The Desert Diary

The Desert Diary
Author: Gadi Pollack
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Exodus, The
ISBN: 9781598261424

"Brought to life like never before, this authentic story of the journeys of the Jewish people in the Midbar is presented with eloquent prose and stunning visual detail. What begins as a child's diary of day-to-day life in Kadesh Barne'a continues with a young man's account of the wondrous miracles and challenging travails of the years in the Wilderness and ends with a mature man's anticipations as the Chosen Nation stood on the threshold of our promised land.The Desert Diary gives every reader the sense that he himself was among the Bnei Yisrael who left Mitzrayim"--back cover.

Desert Diary

Desert Diary
Author: Michael O. Tunnell
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1632896133

A moving primary source sheds light on the experience of Japanese American children imprisoned in a World War II internment camp. A classroom diary created by Japanese American children paints a vivid picture of daily life in a so-called "internment camp." Mae Yanagi was eight years old when she started school at Topaz Camp in Utah. She and her third-grade classmates began keeping an illustrated diary, full of details about schoolwork, sports, pets, holidays, and health--as experienced from behind barbed wire. Diary pages, archival photographs, and narrative nonfiction text convey the harsh changes experienced by the children, as well as their remarkable resilience.

Desert Diary

Desert Diary
Author: Michael O. Tunnell
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1580897894

A moving primary source sheds light on the experience of Japanese American children imprisoned in a World War II internment camp. A classroom diary created by Japanese American children paints a vivid picture of daily life in a so-called "internment camp." Mae Yanagi was eight years old when she started school at Topaz Camp in Utah. She and her third-grade classmates began keeping an illustrated diary, full of details about schoolwork, sports, pets, holidays, and health--as experienced from behind barbed wire. Diary pages, archival photographs, and narrative nonfiction text convey the harsh changes experienced by the children, as well as their remarkable resilience.

To the Desert

To the Desert
Author: Vahram Tatrean
Publisher: Gomidas Institute
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781903656273

The diary of a child in the Armenian Genocide. An unusual narrative, it descibes the fate of thousands of Armenians who were sent not to Der Zor in 1915, but to the wastelands south of Aleppo, as far as Maan and Es Salt in Jordan.

Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy

Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy
Author: Aidan Tynan
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2020-06-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1474443370

Aidan explores the ways in which Nietzsche's warning that 'the desert grows' has been taken up by Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze in their critiques of modernity, and the desert in literature ranging from T.S Eliot to Don DeLillo; from imperial travel writing to postmodernism; and from the Old Testament to salvagepunk.

Marshal South and the Ghost Mountain Chronicles

Marshal South and the Ghost Mountain Chronicles
Author: Marshal South
Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780932653666

In the 1940s, Marshal South chronicled his family's controversial primitive lifestyle on Ghost Mountain, in what is now Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in southern California, through popular monthly articles written for Desert Magazine. This is the complete collection, along with never-before-published photos of the family.

Desert Storm Diary

Desert Storm Diary
Author: Geoffrey Frankel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997-11
Genre: Persian Gulf War, 1991
ISBN: 9780964535640

A trained military photojournalist, Frankel was sent to the Middle East in Dec. 1991 to record his Army experiences during Operation Desert Shield and the Gulf War. With extraordinary photos, DESERT STORM DIARY provides a fresh, personal picture of war from a soldier's perspective.

Diamond in the Desert

Diamond in the Desert
Author: Susan Stephens
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2013-05-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0373131550

Breathless in a Bedouin tent With the future of the Skavanga diamond mine in jeopardy, heiress Britt Skavanga needs an injection of cash—fast. She finds it in the mysterious Arabian investor known only as Emir…. Britt travels to the desert kingdom of Kareshi to confront her arrogant benefactor. If diamonds are in Britt's blood, then the scorching desert sand runs through Sheikh Sharif al Kareshi's. He's determined to show arctic beauty Britt how things are really done in Kareshi, including how hot nights in the desert can be….

The Man in the Desert

The Man in the Desert
Author: Tom Lomas
Publisher: Freedom Ministries, Inc.
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1999-12-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781585008803

Jake Wardrop's Diary

Jake Wardrop's Diary
Author: George Forty
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2009-11-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1445623560

A gritty, true-life story of brutal tank warfare in the Second World War.