Download or read book Desert Falcon written by Leslie Goodyear and published by . This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mysterious art of falconry and it's universal kinship has endured with mankind for more than 4000 years, tying people to people and present to past. The falcon remains constant, reminding us that in our depths, we too remain steady, tied together through our humanity and to our past. Through lyrical voice honoring an Arabic poem, the legend of Desert Falcon, a rich, historical allegory with travel and adventure, tells the story of Rashid, a Bedouin boy who witnesses his father's murder in the heart of the desert. He journeys through a new life of discovery to an uncle he never knew and learns that he has a gift for the ancient art of falconry. His story and his gift earn him the admiration of a mysterious sheikh and secret assistance of his enigmatic youngest child. Fortified by a caravan leader's tale of warriors and mercenaries and the legend of a lost tribe of an honorable brotherhood, Rashid faces down his father's killer with the one sacred falcon that would be his key into their world, and teaches us to question the drive for what we desire against the heart of who we truly are.
Download or read book The Desert Falcon written by Claud Morris and published by General Company for Publication. This book was released on 1974 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Desert Falcons written by Don Pendleton and published by Gold Eagle. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ROYAL CONSPIRACY In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a secret group within the military is plotting to oust the Royal Family. Their next move: kidnapping the playboy prince from a desert warfare training session outside Las Vegas. But Sin City already has its share of trouble, with authorities investigating the disappearance of two park rangers and coping with threats made by an anti-Muslim rancher who has a highly efficient militia of his own. It falls to Mack Bolan to keep the prince safe at all costs. But someone in the heir's inner circle is a traitor, and the agents working the park ranger case are bound by official procedure. When it comes to stopping the fall of a kingdom and preventing a bloodbath on US soil, the Executioner makes his own rules.
Download or read book The Desert Falcons written by Keith Waldrop and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Desert Falcons is an exciting historical fiction novel about two young men (George Davis and Ronald Logan) that trained to be pilots in the Royal Air Force at Falcon Field in Mesa Arizona during World War II. George and Ronald graduated from different classes but became prisoners of war in the same Japanese camp. Their lives are connected for survival and apply the lessons and knowledge they received while at Falcon Field and the harsh conditions of Arizona of the 1940's. The Desert Falcons captures the life and times of the local citizens of Mesa Arizona and how Falcon Airfield being converted to train pilots and the impact to the community. The story honors the 23 British and American military men that perished in training from 1941 to 1945. These Novel honors those that gave the ultimate sacrifice and helped preserve freedom in a world being dominated by the forces of evil.
Download or read book Desert Falcons written by Don Pendleton and published by Gold Eagle. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ROYAL CONSPIRACY In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a secret group within the military is plotting to oust the Royal Family. Their next move: kidnapping the playboy prince from a desert warfare training session outside Las Vegas. But Sin City already has its share of trouble, with authorities investigating the disappearance of two park rangers and coping with threats made by an anti-Muslim rancher who has a highly efficient militia of his own. It falls to Mack Bolan to keep the prince safe at all costs. But someone in the heir's inner circle is a traitor, and the agents working the park ranger case are bound by official procedure. When it comes to stopping the fall of a kingdom and preventing a bloodbath on US soil, the Executioner makes his own rules.
Download or read book The Desert Falcons written by Richard Townshend Bickers and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Falcon s Cry written by Michael Donnelly and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1998-08-27 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. Air Force Major Michael Donnelly was diagnosed with ALS, Lou Gehrig's Disease, after his tour of duty in Desert Storm. When the Pentagon denied any connection between his illness and his service in the Gulf War, Donnelly testified before the House of Representatives in 1998, leading to recommendations for studies into the group of symptoms displayed by Gulf veterans which have become known as "Persian Gulf syndrome."
Download or read book Falcon written by Helen Macdonald and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before best-selling author Helen Macdonald told the story of the goshawk in H Is for Hawk, she told the story of the falcon, in a cultural history of the masterful creature that can “cut the sky in two” with the “perfectly aerodynamic profile of a raindrop,” as she so incisively puts it. In talon-sharp prose she explores the spell the falcon has had over her and, by extension, all of us, whether we’ve seen them “through binoculars, framed on gallery walls, versified by poets, flown as hunting birds, through Manhattan windows, sewn on flags, stamped on badges, or winnowing through the clouds over abandoned arctic radar stations.” Macdonald dives through centuries and careens around the globe to tell the story of the falcon as it has flown in the wild skies of the natural world and those of our imagination. Mixing history, myth, and legend, she explores the long history of the sport of falconry in many human cultures—from Japan to Abu Dhabi to Oxford; she analyzes the falcon’s talismanic power as a symbol in art, politics, and business; and she addresses the ways we have both endangered and protected it. Along the way we discover how falcons were mobilized in secret military projects; their links with espionage, the Third Reich, the Holy Roman Empire, and space programs; and how they have figured in countless stories of heroism and, of course, the erotic. Best of all, Macdonald has given us something fresh: a new introduction that draws on all her experience to even further invigorate her cherished subject. The result is a deeply informed book written with the same astonishing lyrical grace that has captivated readers and had everyone talking about this writer-cum-falconer.
