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...This is where the open vistas remain,
the realm of quietude where the great
race does not intrude. It knows nothing
of the continuous, hectic pace of change
in our world. It is a landscape designed
in tranquility over millions of years,a
landscape with no interest in changing...
the realm of quietude where the great
race does not intrude. It knows nothing
of the continuous, hectic pace of change
in our world. It is a landscape designed
in tranquility over millions of years,a
landscape with no interest in changing...
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The areas of the Negev that are included in this book extend from Nakhal
Shikma in the north to Nakhal Faran in the south, from the Dead Sea in the
east to the Gaza Strip and the Sinai border in the west (the areas south of
Faran appeared in the book "Desert's Edge").
Aerial photos afford a wide-angle view obtainable only from on high. Instead
of focusing on people, they offers a broad spatial view of vistas that go
beyond daily human life as we know it. The helicopter provides us with the
remarkable opportunity to travel without borders, to tour to a different
beat without the constraints of paved roads or trodden paths.
We invite you to join us as we journey southward to the diverse areas of the
Negev. Our tour begins in the Western Negev, traverses the Negev
mountains & eastern Ramon towards the Wilderness of Zin, continues to the
Negev ridges, returning northward through the Beer-Sheva-Arad Valley.
Between the chapters of this book are fiveentre-acts offering short
interludes in ourexperience of panoramas and flight. These intermissions
contain five articles on diverse aspectsof the Negev landscapes: the human,
geological, archeological and tourist aspects, as well as the experience of
trekking through desert terrain. Taken together, these form comprehensive
mosaic of the landscape.
At a time that most open countryside has disappeared under the cloaks of
concrete and cement that we have beencommanded to wear as part of the
Zionist vision, what is left to us is the Negev, the last preserve of open
spaces in a densely packed and crowded country. This is where the open
vistas remain, the realm of quietude where the great race to be bigger and
better does not intrude. It knows nothing of the continuous,hectic pace of
change in our world. It is a landscape shaped in tranquility over millions of
years through processes that proceed to a different beat, whose values are
different, and whichprobably has no interest in changing.
Shikma in the north to Nakhal Faran in the south, from the Dead Sea in the
east to the Gaza Strip and the Sinai border in the west (the areas south of
Faran appeared in the book "Desert's Edge").
Aerial photos afford a wide-angle view obtainable only from on high. Instead
of focusing on people, they offers a broad spatial view of vistas that go
beyond daily human life as we know it. The helicopter provides us with the
remarkable opportunity to travel without borders, to tour to a different
beat without the constraints of paved roads or trodden paths.
We invite you to join us as we journey southward to the diverse areas of the
Negev. Our tour begins in the Western Negev, traverses the Negev
mountains & eastern Ramon towards the Wilderness of Zin, continues to the
Negev ridges, returning northward through the Beer-Sheva-Arad Valley.
Between the chapters of this book are fiveentre-acts offering short
interludes in ourexperience of panoramas and flight. These intermissions
contain five articles on diverse aspectsof the Negev landscapes: the human,
geological, archeological and tourist aspects, as well as the experience of
trekking through desert terrain. Taken together, these form comprehensive
mosaic of the landscape.
At a time that most open countryside has disappeared under the cloaks of
concrete and cement that we have beencommanded to wear as part of the
Zionist vision, what is left to us is the Negev, the last preserve of open
spaces in a densely packed and crowded country. This is where the open
vistas remain, the realm of quietude where the great race to be bigger and
better does not intrude. It knows nothing of the continuous,hectic pace of
change in our world. It is a landscape shaped in tranquility over millions of
years through processes that proceed to a different beat, whose values are
different, and whichprobably has no interest in changing.
"Skyline-Negev" is the eighth in the Skyline
series, a seriesthat depicts various aspects
of the country's panoramas inphotographs
taken mostly from the air. Like two other
books in the series, "Skyline-Golan" -
escribing the landscapesof the Golan, and
"Desert's Edge" - presenting the southern
Negev, this book is also a landscape
portrait of an area,in this instance the central
and northern Negev.
series, a seriesthat depicts various aspects
of the country's panoramas inphotographs
taken mostly from the air. Like two other
books in the series, "Skyline-Golan" -
escribing the landscapesof the Golan, and
"Desert's Edge" - presenting the southern
Negev, this book is also a landscape
portrait of an area,in this instance the central
and northern Negev.