Dead Sea and the Jordan River

Barbara Kreiger is Creative Writing Concentration Chair and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program at Dartmouth College. Her other publications include Divine Expectations: An American Woman in Nineteenth-Century Palestine. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Smithsonian Magazine, and other publications.

Sommario

Part I. This Strange Water
1. Some Early History, Travellers, Myths
Part II. Nineteenth-Century Exploration
2. Three Sailors, and a River
3. Along the Briny Strand
Part III. Origins and Evolution
4. The Life of a Lake
Part IV. Further Exploration
5. Gentleman from Siberia
6. A Lake Divided
Part V. The Twenty-First Century
7. The River and Lake in Distress
8. Reclamation, and a Vision of the Future
Afterword

Info autore

Barbara Kreiger is Creative Writing Concentration Chair and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program at Dartmouth College. Her other publications include Divine Expectations: An American Woman in Nineteenth-Century Palestine. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Smithsonian Magazine, and other publications.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Barbara Kreiger, Kreiger Barbara
• Editore: Indiana University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.01.2016
• EAN: 9780253019363
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01936-3
• Pagine: 304
• Serie: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia > Ecologia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia; Viaggi > Reportage di viaggio, racconti di viaggio