The Encroaching Desert

The Encroaching Desert
Author: Norman Farmer
Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1990
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780852197813

Explains how humans have damaged soils all over the world thereby enabling deserts to encroach onto arable land.

The Encroaching Desert

The Encroaching Desert
Author: Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1986
Genre: Desertification
ISBN: 9789627156048

The Encroaching Desert: Egyptian Hagiography and the Medieval West

The Encroaching Desert: Egyptian Hagiography and the Medieval West
Author: Jitse Dijkstra
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2006-11-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9047411625

The book is an important contribution to the current debate about the usefulness of Egyptian hagiography as a historical source for late antique Egypt and to the study of the reception of the desert fathers in the medieval West.

The Encroaching Desert

The Encroaching Desert
Author: Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1986
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

Deserts

Deserts
Author: John Anthony Allan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1993
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

The atlas section includes remote satellite images of selected deserts and their environs.

Ascetics, Society, and the Desert

Ascetics, Society, and the Desert
Author: James E. Goehring
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1999-05-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781563382697

Through rigorous examination of papyrological documentary sources, archaeology, and traditional literary sources, James Goehring gradually forces a new direction in understanding the evolution of monasticism. He ably transforms these sources into a clear narrative, thereby infusing the history of Egyptian monasticism with renewed energy.