Nine Nights Djerba
Nine Nights Djerba

Author: Alexis Debary

Publisher: BookRix

Published: 2018-06-07

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 3736807554

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Under-cover agent Monica is on Djerba, in Tunisia, to trace down the mastermind behind the recent 4/11 terror attack, when the dead body of a tourist woman washes up and she's torn into a mesh of black magic, romance, and international intrique that are all connected to the Djerba Nights, the most exclusive nightclub on the holiday island. Alexis Debary's debut work of fiction is based on the 4/11 terrorist blast on Djerba, in 2002. The author studied Islamic Studies and German Literature at the University of Hamburg and has travelled extensively in Arabic speaking countries. She binds first-hand experiences with action and vibrant imagery while playing with the cultural prejudice that began with 9/11.

Element of Blue
Element of Blue

Author: Alexis Debary

Publisher: BookRix

Published: 2021-03-05

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 3748776586

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Under-cover agent Monica is on Djerba, off the North African coast, to trace down the mastermind behind the recent 4/11 terror attack, when the dead body of a British tourist washes up and she's torn into a mesh of black magic, tragic romance, and international intrique that are all connected to the Djerba Nights, the most exclusive nightclub on the Tunisian holiday island. Alexis Debary's debut work of fiction is based on the 4/11 terrorist blast on Djerba, in 2002. The author studied Islamic Studies and German Literature at the University of Hamburg and has travelled extensively in Arabic speaking countries. She binds first-hand experiences into two time-lines with precise action and vibrant imagery while playing with the cultural prejudice of the immidiate post 9/11 era.

Crest of a Wave
Crest of a Wave

Author: Denis Montgomery

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2008-08-25

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 0557001978

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The story of a trans-African journey by Landrover from north to south in 1965. This grand safari by the author and his companion was undertaken when most African countries were newly independent, riding on the crest of a wave. Published now, its descriptions and commentary have historical significance.

Demystifying the Odyssey
Demystifying the Odyssey

Author: Zlatko Mandzuka

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2013-05-29

Total Pages: 493

ISBN-13: 1481790641

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The Odyssey is considered to be the most beautiful literary work of the Western civilization, and Homer the first and the greatest poet ever. The book Demystifying the Odyssey is interpreting Homers epic in a unique and completely new way. For the first time in literature, this book explains the events and phenomena that Odysseus saw and experienced, and which were considered so far as a result of the Poets rich imagination. So, this book reveals how Odysseus went to Hades kingdom of the dead souls; what are in reality Scylla and Charybdis; who were the sirens; how the Island of Aeolus, the ruler of the winds, actually floated; how Circa turned Odysseuss sailors into pigs and other. Besides that, this book also reveals the fallacy two and a half millennia long, dating back from the first historians Herodotus and Thucydides, according to which Odysseus was wandering the Mediterranean sea. It further provides numerous proofs that Homers hero was actually wandering the Adriatic. For all those readers who are familiar with the ancient Greek literature this book will be great news and quite a surprise. On the other hand, for those who have not been quite aware of the old Greek world it will provide great knowledge on the first European civilization. In any case, this will surely be an interesting reading for all of them.

Homer's Secret Odyssey
Homer's Secret Odyssey

Author: Kenneth Wood

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2011-04-11

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 0752463896

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Homer is renowned as the finest of the storytellers who for countless generations passed down by word of mouth the myths and legends of Ancient Greece. Yet, for some 2500 years there have been persistent folk memories that his genius extended far beyond literature and that scientific knowledge was hidden in his stories of heroes and villains, gods and ghosts, monsters and witches. Research now reveals that at a time when the Greeks did not have a written script, Homer concealed an astonishing range of learning about calendar making and cycles of the sun, moon and planet Venus in the Odyssey, his epic of the Fall of Troy and the adventures of the warrior-king Odysseus.

Moroccan Mountain Marriage
Moroccan Mountain Marriage

Author: Alexis Debary

Publisher: BookRix

Published: 2017-10-19

Total Pages: 27

ISBN-13: 3739647698

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Recounted in vivid strokes, this travel essay describes a journey to the village of Chefchauen, nestled in the folds of the Riff mountains in North Morocco. Accompanied by my daughter I revisit the picturesque home of my adopted family to partake in a Berber marriage ceremony. Intrigued by the traditional rituals and caught by conflicting feelings for a place I once lost my heart to, I strive to give an account that is both rich in personal and objective observations of a way of life that is marked by primitive conditions and fierce pride.

I Wouldn't Start from Here
I Wouldn't Start from Here

Author: Andrew Mueller

Publisher: Catapult

Published: 2009-01-30

Total Pages: 551

ISBN-13: 159376359X

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What is a jaded rock journalist doing dodging landmines to talk to mercenaries and terrorists? And what kind of conversation can a man who prefers hunting for perfect three-minute pop songs and tubes of beer have with devotees of fasting and ferocity? Sarajevo. Jerusalem. Kabul. Belfast. Kosovo. Gaza. Basra. New York City. Every place where recent history advertises the stubbornness, intolerance, bloodlust, and cowardice that sully our collective record, there the intrepid Andrew Mueller goes, skidding around the globe from failed state to ravaged war zone to desolate no-man’s-land to try to unpick why we humans seem so prone to plucking war from the jaws of peace. En route, he meets various influential panjandrums (Al Gore, Gerry Adams, Bono, Paddy Ashdown), any number of assorted warlords and revolutionaries, and a sprinkling of peacemakers and do-gooders. He also manages to get shot at, locked up, and taken on a tour by one of the world’s most infamous terrorist organizations. It’s like a Bond film with much, much less sex, and might appear for that and other reasons to be substantially a story of disappointment. Yet it’s a surprisingly sunny book given the mire in which he finds himself.