A Caravan of Camels

A Caravan of Camels
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!

Cumin, Camels, and Caravans

Cumin, Camels, and Caravans
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.

Old Time Tales

Old Time Tales
Author: Lawton Bryan Evans
Publisher:
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1922
Genre: Adventure stories
ISBN:

Men of Salt

Men of Salt
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

The Lost Camels Of Tartary

The Lost Camels Of Tartary
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.

How the Camel Got Its Hump

How the Camel Got Its Hump
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!

Enamel the Camel

Enamel the Camel
Author: Mike King
Publisher: The Collective Book Studio
Total Pages: 18
Release: 2022-03-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1951412699

"A misfit Camel with excellent dental hygiene shows his worth in a tale that covers a lot of ground." —School Library Journal Enamel wants to be like all the other camels who live in Camel-lot, but his front teeth are bigger than anyone else's. And they stick out. He's the only camel who brushes his teeth—he has to because everyone can see them. Enamel is tired of getting teased for being different. Then one day the class gets caught in a terrible sandstorm...and his exceptional incisors save the day. Enamel the Camel is an upbeat, humorous story about sticking out, stepping up, and the importance of good dental hygiene.

A Compendium of Collective Nouns

A Compendium of Collective Nouns
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.

The Camel and the Wheel

The Camel and the Wheel
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.

Camels in the Biblical World

Camels in the Biblical World
Author: Martin Heide
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2021-07-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 164602169X

Camels are first mentioned in the Bible as the movable property of Abraham. During the early monarchy, they feature prominently as long-distance mounts for the Queen of Sheba, and almost a millennium later, the Gospels tell us about the impossibility of a camel passing through a needle’s eye. Given the limited extrabiblical evidence for camels before circa 1000 BCE, a thorough investigation of the spatio-temporal history of the camel in the ancient Near and Middle East is necessary to understand their early appearance in the Hebrew Bible. Camels in the Biblical World is a two-part study that charts the cultural trajectories of two domestic species—the two-humped or Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus) and the one-humped or Arabian camel (Camelus dromedarius)—from the fourth through first millennium BCE and up to the first century CE. Drawing on archaeological camel remains, iconography, inscriptions, and other text sources, the first part reappraises the published data on the species’ domestication and early exploitation in their respective regions of origin. The second part takes a critical look at the various references to camels in the Hebrew Bible and the Gospels, providing a detailed philological analysis of each text and referring to archaeological data and zoological observations whenever appropriate. A state-of-the-art evaluation of the cultural history of the camel and its role in the biblical world, this volume brings the humanities into dialogue with the natural sciences. The novel insights here serve scholars in disciplines as diverse as biblical studies, (zoo)archaeology, history, and philology.