Download or read book Falconry written by Louis Agassiz Fuertes and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The National Geographic Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indexes kept up to date with supplements.
Download or read book Supersonic Fighters written by Bill Sweetman and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2008 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the F-16 Fighting Falcon, its uses, engines, weapons, and future in the U.S. Air Force.
Download or read book The Prairie Falcon written by Stanley H. Anderson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skillful hunters beautiful in flight, Prairie Falcons inhabit the rocky cliffs of the American West. These raptors range from southern Canada and northern North Dakota to Baja California, Arizona, New Mexico, western and northern Texas, and southeastern Coahuila, Mexico. This is the first book for a wide audience devoted exclusively to the Prairie Falcon. Stanley Anderson and John Squires cover all aspects of the falcon's life history from mating and rearing young to hunting behaviors and the yearly migration cycle. They provide complete descriptive characteristics for identifying Prairie Falcons and also compare them to other raptors, especially the closely related Peregrine Falcon. In addition, the authors recount the long association of falcons with people, which may extend back as far as 2000 BC. They describe the practice of falconry from the Middle Ages until today. And they assess the threats to Prairie Falcons posed by human activities, from pesticide use and destruction of habitat to disruption of the breeding cycle by careless birdwatchers.
Download or read book The Wandering Falcon written by Jamil Ahmad and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2011 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The boy known as Tor Baz—the black falcon —wanders between tribes. He meets men who fight under different flags, and women who risk everything if they break their society’s code of honour. Where has he come from, and where will destiny take him? Set in the decades before the rise of the Taliban, Jamil Ahmad’s stunning debut takes us to the essence of human life in the forbidden areas where the borders of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan meet. Today the ‘tribal areas’ are often spoken about as a remote region, a hotbed of conspiracies, drone attacks and conflict. In The Wandering Falcon, this highly traditional, honour-bound culture is revealed from the inside for the first time. With rare tenderness and perception, Jamil Ahmad describes a world of custom and cruelty, of love and gentleness, of hardship and survival; a fragile, unforgiving world that is changing as modern forces make themselves known. With the fate-defying story of Tor Baz, he has written an unforgettable novel of insight, compassion and timeless wisdom. It is true, I am neither a Mahsud nor a Wazir. But I can tell you as little about who I am as I can about who I shall be. Think of Tor Baz as your hunting falcon. That should be enough.
Download or read book Wild Flight written by Renee Roszel and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ronda can’t believe the nerve of this pretty boy cockpit jockey who thinks he can teach her how to do her job. After all, she was a Captain in the United States Air Force, a graduate of the Air Force Academy (just like Major Chase Corbett), and her management degree in communications make her at least as qualified as him! But this washout pilot has been reprimanded with a transfer to a desk job—her desk job! And now, to make her humiliation worse, she is HIS assistant. But the liquid lightning in his blue eyes captures her senses. And somehow she can’t keep her abhorrence for this man from turning to desire. Though she has learned time and again that these fast-living, high-flying pilots always end up disappearing into the wild blue yonder, she can’t seem to help herself. Her body betrays her whenever she’s near him, and so she falls willingly into his arms and his bed. When Chase steps back into the cockpit of a jet, will he be gone for good…and will Ronda be forgotten, the smoldering wreckage of her own folly, on the bleak, desert badlands of his past? PRAISE FOR RENEE ROSZEL: "She is delightful, eloquent and humorous all in one." —Rendezvous Magazine "Talented...realistically excellent characterization" —Romantic Times
Download or read book F 35 Lightning II written by Erlend Larsen and published by E-forlag. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents to you the history behind the F-35 Lightning II, not to mention revealing previous unknown secrets and some of the technology found in the air fighter that will replace the F-16 and several other fighters. This book is indeed a golden pearl for aircraft enthusiasts! Erlend Larsen was born in 1965, Norway. One of Larsen`s first occupations was working as an freelance journalist, and in the period of 1993-1994, he worked as a media-and information officer for the Norwegian Battalions in Lebanon. Today, Larsen is working as a pilot at Widerøe Airlines. This is the fourth book to come from Erlend Larsen
Download or read book Birds and Animals in Art written by Louis Agassiz Fuertes and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book All Things Arabia written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By employing the innovative lenses of ‘thing theory’ and material culture studies, this collection brings together essays focused on the role played by Arabia’s things - from cultural objects to commodities to historical and ethnographic artifacts to imaginary things - in creating an Arabian identity over time. The Arabian identity that we convey here comprises both a fabulous Arabia that has haunted the European imagination for the past three hundred years and a real Arabia that has had its unique history, culture, and traditions outside the Orientalized narratives of the West. All Things Arabia aims to dispel existing stereotypes and to stimulate new thinking about an area whose patterns of trade and cosmopolitanism have pollinated the world with lasting myths, knowledge, and things of beauty. Contributors include: Ileana Baird, Marie-Claire Bakker, Joseph Donica, Holly Edwards, Yannis Hadjinicolaou, Victoria Hightower, Jennie MacDonald, Kara McKeown, Rana Al-Ogayyel, Ceyda Oskay, Chrysavgi Papagianni, James Redman, Eran Segal, Hülya Yağcıoğlu, and William Gerard Zimmerle.
