A Caravan Of Camels
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Author | : Christopher Robbins |
Publisher | : Familius |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 2021-03-02 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781641702706 |
An A through Z look at the punny names of animal groups with adorable illustrations for each!
Author | : Gary Paul Nabhan |
Publisher | : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2020-09-22 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 0520379241 |
Gary Paul Nabhan takes the reader on a vivid and far-ranging journey across time and space in this fascinating look at the relationship between the spice trade and culinary imperialism. Drawing on his own family’s history as spice traders, as well as travel narratives, historical accounts, and his expertise as an ethnobotanist, Nabhan describes the critical roles that Semitic peoples and desert floras had in setting the stage for globalized spice trade. Traveling along four prominent trade routes—the Silk Road, the Frankincense Trail, the Spice Route, and the Camino Real (for chiles and chocolate)—Nabhan follows the caravans of itinerant spice merchants from the frankincense-gathering grounds and ancient harbors of the Arabian Peninsula to the port of Zayton on the China Sea to Santa Fe in the southwest United States. His stories, recipes, and linguistic analyses of cultural diffusion routes reveal the extent to which aromatics such as cumin, cinnamon, saffron, and peppers became adopted worldwide as signature ingredients of diverse cuisines. Cumin, Camels, and Caravans demonstrates that two particular desert cultures often depicted in constant conflict—Arabs and Jews—have spent much of their history collaborating in the spice trade and suggests how a more virtuous multicultural globalized society may be achieved in the future.
Author | : John Hare |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2015-04-02 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1408707322 |
John Hare has made three expeditions to the Mongolian and Chinese Gobi deserts, the first in 1993 with Russian scientists and the second and third with Chinese scientists in 1995 and 1996. The book records the amazing adventures he has experienced on those expeditions and will record details of the 30-day walk on foot in the formidable Kum Tagh sand dunes in the spring of 1997. He is the first recorded foreigner to have crossed the Gashun Gobi from north to south. The expeditions were primarily concerned with tracking down the mysterious wild Bactrian camel 'camelus bactrianus ferus' which lives in the heartland of the desert and is the ancestor of all domestic Bactrian stock. There are under a thousand left in the world and the wild Bactrian camel is more endangered than the giant Panda. This is John Hare's magnificent account of a formidable feat of modern exploration.
Author | : Lawton Bryan Evans |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Adventure stories |
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Author | : Michael Benanav |
Publisher | : Lyons Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-04 |
Genre | : Caravans |
ISBN | : 9781599211640 |
Barnes & Noble "Discover Great New Writers" Seasonal PickAn American's life-or-death adventure to the salt mines of the Sahara Desert
Author | : Woop Studios |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-09-17 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9781452108230 |
This illustrated guide compiles over 2,000 collective nouns and brings them to life in stunningly colorful, graphic artwork from the design dynamos at Woop Studios. Chock-full of treasures of the English language, the diversity of terms collected here covers topics from plants and animals (a parade of elephants, an embarrassment of pandas) to people and things (a pomposity of professors, an exultation of fireworks) and range from the familiar (a pride of lions) to the downright obscure (an ooze of amoebas). Pronunciations, definitions, etymologies, and historical anecdotes make this beautiful book an entertaining read, a standout reference, and a visual treat. Language lovers and art appreciators alike will be captivated by this gem, rich in word and image.
Author | : Janet Graber |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 45 |
Release | : 2009-08-18 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0805078347 |
Muktar, an eleven-year-old refugee living in a Kenyan orphanage, dreams of tending camels again, as he did with his nomadic family in Somalia, and has a chance to prove himself when a traveling librarian with an injured camel arrives at his school.
Author | : Justine Fontes |
Publisher | : Golden Books |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2001-06-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780307960191 |
Witty stories from around the world, and by the great writer Rudyard Kipling, "explain" how the camel got its hump. Fascinating facts about the camel round out this colorful book!
Author | : Francesca Simon |
Publisher | : Gullane Children's Books |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781899607594 |
Calamity, a camel...trades in her heavy packs for a colder climate and skis and soon yearns for her former life....It's a particularly easy lesson, learned without fuss or tension, depicted in Busby's cartoonish illustrations."--"Kirkus Reviews." "A camel who complains constantly about her personal comfort provides an opportunity for comic moralizing in this quirky tale....Busby's relaxed, insouciant drawings are bright and cheery, and she has a witty sense of composition."--"Publishers Weekly." ..".illustrated with light-hearted pen-and-ink and watercolor artwork, with animals trudging, mugging, and cavorting...Throughout, the facial expressions on Calamity and her friends manage to be both very camel-like and very funny."--"School Library Journal."
Author | : Richard W. Bulliet |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780231072359 |
Why, for many centuries, was the wheel abandoned in the Middle East in favor of the camel as a means of transport? This richly illustrated study explains this anomaly. Drawing on archaeology, art, technology, anthropology, linguistics, and camel husbandry, Bulliet explores the implications for the region's economic and social development during the Middle Ages and into modern times.