10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOKOTRA»
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The Natural History of
Sokotra and Abdel-Kuri: Being the ...
Being the Report Upon the Results of the Conjoint Expedition to These Islands in
1898-9... William Robert Ogilvie-Grant Henry Ogg Forbes. Botany of Sokotra and
Abd-el-Kuri : Angiosperma;, by Prof. I. B. BALFOUR, F.R.S Pteridophyta, by Prof ...
Henry Ogg Forbes, William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, 1903
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First Encyclopaedia of Islam: 1913-1936
The Indian origin of the name is supported by the statement in the Periplus (30)
that the island included Indians amongst its inhabitants (there are still Hindus on
Sokotra), that sailors from India land there bringing rice, a cereal that does not ...
I am Sokotra now, Resting on the bowels of the shore, watching In the silence as
the goats walk up the mountains Waving is my brother bringing in the new Don't
stop me now Sokotra claimed her evening song Reclaimed thebeauty of her ...
CHAPTER XXIX KALENZIA As we had been unable to penetrate into the Mahri
country, though we had attempted it from three sides, we determined to visit the
offshoot of the Mahri who dwell on the island of Sokotra. Cast away in the Indian
...
5
The Sleeper Wakes: Harlem Renaissance Stories by Women
You taught me not to fear." "They are beautiful. You did not find them here?" "
Imported. A species of the Blue from Sokotra." "Where?" "Sokotra." Joseph
hushed. Something rang in his mind. "Rare things from Sokotra. Rare things from
Sokotra.
6
Vegetation Ecology of Socotra
University of Arizona Press, Tucson Middleton N, Thomas D (1997) World atlas of
desertification. UNEP/Arnold, London Mies BA (1994) Checkliste der
Gefäßpflanzen, Moose und Flechten und botanische Bibliographie der Insel
Sokotra und ...
Gary Brown, Bruno Mies, 2012
7
Kings of Arabia: The Rise and Set of the Turkish Sovranty in ...
Sokotra's aloes were once world-famed. In the Indian book of Kalila and Dimna it
is said of the lion that in his early friendship he is as a mouthful of honey, sweet
for awhile to the palate, but in the end it is more bitter than aloes of Sokotra.
8
Geological Atlas of Africa: With Notes on Stratigraphy, ...
Beydoun, Z.R. & Bichan, H.R. (1970): The Geology of Socotra Island, Gulf of
Aden.– Quaterly Journal Geol. Soc. London 125, 413–446; London. Fediuk, F. (
2005): Riebek, Sauer und Sokotra.– GMit Geo- wissenschaftliche Mitteilungen 19
, ...
Thomas Schlüter, Martin H. Trauth, 2008
9
Geographical Guide to Floras of the World: An Annotated List ...
21. xix, 446 p. 100 pl., map. 1888. Botanical explorations, physiography,
economic plants, phytogeography ; annotated list of vascular (584 species) and
cellular plants. Botany of Sokotra and Abd-el-Kuri. Angiospermae [and] Pterido-
phyta.
Sidney Fay Blake, Alice Cary Atwood, 1967
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E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936
On the other hand Glaser went too far when he described Mehr! and Sokotri as
remains of the oldest "Puntic" Arabic or (Das Weihrauchland und Sokotra, Bcilagc
der Munchcner Allgcm. Zeitung, 1899, N°. 120 and 121 of May 27 and 29) as ...
