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 | $25.65 Driving Women: Fiction and Automobile Culture in Twentieth-Century America 
Over the years, cars have helped to define the experiences and self-perceptions of women in complex and sometimes unexpected ways. When women take the wheel, family structure and public space are reconfigured and re-gendered, creating a context for a literary tradition in which the car has served as a substitute for, an escape from, and an extension of the home, as well as a surrogate mother, a financial safeguard, and a means of self-expression. Driving Women examines the intersection of American fiction—primarily but not exclusively by women—and automobile culture. Deborah Clarke argues that issues critical to twentieth-century American society—technology, mobility, domesticity, and agency—are repeatedly articulated through women's relationships with cars. Women writers took surprisingly intense interest in car culture and its import for modern life, as the car, replete with material and symbolic meaning, recast literal and literary female power in the automotive age. Clarke draws on a wide range of literary works, both canonical and popular, to document women's fascination with cars from many perspectives: historical, psychological, economic, ethnic. Authors discussed include Wharton, Stein, Faulkner, O’Connor, Morrison, Erdrich, Mason, Kingsolver, Lopez, Kadohata, Smiley, Senna, Viramontes, Allison, and Silko. By investigating how cars can function as female space, reflect female identity, and reshape female agency, this engaging study opens up new angles from which to approach fiction by and about women and traces new directions in the intersection of literature, technology, and gender. Amazon |
| | $46.33 Gravity and Angles: A Recreational Guide to Off Road Driving Over Soft Sand 
The Rub' Al Khali in Saudi Arabia, the Wahiba sands in Oman and the deserts of the United Arab Emirates offer desert wilderness which is accessible if one possess the driving skills required. There are few restrictions and it is therefore one of the most popular recreational activities for the expat population. This manual is borne of 20 years of experience in the Arabian Gulf and describes all the skills that are needed to lead novitiates into soft sand deserts and is offered to all those who wish to experience true desert. If you wish, you can go most places in the desert on tracks. These can be well - worn, serving the camel farms or they can be faint impressions, blown over by the desert winds. These tracks usually follow gravel valleys between ridges of dunes, or sabkhas (dried lake beds), or meander through the dunes to link up with another valley. They are used by camel or sheep herders and are often the most efficient way to get around. These tracks lace the deserts of the Gulf. They do change in appearance though, as sands drift over and new routes are found around these but the essence of the tracks will remain, purposeful lanes of travel following the path of least resistance to a known destination. Once initial skills have been acquired, however, it is great fun to cross open ranges of dunes without the benefit of these tracks and there are still areas of the desert that are close to empty (of civilization) and offer beauty, solitude and a challenging drive for even the most advanced drivers. Learning how to negotiate these is a skill that gives great freedom. It is a spontaneous business, requiring the right reactions, good intuition, sound judgment, improvisation and planning. Go forth then, after reading! Amazon Marketplace |
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| Driving Women: Fiction and Automobile Culture in Twentieth-Century America
Over the years, cars have helped to define the experiences and self-perceptions of women in complex and sometimes unexpected ways. When women take the wheel, family structure and public space are reconfigured and re-gendered, creating a context for a literary tradition in which the car has served as a substitute for, an escape from, and an extension of the home, as well as a surrogate mother, a financial safeguard, and a means of self-expression. Driving Women examines the intersection of American fiction—primarily but not exclusively by women—and automobile culture. Deborah Clarke argues that issues critical to twentieth-century American society—technology, mobility, domesticity, and agency—are repeatedly articulated through women's relationships with cars. Women writers took surprisingly intense interest in car culture and its import for modern life, as the car, replete with material and symbolic meaning, recast literal and literary female power in the automotive age. Clarke draws on a wide range of literary works, both canonical and popular, to document women's fascination with cars from many perspectives: historical, psychological, economic, ethnic. Authors discussed include Wharton, Stein, Faulkner, O’Connor, Morrison, Erdrich, Mason, Kingsolver, Lopez, Kadohata, Smiley, Senna, Viramontes, Allison, and Silko. By investigating how cars can function as female space, reflect female identity, and reshape female agency, this engaging study opens up new angles from which to approach fiction by and about women and traces new directions in the intersection of literature, technology, and gender. Amazon |
| | Gravity and Angles: A Recreational Guide to Off Road Driving Over Soft Sand
The Rub' Al Khali in Saudi Arabia, the Wahiba sands in Oman and the deserts of the United Arab Emirates offer desert wilderness which is accessible if one possess the driving skills required. There are few restrictions and it is therefore one of the most popular recreational activities for the expat population. This manual is borne of 20 years of experience in the Arabian Gulf and describes all the skills that are needed to lead novitiates into soft sand deserts and is offered to all those who wish to experience true desert. If you wish, you can go most places in the desert on tracks. These can be well - worn, serving the camel farms or they can be faint impressions, blown over by the desert winds. These tracks usually follow gravel valleys between ridges of dunes, or sabkhas (dried lake beds), or meander through the dunes to link up with another valley. They are used by camel or sheep herders and are often the most efficient way to get around. These tracks lace the deserts of the Gulf. They do change in appearance though, as sands drift over and new routes are found around these but the essence of the tracks will remain, purposeful lanes of travel following the path of least resistance to a known destination. Once initial skills have been acquired, however, it is great fun to cross open ranges of dunes without the benefit of these tracks and there are still areas of the desert that are close to empty (of civilization) and offer beauty, solitude and a challenging drive for even the most advanced drivers. Learning how to negotiate these is a skill that gives great freedom. It is a spontaneous business, requiring the right reactions, good intuition, sound judgment, improvisation and planning. Go forth then, after reading! Amazon Marketplace |
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