Wings Over The Desert

Author : Desmond Seward
Publisher : Haynes Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781844256723
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wings Over the Desert written by Desmond Seward and published by Haynes Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Great War RFC pilot Eric Seward survived being shot down (and an epic trek across the Sinai desert) besides five other major crashes. Told by his son, a well-known historian, his story recaptures the thrills and dangers of the pioneering age of air combat.' Book jacket.

Author : Amadeo M. Rea
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816548455
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wings in the Desert written by Amadeo M. Rea and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a common but often unspoken arrogance on the part of outside observers that folk science and traditional knowledge—the type developed by Native communities and tribal groups—is inferior to the “formal science” practiced by Westerners. In this lucidly written and humanistic account of the O’odham tribes of Arizona and Northwest Mexico, ethnobiologist Amadeo M. Rea exposes the limitations of this assumption by exploring the rich ornithology that these tribes have generated about the birds that are native to their region. He shows how these peoples’ observational knowledge provides insights into the behaviors, mating habits, migratory patterns, and distribution of local bird species, and he uncovers the various ways that this knowledge is incorporated into the communities’ traditions and esoteric belief systems. Drawing on more than four decades of field and textual research along with hundreds of interviews with tribe members, Rea identifies how birds are incorporated, both symbolically and practically, into Piman legends, songs, art, religion, and ceremonies. Through highly detailed descriptions and accounts loaded with Native voice, this book is the definitive study of folk ornithology. It also provides valuable data for scholars of linguistics and North American Native studies, and it makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how humans make sense of their world. It will be of interest to historians of science, anthropologists, and scholars of indigenous cultures and folk taxonomy.

Author : Michael D. Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780929526744
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desert Wings written by Michael D. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger Harrison
Publisher : Medina Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780956417077
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wings Over Arabia written by Roger Harrison and published by Medina Pub Limited. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 2 June 2006, a team of three gliders, one chase plane, support crew and all-terrain vehicles gathered at a dusty airfield 50 km outside Riyadh. The pilots, two Saudi Princes and the British ex-Special Forces officer who had trained them on the Stemme gliders to be flown, were about to m

Author : Cathy Moser Marlett
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816530688
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shells on a Desert Shore written by Cathy Moser Marlett and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shells on a Desert Shore is a fresh, original look at an indigenous culture of North America having a deep and intimate knowledge of the Gulf of California. Cathy Moser Marlett offers a richly illustrated ethnographic work, describing the Seri knowledge of mollusks and their cultural importance.

Author : Niels Sparre Nokkentved
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desert Wings written by Niels Sparre Nokkentved and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desert Wings tells the contentious story of how the U.S. military and high-ranking federal and state politicians attempted to secure a bombing range in the fragile canyonlands of southwest Idaho beginning in 1989. Nokkentved gives a riveting account of the events and the people involved in the controversy and its final resolution.

Author : Rinsai Rossetti
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101575441
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Girl With Borrowed Wings written by Rinsai Rossetti and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunningly written tale of an isolated girl and the shape-shifting boy who shows her what freedom could be--if only she has the courage to take it Controlled by her father and bound by desert, Frenenqer Paje’s life is tediously the same, until a small act of rebellion explodes her world and she meets a boy, but not just a boy--a Free person, a winged person, a shape-shifter. He has everything Frenenqer doesn’t. No family, no attachments, no rules. At night, he flies them to the far-flung places of their childhoods to retrace their pasts. But when the delicate balance of their friendship threatens to rupture into something more, Frenenqer must confront her isolation, her father, and her very sense of identity, breaking all the rules of her life to become free.

Author : Ken Buchanan
Publisher : Northland Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It Rained on the Desert Today written by Ken Buchanan and published by Northland Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the reaction of people and animals as it rains after months of scorching days in the desert.

Author : Eric Forsyth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578652993
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wings Over Iraq written by Eric Forsyth and published by . This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical novel set in Iraq in the turbulent lead up to WWII. The British patrol the oil fields using obsolete bombers. The Germans recruit local tribes to sabotage British efforts, as fascists ascend to power in Europe. Newly qualified RAF pilot Allan Chadwick's first assignment near Baghdad is an initiation into the realities of war and love.

Author : Carolyn Lesser
Publisher : HMH Books For Young Readers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Storm on the Desert written by Carolyn Lesser and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the animal and plant life in a desert in the American Southwest and the effects of a short but violent thunderstorm.