth caliph, Ali nourished Islam. But Muslims are divided on whether he was supposed to be Mohammad’s political successor—and he continues to be a polarizing figure in Islamic history. Hassan Abbas provides a nuanced, compelling portrait of this towering yet divisive figure and the origins of sectarian division within Islam. Abbas reveals how, after Mohammad, Ali assumed the spiritual mantle of Islam to spearhead the movement that the prophet had led. While Ali’s teachings about wisdom, justice, and selflessness continue to be cherished by both Shia and Sunni Muslims, his pluralist ideas have been buried under sectarian agendas and power politics. Today, Abbas argues, Ali’s legacy and message stands against that of ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and Taliban.
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Download or read book Travels in Arabia Deserta written by Charles Montagu Doughty and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travels in Arabia Deserta, originally published in 1888, is a two-volume set which describes English poet Charles Doughty's extensive travels through the Arabian deserts and the discoveries he made there. The work became well-regarded for its beautiful prose as well as its extensiveness, which made it a benchmark of ambitious travel writing in the early 20th century. Written in the style of the King James Bible, the text is extravagant and creative. In the 1920's, it was discovered by British Army Officer T.E. Lawrence, who spurred the book's republication, this time with an introduction from Lawrence. The book has been in and out of print since then, but the Cosimo edition is a rare 1921 reprint, and includes the Lawrence introduction. Volume I includes T.E. Lawrence's Introduction, as well as accounts of Doughty's treks to Mecca, Ammon and Moab, the Mountain of Edom, Arabia, the Passage of the Harra, Teyma, and more. He also describes nomad life in the desert and ancient stories, peoples, and myths connected with his travels. CHARLES MONTAGU DOUGHTY (1843-1926) was an English poet and writer born in Theberton Hall, Saxmundham, Suffolk. He attended King's College London and graduated from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1864. Among this author's works are an epic poem in six volumes titled The Dawn in Britain, published in 1906, and his well-known Travels in Arabia Deserta, for which he received much praise.
Download or read book A Child Left Behind written by Phil Hutcheon and published by Mudville Nine Books. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a baby is abandoned in the richest country in the world? Five college students are about to find out.With a theme from Dickens, a narrative technique from Faulkner, and a diverse cast of characters from the gritty, All-American city of Stockton, California, A Child Left Behind invites readers to consider the humanitarian crises right under our noses, even while CNN shows us those at our borders and around the world. Tackling a new topic with the same "inherently compelling...memorably irreverent" (Midwest Book Review) style of his previous novels, Phil Hutcheon has crafted another "hilariously inappropriate" (Kirkus Reviews) contemporary tale.
