A short summary of Jack London's White Fang from www.sparknotes.com

Two men are out in the wild of the north. Their dogs disappear as they are lured by a she-wolf and eaten by the pack. They only have three bullets left and Bill, one of the men, uses them to try to save one of their dogs; he misses and is eaten with the dog. Only Henry and two dogs are left; he makes a fire, trying to drive away the wolves. They draw in close, and he is almost eaten, saved only by a company of men who were traveling nearby.

The wolves are in the midst of a famine. They continue on, lead by several wolves alongside the she-wolf, and when they finally find food the pack starts to split up. The she-wolf mates with one of the wolves and has a litter of pups. Only one survives after several more famines, and he grows strong and is a feisty pup.

They come to an Indian village where the she-wolf's (who is actually half-wolf, half-dog) master is. He catches her again and White Fang, her pup, stays nearby. Soon, she is sold to another Indian, while White Fang stays with Gray Beaver, her master. The other dogs of the village terrorize White Fang, especially one named Lip-lip.

White Fang becomes more and more vicious, encouraged by his master. He kills other dogs. Gray Beaver goes to Fort Yukon to trade and discovers whiskey. White Fang is passed into the hands of Beauty Smith, a monster of a man. He fights other dogs until he meets his match in a bulldog and is saved only by a man named Scott.

Scott tames White Fang and takes him back to California with him. There White Fang learns to love his master and his master's family and even saves Scott's father from a criminal that escaped from the nearby prison. White Fang has puppies with Collie, one of the master's dogs, and lives a happy life.

Into the Wild

In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhikes to Alaska and walks alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body is found by a moose hunter. How Chris McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of "Into the Wild." 224 pages.

The book 'Into the Wild' is based on a true story of Christopher J McCandless, a well educated and able young man from a good family who chased after his dreams and ambitions.

The book tells the story from perfect strangers he met, his adolecence, his adventures and failures leading to his untimely passing. The book also gives you examples of other adventures that have similarities to Chris as well as the author who can relate to Chris's passion for life.

Krakauer went to great lengths to write Into The Wild as accurately as possible visiting places that McCandless had been, interviewing family members, friends, colleagues and others somehow involved in the story. He has said that he was obsessed by the story and researched it for 3 years before it was finished. At one stage he said he had a 'lead' from someone in Arizona, so he got into his pickup and drove from Alaska to Arizona to meet this person.

Krakauer also visited the 142 Magic Bus where Chris was found with Bille and Walt McCandless (Chris's parents) 10 months after they had been informed of his death.

It is a great book and a great story that will inspire.

Ramadan

Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic Calendar, is considered as one of the holiest months of the year. It was in 610 A.D. when the prophet Muhammad was said to have received revelations from God that later became Islam’s holy book, the Quran (Koran).

The Quran (2:185) states that it was in the month of Ramadan that the Quran was revealed. In fact, Ramadan commemorates that part, of the Muslim year, when "the Qur'an was sent down as a guidance for the people" and also for the " judgment between the right and wrong". Another verse of the Quran (97:1) states that it was revealed "on the night of determination," which Muslims generally observe on the night of 26-27

Ramadan in saudi arabia may have a special spiritual atmosphere does not exist in other parts of the muslim world; in order it is contain the home of the two holy mosques, which are revealed in the hearts of believers.with proven crescent of ramadan joy permeated the hearts of everyone in the kingdom, and proceed from their the mouths words of congratulation.

Ibn Battuta

Known as the greatest traveler of premodern times, Abu Abdallah ibn Battuta was born in Morocco in 1304 and educated in Islamic law. At the age of twenty-one, he left home to make the holy pilgrimage to Mecca. This was only the first of a series of extraordinary journeys that spanned nearly three decades and took him not only eastward to India and China but also north to the Volga River valley and south to Tanzania. The narrative of these travels has been known to specialists in Islamic and medieval history for years. Ross E. Dunn's 1986 retelling of these tales, however, was the first work of scholarship to make the legendary traveler's story accessible to a general audience. Now updated with revisions, a new preface, and an updated bibliography, Dunn's classic interprets Ibn Battuta's adventures and places them within the rich, trans-hemispheric cultural setting of medieval Islam.

Ibn Battuta in Black Africa by Ibn Batuta. Selections from his writings are translated and commented upon by Said Hamdun and Noel Quinton King.

Great Explorers of the World: Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, Vasco Da Gama, Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Captain Cook, Lewis and Clark, ... Apollo Mission to the Moon (Junior Classics) [Audiobook] [Audio CD]This audio CD book, alongside with other Naxos educational CDs for children, is absolutely fantastic. It contains loads of information, so adults interest is guaranteed as well as children's fascination. It's a must for curious little minds. Presented in an easy listening format, it educates and enterntains at the same time. Boring car journeys became a highly enjoyable and educational experiences in our family since Naxos CDs were purchased. Being non-fiction, they can be listened to over and over again, offering a chance for the child to remember and/or understand more details each time.

