These statements were later collected into the book of Sayings of the Desert Fathers.

2009: Based on Waris Dirie's book, Desert Flower.

There is also a children's book Arnie the Doughnut and music albums The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse and Desert Doughnuts.

In the book, the president is specifically George H. W. Bush, while in the movie the president is unnamed ; the fake war operation is explicitly Desert Storm, and the war actually occurs, instead of being entirely falsified.

* 1901-Nazarene John Diaz goes to Cape Verde Islands ; Maude Cary sails for Morocco ; Oriental Missionary Society founded by Charles Cowman ( his wife is the compiler of popular devotional book Streams in the Desert ); Missionary James Chalmers killed and eaten by cannibals in Papua New Guinea

Slavoj Žižek comes to similar conclusions in his book Welcome to the Desert of the Real.

The book Desert Island proposed the highly detailed theory that Daniel Defoe used the Isla dell Cocoze as an accurate model for his descriptions of the island inhabited by the marooned Robinson Crusoe.

The earliest known written account of squonks comes from a book by William T. Cox called Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts ( 1910 ).

He laid the foundations for the research on sand transport by wind in his influential book The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes ( first published 1941 ; reprinted by Dover in 2005 ), which is still a main reference in the field.

The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes ( 1941 ) is a science book, written by Ralph A. Bagnold.

During his expeditions into the Libyan Desert, Bagnold had been fascinated by the shapes of the sand dunes, and after returning to England he built a wind tunnel and conducted the experiments which are the basis of the book.

She published her observations in the book Syria: The Desert and the Sown published in 1907 ( William Heinemann Ltd, London ).

In his book Revolt in the Desert, Jeddah is spelled three different ways on the first page alone.

He wrote his first play, White Desert, in 1923 ; it ran only twelve performances, but was well-reviewed by the book reviewer for the New York World, Laurence Stallings, who collaborated with him on his next play, What Price Glory ?, which was successfully produced in 1924 in New York City.

Desert Solitaire, Abbey's fourth book and first non-fiction work, was published in 1968.

In 1939 Hasluck established Freshwater Bay Press, through which he released his first book, Into the Desert.

After a trip to the Tian Shan Mountains in Central Asia and the old Islamic centres in the Kara Kum Desert in 1958, Lennart Meri wrote his first book, which met with a warm reception from the public.

He took leave of absence from NPR to write his first book, China Road, ( 2007 ; ISBN 1-4000-6467-8 ), which was based on his six-week trip on National Highway 312, China's 3000 mile ( 4800 kilometre ) " mother road " stretching from Shanghai to the Gobi Desert.

Cadillac Desert, by Marc Reisner, is a 1986 book published by Viking ( ISBN 0-14-017824-4 ) about land development and water policy in the western United States.

* Cadillac Desert, a 1997 documentary based mostly on this book.

Gertrude Bell in her book Syria The Desert & the Sown published in 1907 wrote extensively about her travels across Syria including Antioch & Alexandretta and she noted the heavy mix between Turks and Arabs in the region at that time.

* The 1986 book Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner () is about land development and water policy in the western United States.

Matthew Simmons, in his book Twilight in the Desert, suggests that production from the Ghawar field and Saudi Arabia may soon peak.

In 2003 the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, who had previously chosen " The Hedgehog's Song " when he appeared on Desert Island Discs, wrote a foreword for a full length book about the band, describing them as " holy ".

This glass is probably formed from Libyan Desert sands by comet or stony-meteorite impact.

No meteorites have ever been recovered from paleoexplosion craters, and recent craters containing impact glass have all been produced by metallic meteorites with the exception of Aouelloul crater, Adrar, Western Sahara Desert.

Berber languages are spoken in Morocco, Algeria, Libya and across the rest of North Africa and the Sahara Desert by about 25 to 35 million people.

Although the facilities at the range are managed by the 99th Air Base Wing at Nellis Air Force Base, the Groom facility appears to be run as an adjunct of the Air Materiel Command Air Force Flight Test Center ( AFFTC ) at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, around southwest of Groom, and as such the base is known as Air Force Flight Test Center ( Detachment 3 ).

HARM was used extensively by the United States Navy and the United States Air Force for Operation Desert Storm during the Gulf War of 1991.

However, Bethlehem is affected also by annual waves of hot, dry, sandy and dust Khamaseen winds from the Arabian Desert, during April, May and mid-June.

Many Allied operations in the Western Desert and on the Eastern Front relied on massive concentrations of firepower to establish breakthroughs by fast-moving armoured units.

Under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor, a military column, commanded by Colonel Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, and including two battalions of Sara troops, moved north from N ' Djamena ( then Fort Lamy ) to engage Axis forces in Libya, where, in partnership with the British Army's Long Range Desert Group, they captured Kufra.

Chile has a great diversity of natural landscapes, from the Mars-like landscapes of the hyperarid Atacama Desert to the glacier-fed fjords of the Chilean Patagonia, passing by the winelands backdropped by the Andes of the Central Valley and the old-growth forests of the Lakes District.

A series of coordinated attacks by these Egyptian Expeditionary Force infantry and mounted troops were also successful at the Battle of Mughar Ridge, during which the British infantry divisions and the Desert Mounted Corps drove two Ottoman armies back to the Jaffa — Jerusalem line.

Dance is still used for this purpose by many cultures from the Brazilian rainforest to the Kalahari Desert.

; Xerophile: An organism that can grow in extremely dry, desiccating conditions ; this type is exemplified by the soil microbes of the Atacama Desert

The First Battle of El Alamein ( 1 – 27 July 1942 ) was a battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War, fought between Axis forces ( Germany and Italy ) of the Panzer Army Africa ( Panzerarmee Afrika ) commanded by Field Marshal ( Generalfeldmarschall ) Erwin Rommel, and Allied ( specifically, British Imperial ) forces ( Britain, British India, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand ) of the British Eighth Army commanded by General Claude Auchinleck.

The line the British chose to defend stretched between the sea and the Qattara Depression, which meant that Rommel could outflank it only by taking a significant detour to the south and crossing the Sahara Desert.

In November 1942, Fellini was sent to Libya, occupied by Fascist Italy, to work on the screenplay of I cavalieri del deserto ( Knights of the Desert, 1942 ), directed by Osvaldo Valenti and Gino Talamo.

Ghent was occupied by the Germans in both World Wars but escaped severe destruction and was liberated by the British 7th Desert Rats Armoured Division on September 6, 1944.

The Levant is a geographical term that refers to a large area in Southwest Asia, south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea in the west, the Arabian Desert in the south, and the Zagros Mountains in the east.

He appeared in the HBO Films production of Taking Chance, a film based on a story of the same name written by Lieutenant Colonel Michael Strobl, an American ' Desert Storm ' war veteran.

The expedition moved south into the Mojave Desert, enduring attacks by Natives, who killed one man.

* Valkenburgh, Richard Van Long Walk by Very Slim Man, Desert Magazine, April, 1946