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Following the dissolution of their former band, Wilde Flowers, David Sinclair, Richard Sinclair, Pye Hastings and Richard Coughlan formed Caravan in 1968. Their debut album "Caravan" was released after that year. David Sinclair left the band in 1973 and was replaced by Steve Miller. This performance, filmed at London's Bloomsbury Theatre, marked the 35th anniversary of the group. Caravan delighted the audience with a set comprising exquisitely performed...

Collection of extracts, translations, thoughts, and teachings of the Middle East and Central Asia.

From the days of Marco Polo's adventures in the Far East, the mystery and exoticism of the Asiatic world proved as important to European culture as the wealth of commerce that plied the fabled "Silk Road." Travel along in your imagination with the music that conjures up the sights and legends of that remarkable and extraordinary journey.

Situated near an oasis in Niger{u2019}s Ayar Mountains, the remote settlement of Timia is home to small-scale wheat growers. Once a year, after the harvest is done, members of the Kel Ewen clan federation - a subgroup of the Tuareg nomads - will venture into the merciless Tenere desert to trade their wares. Almost 600 kilometers lie between the paradise-like gardens of Timia and the village of Bilma, which produces salt from evaporation ponds. Bilma...

Contains writings and brief biographical sketches of over fifty African American authors, including Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Claude McKay, Phillis Wheatley, Paul Laurence Dunbar, W.E.B. DuBois, Countee Cullen, and Sterling A. Brown.

Verdugo is a journalist whose father was tortured to death by the Pinochet regime. This is her account of the executions without trial of 75 political prisoners in five Chilean cities, carried out by a military team later called the "Caravan of Death" that was sent out following Pinochet's 1973 coup. Originally published in 1989 as Caso Arellano: los zarpazos del puma, the book is considered one of the key documents that led to Pinochet's arrest in...

At the heart of the Anatolian plateau, our guide visits the first of the caravanserais that dot his journey, as they once dotted the ancient trade routes. The caravanserai at Aksaray is a perfect example of architecture of the Seljuq dynasty, the first empire in the region starting in the 10th century. Then the history and arts specialist Ahmet Diler accompanies Alfred on a visit to the legendary region of Cappadocia, with its "fairy chimneys," troglodyte...

Here, travel writer Shah sets out on a bold new journey across Morocco. As he wends his way through the labyrinthine medinas of Fez and Marrakesh, traverses the Sahara sands, and tastes the hospitality of ordinary Moroccans, Tahir collects a dazzling treasury of traditional stories, gleaned from the heritage of A Thousand and One Nights. The tales, recounted by a vivid cast of characters, reveal fragments of wisdom and an oriental way of thinking...