Author: Charles Montagu Doughty
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Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Author: Charles Montagu Doughty
Publisher:
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Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 634

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Author: Charles Montagu Doughty
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Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 720

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Author: Bayard Taylor
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Author: Kimberly Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 9780316251211
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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To a mother and daughter on an illuminating pilgrimage, this is what the desert said: Carry only what you need. Burn what can't be saved. Leave the remnants as an offering. When Kimberly Meyer gave birth to her first daughter, Ellie, during her senior year of college, the bohemian life of exploration she had once imagined for herself was lost in the responsibilities of single motherhood. For years, both mother and daughter were haunted by how Ellie came into being-Kimberly through a restless ache for the world beyond, Ellie through a fear of abandonment. Longing to bond with Ellie, now a college student, and longing, too, to rediscover herself, Kimberly sets off with her daughter on a quest for meaning across the globe. Leaving behind the rhythms of ordinary life in Houston, Texas, they dedicate a summer to retracing the footsteps of Felix Fabri, a medieval Dominican friar whose written account of his travels resonates with Kimberly. Their mother-daughter pilgrimage takes them to exotic destinations infused with mystery, spirituality, and rich history-from Venice to the Mediterranean through Greece and partitioned Cyprus, to Israel and across the Sinai Desert with Bedouin guides, to the Palestinian territories and to Cairo and Alexandria in Egypt. In spare and gorgeous prose, The Book of Wanderings tells the story of Kimberly and Ellie's journey, and of the intimate, lasting bond they forge along the way. A meditation on stripping away the distractions, on simplicity, on how to live, this is a vibrant memoir with the power to both transport readers to far-off lands and to bring them in closer connection with themselves. It will appeal to anyone who has contemplated the road not taken, who has experienced the gnawing feeling that there is something more, who has faced the void-of offspring leaving, of mortality looming, of searching for someplace that feels, finally, like home.

Author: Charles Montagu Doughty
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Author: Charles Montagu Doughty
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Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 694

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Author: Donald Tyson
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN: 0738717592
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Anyone familiar with H. P. Lovecraft's work knows of the Necronomicon, the black magic grimoire he invented as a literary prop in his classic horror stories. There have been several attempts at creating this text, yet none stand up to Lovecraft's own descriptions of the Necronomicon...until now. Fans of Lovecraftian magic and occult fiction will delight in Donald Tyson's Necronomicon, based purely within Lovecraft's own fictional universe, the Cthulhu Mythos. This grimoire traces the wanderings of Abdul Alhazred, a necromancer of Yemen, on his search for arcane wisdom and magic. Alhazred's magical adventures lead him to the Arabian desert, the lost city of Irem, ruins of Babylon, lands of the Old Ones, and Damascus, where he encounters a variety of strange creatures and accrues necromantic secrets.

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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