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

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

* KALAHARI-Magnificent Desert, coffee-table book by Erwin Niemand and Nicoleen Niemand, spending 2 years photographing this magnificent desert.

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 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 ".

American consul James W. Davidson described in his 1903 book, The Island of Formosa, how the Chinese in Taiwan ate and traded in the flesh of Taiwanese aboriginals.

This character is based on Long John Silver from the book Treasure Island.

Defoe also wrote a three-volume travel book, Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain ( 1724 – 27 ) that provided a vivid first-hand account of the state of the country.

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

* The Curse of Palmyra Island – free book

The famously abrasive columnist and restaurant reviewer A A Gill in his 2005 book The Angry Island called Stow " catastrophically ghastly " and " the worst place in the world ", resulting in an angry response from the town's mayor.

Two early adventures for the game by Bill Willingham, Death Duel with the Destroyers and The Island of Dr. Apocalypse, used characters that would later appear in his Comico comic book series, Elementals.

" The ethnographic evidence for these claims is outlined in Heyerdahl's book Aku Aku: The Secret of Easter Island.

* August – Robert Knox escapes prison in Ceylon, and details his adventures across Kandy and life in the kingdoms of the Tamil country Vanni in his book An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon.

* The defeat of Caradoc ( Caratacus ) by the Romans is the subject of Henry Treece's 1952 adult novel, The Dark Island, the second book in his Celtic Tetralogy.

* Wye Island by Boyd Gibbons is a book about a development that James Rouse planned but never built on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

Rem Koolhaas and the Office of Metropolitan Architecture proposed two projects for the Island in his book " Delirious New York ": the Welfare Island Hotel and the Roosevelt Island Redevelopment Proposal ( both in 1975-76 ).

Although commonly referred to as simply Robinson Crusoe, the book ’ s complete, original title as it appears on the title page of the first edition is The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque ; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself.

Pictorial map of Crusoe's island, aka " Island of Despair ," showing incidents from the book

The book is a parody of the Whiggish style of history teaching in English schools at the time, in particular of Our Island Story.

The book described the Island of California as being west of the Indies, " very close to the side of the Terrestrial Paradise ; and it is peopled by black women, without any man among them, for they live in the manner of Amazons.

The book takes place on Long Island, while the film is set in Detroit.

Conversely, in the 1970's parts of Baffin Island failed to have the usual ice-free period in the summer, according to the book Crown of The World by Cora Cheney, 1979 Dodd, Merad, and Company New York.

He even ventured to England to converse with Harold Tom Wilkins, the author of Captain Kidd and His Skeleton Island, believing he had found a link between Oak Island and a map in Wilkins's book.

Man-made structures under Oak Island do in fact exist as discussed in many books, including a book written by Lee Lamb, daughter of Robert Restall.

In his 1953 book, The Oak Island Enigma: A History and Inquiry Into the Origin of the Money Pit, Penn Leary believed that English philosopher Francis Bacon used the pit to hide documents proving him to be the author of William Shakespeare's plays.

Mark Finnan in his book Oak Island Secrets noted that many Masonic markings were found on Oak Island and pointed out that the shaft or pit and its mysterious contents seemed to replicate aspects of a Masonic initiation rite involving a hidden vault containing a sacred treasure.