In the summer of 2000, a young American college student struggles with cultural hurdles, intoxication and physical injuries as he tries to complete his term abroad design study. Will he overcome these challenges? Can his will power, his family or his girlfriend give him strength? Or will his new found botanical friends in Tangier at the Hibiscus House save him?Sometimes life takes us down roads to places we never wanted to be. These are landscape stories. What makes them landscape ...

Christopher Janus, CJ, the protagonist, is an American millennial, born in the midwest, raised in New Mexico—a hard worker who found his muse in the landscape.At university he grew to embrace landscape, literature and all the fine arts with humanitarian, environmental and spiritual sensibilities.Sometimes life takes us down roads to places we never wanted to be. These are landscape stories. A fun and fast read, only 25k words.In his term abroad design study final su...

In this story CJ is in the United Arab Emirates, Fujairah, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and the Empty Quarter before returning to the United States of America. CJ's professional career is mature but his personal life and an infamous landscape cause him difficulty. CJ, trying to absorb yet another devastating blow in his personal life, takes on a huge 5-star hospitality project, the first of its kind in the Arabian Peninsula's infamous Empty Quarter. That shape-shifting desert landscape, the Rub al Kha...

In this caffeinated story the landscape architect CJ is in Egypt, Vienna, the Jungfrau Region of the Swiss Alps, Istanbul, Bahrain, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. CJ's professional career flip flops—a combination of his own problematic choices and the capricious nature of international landscape architecture work in the Middle East and North Africa.During a fateful Egyptian Sahara walkabout, CJ encounters a subtle yet aggressive landscape that erases both his personal life an...

The young professional, CJ, had begun his career under a bad sign… that got worse with a major family disaster. It hurt so deeply. He tried to hide from it. His career path changed dramatically to a huge new town project in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.Yenbo, CJ's six year project site, was featured as a main location in David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia. Yenbo has changed but the endless horizon-to-horizon, barren, arid landscape has not. That landscape still features naked,...

In this story CJ is in Zurich, the Swiss Alps and finally on his way to Cairo. He has to make lemonade out of lemons. He is wandering.After six years in Saudi Arabia where, still struggling with the disastrous loss of his wife and young children, CJ loses his best friend and his job. Then while on a personal and professional quest he journeys deep into the Swiss Alps Jungfrau Region. There he discovers, in the uniquely intertwining local culture and landscape, hope and a way forwar...

This is the official Holiday FM Guide to Dubai. This handy bitesize guide gives you everything you might want for the ideal trip to the big city. Background information about the history of the City will hopefully give you a better understanding of its origins and make your visit more enjoyable. Get local information about the must see sightseeing places to visit to help make your trip amazing and memorable. The guide also covers tips on where to eat and drink and what to expect the weath...

In 2004 I compiled a book entitled "I Remember It Well", comprised of letters home, travel essays and extracts from my diaries covering a twenty month period, following the completion of my university studies, from 1965-1967, during which time I hitchhiked, youth-hosteled and worked my way throughout most of Western Europe. I concluded that document by noting that over the intervening years I continued to travel abroad and indicated that I was planning a five week trip to Australia in Nove...

Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Bodrum, Turkey.Bodrum is a town on the southern Aegean coast of Turkey, popular with tourists from all over the world and is the site of the ancient city of Halikarnassus, the location of the famous Mausoleum of Halikarnassus (built after 353 BCE) and one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Unfortunately, the ancient monument was damaged by earthquakes in the Middle Ages - some of the remnants can be seen in London's British Muse...

Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Marmaris, Turkey.Marmaris is a tourist town on the Mediterranean coast in the province of Mu?la. It has around 28 000 inhabitants, however the population can grow to 250,000 during the height of the tourist-season.Little is left of the sleepy fishing village that Marmaris was just a few decades ago after a construction boom in the 1980s. Marmaris still retains its charm due to its exceptional location between two intersecting se...

LIVING WITH THE GIGA RICH: A QATAR MEMOIR by Kathleen Ferguson-Huntington puts a positive spin on living in the Arab World, as she chronicles her twelve years teaching art to university freshmen in Qatar.A twenty-first century storyteller, Ferguson-Huntington weaves a wild, entertaining, and illuminating yarn from her daily life among Middle Eastern royals, where the author came to love the young people who are demonized by Western media. Says Ferguson-Huntington: ...

Cities are immortalized in story and stone.The is a book about a city. A place of aspiration, hope, corruption, brutality, change, ambition, family and loneliness. A place where thousands dream of escape. Somewhere millions call home.A city like any other city. But different.The stories in the ebook were created by a team of over fifty writers and artists in just one day, working in Arabic and English.'Stories from Amman' is a 'Project Pen Storylabs' initiat...