Author: Alan Dillon
Publisher: Medina Publishing
ISBN: 9781911487333
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Captain Shakespear was one of Arabia's more obscure explorers. Diplomat, photographer and expeditionist, he laid the foundations for relations with what would become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Here, Alan Dillon documents the life of a man committed to capturing and embracing the establishment of one of the world's most powerful nations.
Captain Shakespear
Author: Alan Dillon
Publisher: Medina Publishing
ISBN: 9781911487333
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Captain Shakespear was one of Arabia's more obscure explorers. Diplomat, photographer and expeditionist, he laid the foundations for relations with what would become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Here, Alan Dillon documents the life of a man committed to capturing and embracing the establishment of one of the world's most powerful nations.
Publisher: Medina Publishing
ISBN: 9781911487333
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Captain Shakespear was one of Arabia's more obscure explorers. Diplomat, photographer and expeditionist, he laid the foundations for relations with what would become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Here, Alan Dillon documents the life of a man committed to capturing and embracing the establishment of one of the world's most powerful nations.
Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories and Tragedies
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
The Chin Hills
Author: Bertram Sausmarez Carey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chin (Southeast Asian people)
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chin (Southeast Asian people)
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Arab of the Desert Pbdirect
Author: H.R.P. Dickson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131754000X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 733
Book Description
H.R.P. Dickson had the good fortune to spend many years among the Badawin, living and travelling with them as one of them in their own tents. In this book, first published in 1949, the author uses his great experience and knowledge to reveal all aspects of the lives of the nomadic desert Arabs, from social systems to marriage and children, from faith to food, sandstorms, warfare and hunting. The Arab of the Desert is truly a wealth of information, informed by personal insight and anecdotes.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131754000X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 733
Book Description
H.R.P. Dickson had the good fortune to spend many years among the Badawin, living and travelling with them as one of them in their own tents. In this book, first published in 1949, the author uses his great experience and knowledge to reveal all aspects of the lives of the nomadic desert Arabs, from social systems to marriage and children, from faith to food, sandstorms, warfare and hunting. The Arab of the Desert is truly a wealth of information, informed by personal insight and anecdotes.
The Parliamentary Debates (official Report).
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
Book Description
Shakespeare on the Arabian Peninsula
Author: Katherine Hennessey
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137584718
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Since the turn of the millennium, the Arabian Peninsula has produced a remarkable series of adaptations of Shakespeare. These include a 2007 production of Much Ado About Nothing, set in Kuwait in 1898; a 2011 performance in Sharjah of Macbeth, set in 9th-century Arabia; a 2013 Yemeni adaptation of The Merchant of Venice, in which the Shylock figure is not Jewish; and Hamlet, Get Out of My Head, a one-man show about an actor’s fraught response to the Danish prince, which has been touring the cities of Saudi Arabia since 2014. This groundbreaking study surveys the surprising history of Shakespeare on the Arabian Peninsula, situating the current flourishing of Shakespearean performance and adaptation within the region’s complex, cosmopolitan, and rapidly changing socio-political contexts. Through first-hand performance reviews, interviews, and analysis of resources in Arabic and English, this volume brings to light the ways in which local theatremakers, students, and scholars use Shakespeare to address urgent regional issues like authoritarianism, censorship, racial discrimination and gender inequality.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137584718
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Since the turn of the millennium, the Arabian Peninsula has produced a remarkable series of adaptations of Shakespeare. These include a 2007 production of Much Ado About Nothing, set in Kuwait in 1898; a 2011 performance in Sharjah of Macbeth, set in 9th-century Arabia; a 2013 Yemeni adaptation of The Merchant of Venice, in which the Shylock figure is not Jewish; and Hamlet, Get Out of My Head, a one-man show about an actor’s fraught response to the Danish prince, which has been touring the cities of Saudi Arabia since 2014. This groundbreaking study surveys the surprising history of Shakespeare on the Arabian Peninsula, situating the current flourishing of Shakespearean performance and adaptation within the region’s complex, cosmopolitan, and rapidly changing socio-political contexts. Through first-hand performance reviews, interviews, and analysis of resources in Arabic and English, this volume brings to light the ways in which local theatremakers, students, and scholars use Shakespeare to address urgent regional issues like authoritarianism, censorship, racial discrimination and gender inequality.
The Mizo Discovery of the British Raj
Author: Kyle Jackson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009267345
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
A history of Mizoram in Northeast India from the Indigenous perspectives of encounters with the British Empire from the 1890s to the 1920s.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009267345
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
A history of Mizoram in Northeast India from the Indigenous perspectives of encounters with the British Empire from the 1890s to the 1920s.
Shakespear's Tragedy of Cymbeline
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Report on He [sic] Operations of the Najd Mission
Author: Harry St. John Bridger Philby
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Great Desert Explorers
Author: Andrew Goudie
Publisher:
ISBN: 1900971488
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Desert exploration, like climbing Everest or polar expeditions, is not for the faint-hearted, and many of the vivid tales within this fascinating biographical history end in tragedy. However, the informative and absorbing descriptions of the extraordinary journeys, challenges and achievements of these intrepid figures, are captivating. They risked their lives variously for good old fashioned epic adventure, solitude, fame, the answer to mythical questions and some were even spies. They experienced fear, excitement and hardship in their journeys into the unknown. There are many books on exploration but remarkably few on desert exploration. Moreover, some of the great desert explorers of the last three hundred years are now very little remembered or appreciated in comparison, say, with those who ventured to the poles, climbed Everest, or sought the source of the Nile. Yet, crossing unknown deserts is no less challenging. This volume finally brings these Great Desert Explorers into the limelight, with short, illustrated biographies of around 60 of the most interesting, intrepid and important explorers of the world’s greatest deserts. There is also a brief introduction to each desert region. The many original quotations, illustrations and maps, contemporary figures, as well as plates of a range of desert landscapes make this a colourful, lively and informative read.
Publisher:
ISBN: 1900971488
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Desert exploration, like climbing Everest or polar expeditions, is not for the faint-hearted, and many of the vivid tales within this fascinating biographical history end in tragedy. However, the informative and absorbing descriptions of the extraordinary journeys, challenges and achievements of these intrepid figures, are captivating. They risked their lives variously for good old fashioned epic adventure, solitude, fame, the answer to mythical questions and some were even spies. They experienced fear, excitement and hardship in their journeys into the unknown. There are many books on exploration but remarkably few on desert exploration. Moreover, some of the great desert explorers of the last three hundred years are now very little remembered or appreciated in comparison, say, with those who ventured to the poles, climbed Everest, or sought the source of the Nile. Yet, crossing unknown deserts is no less challenging. This volume finally brings these Great Desert Explorers into the limelight, with short, illustrated biographies of around 60 of the most interesting, intrepid and important explorers of the world’s greatest deserts. There is also a brief introduction to each desert region. The many original quotations, illustrations and maps, contemporary figures, as well as plates of a range of desert landscapes make this a colourful, lively and informative read.