Road Trips

In the last lesson we had 4 themes to choose one of them and research it on the Internet. I chose road trips because this kind of travel literature can tell us much about the world and connection to it, for example if any one want to travel with his across any country that he had read about it, his tripe will be easy because he has background about it to make his trip more interesting than if he has not any idea. Also, road trips tell us more details about the place that authors wrote about it. Road trips literature can tell us about the cultures, society, landscape, food and so on. If you want to tray this kind of travel you should to ignore the high way and take the roads in said the city, village or farms to enjoy and to see the truth about the place that you across it during your trip. If you just take highway you will see same view from the beginning the road till the end, for example motels, service station and so on.


The following books according to http://www.squidoo.com/travel-writing-novels
about ROAD TRIPS

1) Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure by Sarah MacDonald. The early reading of this book can be hard, because after the first few chapters there's a lot of the Western perspective, the whining of living conditions and poverty, the type of scorn you don't care to read from travel writing. I'm glad I read the rest, because like "Through Painted Deserts," "Holy Cow" is about the author's journey. Sarah evolves and changes chapter to chapter in front of you as she sheds the scornful nature of an atheist "too smart" to fall for superstition, and she opens up, traveling through India and sampling all the different religious beliefs and practices as she becomes a humble Theist who learns happiness, learns to grow, and learns that alien cultures can have a lot to offer the open traveler.

2) Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown, by Paul Theroux. Paul Theroux is at his best in "Dark Star Safar," where his skills of observation and his dry wit are on full display. Paul takes readers the length of Africa via overcrowded rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train in a journey that is hard to forget. There are moments of beauty, but there are also many moments of misery and danger. This is a narration of Africa that goes beyond the skin deep to dare to look at the deeper core of what is often referred to as "The Dark Continent".

3) Blue Highways: A Journey Into America, by William Least Heat-Moon. This is an auto-biographical travel journey taken by Heat-Mean in 1978. After separating from his wife and losing his job, Heat-Moon decided to take an extended road trip around the United States, sticking to "Blue Highways," a term to refer to small out of the way roads connecting rural America (which were drawn in blue in the old Rand McNally atlases). So Heat-Moon outfits his van, named "Ghost Dancing" and takes off on a 3-month soul-searching tour of the United States. The book chronicles the 13,000 mile journey and the people he meets along the way, as he steers clear of cities and interstates, avoiding fast food and exploring local American culture on a journey that is just as amazing today as when he first took the journey.

On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, written in April 1951, and published by Viking Press in 1957. It is a largely autobiographical work that was based on the spontaneous road trips of Kerouac and his friends across mid-century America. It is often considered a defining work of the postwar Beat Generation that was inspired by jazz, poetry, and drug experiences. While many of the names and details of Kerouac's experiences are changed for the novel, hundreds of references in On the Road have real-world counterparts.

When the book was originally released, The New York Times hailed it as "the most beautifully executed, the clearest and most important utterance" of Kerouac's generation.[1] The novel was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.[2]

Traveling to the UK (part2)

Ready to go, said my father. I rode the car reward to jeddah airport, my father and brother were with me. It was 2 p.m and we have to be at the airport at 7 p.m and the distance between my hometown 4 hours, so we did not stop during our trip. We arrived to the airport just in time and I met my friends who will travel to the UK as well.

At 9 p.m, we saw my father and brother off and went up the plane reward to London. The distance between Jeddah and London 7 hours. I was very tired and tried to sleep but I could not because I was thinking about many things such as, how I Can live far away from my family and children, how I can live in a new country that first time I will go to and how my daily life will be between new culture and society. I thought more than one time why I put my self in this position. The minutes were very slow and I tried to sleep again but I could not.

We arrived at Hethrow airport at 6 a.m and the taxi driver was waiting for us. We went to Saudi Cultural Bureau to finish some paper. After that, we reward to Derby because we booked hotel in it. We arrived to Derby at 7 p.m. From Thursday to Friday I did not sleep so I slept 14 hours.

Alone Across the Outback

I have read a story like this (From Alice to Ocean, Alone Across the Outback). It talks about woman who travels across Australia's desert alone, decided to face the dangerous and rigors of a six month, 1700 miles with four camels and a dog.

I do not know why this woman decided to travel alone to new place that she'd never seen it. I think it was crazy journey a cross Australia with camels. She said " Some string somewhere inside me is starting to unravel" that is means when she start this adventure she did not know where she was leading her self.

I admire this woman because her achieved was incredible-traveling alone just with camels and shy did that with out much help. However, I think she is strong and courageous woman and she wanted to send a massage to people who prejudiced against women to tell them women can adventure as men.

I love to travel, but I am not that adventurous.