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Desert Sonorous
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Author : Sean Bernard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Desert Sonorous written by Sean Bernard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with American literature categories.
Sonorous Desert
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Author : Kim Haines-Eitzen
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2024-04-16
Sonorous Desert written by Kim Haines-Eitzen and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-16 with Religion categories.
Enduring lessons from the desert soundscapes that shaped the Christian monastic tradition For the hermits and communal monks of antiquity, the desert was a place to flee the cacophony of ordinary life in order to hear and contemplate the voice of God. But these monks discovered something surprising in their harsh desert surroundings: far from empty and silent, the desert is richly reverberant. Sonorous Desert shares the stories and sayings of these ancient spiritual seekers, tracing how the ambient sounds of wind, thunder, water, and animals shaped the emergence and development of early Christian monasticism. Kim Haines-Eitzen draws on ancient monastic texts from Egypt, Sinai, and Palestine to explore how noise offered desert monks an opportunity to cultivate inner quietude, and shows how the desert quests of ancient monastics offer profound lessons for us about what it means to search for silence. Drawing on her own experiences making field recordings in the deserts of North America and Israel, she reveals how mountains, canyons, caves, rocky escarpments, and lush oases are deeply resonant places. Haines-Eitzen discusses how the desert is a place of paradoxes, both silent and noisy, pulling us toward contemplative isolation yet giving rise to vibrant collectives of fellow seekers. Accompanied by Haines-Eitzen’s evocative audio recordings of desert environments, Sonorous Desert reveals how desert sounds taught ancient monks about solitude, silence, and the life of community, and how they can help us understand ourselves if we slow down and listen.
Desert Queen
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Author : Janet Wallach
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-11-12
Desert Queen written by Janet Wallach and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The life of Gertrude Bell is now the subject of the major motion picture Queen of the Desert, starring Nicole Kidman, James Franco and Damian Lewis Turning away from privileged Victorian Britain, Gertrude Bell explored, mapped and excavated the world of the Arabs, winning the trust of Arab sheiks and chieftains along the way. When the First World War erupted and the British needed the loyalty of Arab leaders, Gertrude Bell provided the intelligence for T.E. Lawrence's military activities. After the war, she played a major role in creating the modern Middle East, and was generally considered the most powerful woman in the British Empire. In this major reassessment of Bell's life, Janet Wallach reveals a woman whose achievements and independent spirit were especially remarkable for her times, and who brought the same passion and intensity to her explorations as she did to her rich and romantic life.
Daughter Of The Desert
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Author : Georgina Howell
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2012-12-13
Daughter Of The Desert written by Georgina Howell and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-13 with History categories.
Archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer, mountaineer and nation builder, Gertrude Bell was born in 1868 into a world of privilege and plenty, but she turned her back on all that for her passion for the Arab peoples, becoming the architect of the independent kingdom of Iraq and seeing its first king Faisal safely onto the throne in 1921. Daughter of the Desert is her story, vividly told and impeccably researched, drawing on Gertrude’s own writings, both published and unpublished. It is a compelling portrait of a woman who transcended the restrictions of her class and age and in so doing created a remarkable and enduring legacy. ‘What a great Oscar-laden biopic this will make ...the combination of epic scenes and personal drama makes Georgina Howell’s saga a winner’ Daily Express 'Howell sketches in the gradations of colour and emotion that have been lacking in hitherto monochrome accounts of Bell's life ... Exemplary' Sunday Times ‘Riveting ... few women have had a life more worth reading about.’ Diana Athill, Literary Review
We Were There
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Author : Robert Fox
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2010-12-09
We Were There written by Robert Fox and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-09 with History categories.
What was it like to be there at the very moment when great events took place; when great figures strode onto the world stage; when the wonderful, the terrible, the diverting and the just plain curious happened? In this acclaimed collection of eyewitness reportage, Robert Fox brings together accounts from soldiers, journalists, poets, scientists, adventurers, chance bystanders and many more to create a vivid, compelling history of the twentieth century as it happened. Covering two world wars, revolutions, discoveries and the rise and fall of empires across the globe, We Were There reports on the defining moments of the last hundred or so years, from the turn of the last century through the Wall Street Crash and D-Day, to the Vietnam War, Tiananmen Square and 9/11. These evocative reports from around the world - by figures ranging from Vera Brittain to Neil Armstrong and Rosa Parks to the Baghdad blogger - show that the very best eyewitness reporting is as gripping as it is invaluable.
The Weavers
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Author : Gerhart Hauptmann
language : en
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Release Date : 1916
The Weavers written by Gerhart Hauptmann and has been published by ReadHowYouWant.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1916 with Translation of Die weber categories.
The Weavers
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language : en
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
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The Complete Works Of Gilbert Parker
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Author : Gilbert Parker
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
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The Complete Works Of Gilbert Parker written by Gilbert Parker and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
The Poetics And Politics Of The Desert
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Author : Catrin Gersdorf
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2009-01-01
The Poetics And Politics Of The Desert written by Catrin Gersdorf and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Social Science categories.
This study explores the ways in which the desert, as topographical space and cultural presence, shaped and reshaped concepts and images of America. Once a territory outside the geopolitical and cultural borders of the United States, the deserts of the West and Southwest have since emerged as canonical American landscapes. Drawing on the critical concepts of American studies and on questions and problems raised in recent debates on ecocriticism, The Poetics and Politics of the Desert investigates the spatial rhetoric of America as it developed in view of arid landscapes since the mid-nineteenth century. Gersdorf argues that the integration of the desert into America catered to the entire spectrum of ideological and political responses to the history and culture of the US, maintaining that the Americanization of this landscape was and continues to be staged within the idiomatic parameters and in reaction to the discursive authority of four spatial metaphors: garden, wilderness, Orient, and heterotopia.
Daughter Of The Desert
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Author : Josephine Kamm
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
Daughter Of The Desert written by Josephine Kamm and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with Colonial administrators categories.
