Desert Diary
Desert Diary

Author: Michael O. Tunnell

Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing

Published: 2020-10-06

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 1580897894

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A moving primary source sheds light on the experience of Japanese American children imprisoned in a World War II internment camp. A classroom diary created by Japanese American children paints a vivid picture of daily life in a so-called "internment camp." Mae Yanagi was eight years old when she started school at Topaz Camp in Utah. She and her third-grade classmates began keeping an illustrated diary, full of details about schoolwork, sports, pets, holidays, and health--as experienced from behind barbed wire. Diary pages, archival photographs, and narrative nonfiction text convey the harsh changes experienced by the children, as well as their remarkable resilience.

Desert Diary
Desert Diary

Author: Michael O. Tunnell

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2020-10-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1580897894

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A moving primary source sheds light on the experience of Japanese American children imprisoned in a World War II internment camp. A classroom diary created by Japanese American children paints a vivid picture of daily life in a so-called "internment camp." Mae Yanagi was eight years old when she started school at Topaz Camp in Utah. She and her third-grade classmates began keeping an illustrated diary, full of details about schoolwork, sports, pets, holidays, and health--as experienced from behind barbed wire. Diary pages, archival photographs, and narrative nonfiction text convey the harsh changes experienced by the children, as well as their remarkable resilience.

The Desert Diary
The Desert Diary

Author: Gadi Pollack

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781598261424

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"Brought to life like never before, this authentic story of the journeys of the Jewish people in the Midbar is presented with eloquent prose and stunning visual detail. What begins as a child's diary of day-to-day life in Kadesh Barne'a continues with a young man's account of the wondrous miracles and challenging travails of the years in the Wilderness and ends with a mature man's anticipations as the Chosen Nation stood on the threshold of our promised land.The Desert Diary gives every reader the sense that he himself was among the Bnei Yisrael who left Mitzrayim"--back cover.

To the Desert
To the Desert

Author: Vahram Tatrean

Publisher: Gomidas Institute

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 9781903656273

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The diary of a child in the Armenian Genocide. An unusual narrative, it descibes the fate of thousands of Armenians who were sent not to Der Zor in 1915, but to the wastelands south of Aleppo, as far as Maan and Es Salt in Jordan.

Desert Fire
Desert Fire

Author: Andrew Gillespie

Publisher: Pen and Sword

Published: 2001-03-15

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1473813530

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Forming part of the Royal Artillery's historical series, Desert Fire is the Battery Commander of O Battery (The Rockett Troop), 2nd Field Regiment RA's gripping description of the Gulf War. His first-hand account brings to life the power and destructive force of modern massed artillery and is a fitting tribute to all members of the Royal Regiment who played such a vital role in the desert campaign. Shows detailed plans and maps of events first time around in the Gulf.

Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy
Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy

Author: Aidan Tynan

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2020-06-18

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1474443370

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Aidan explores the ways in which Nietzsche's warning that 'the desert grows' has been taken up by Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze in their critiques of modernity, and the desert in literature ranging from T.S Eliot to Don DeLillo; from imperial travel writing to postmodernism; and from the Old Testament to salvagepunk.

Marshal South and the Ghost Mountain Chronicles
Marshal South and the Ghost Mountain Chronicles

Author: Marshal South

Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780932653666

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In the 1940s, Marshal South chronicled his family's controversial primitive lifestyle on Ghost Mountain, in what is now Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in southern California, through popular monthly articles written for Desert Magazine. This is the complete collection, along with never-before-published photos of the family.

Desert Storm Diary
Desert Storm Diary

Author: Geoffrey Frankel

Publisher:

Published: 1997-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780964535640

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A trained military photojournalist, Frankel was sent to the Middle East in Dec. 1991 to record his Army experiences during Operation Desert Shield and the Gulf War. With extraordinary photos, DESERT STORM DIARY provides a fresh, personal picture of war from a soldier's perspective.