Books with author Robert Carey

Have you ever spoken to a camel? If so, you surely would have been told the story of Theaban The Camel. Theaban the Camel is a story well known in the annals of camel folklore. It is not known if the story of Theaban and his adventures are fact or fiction, so I leave it to you to decide.Theaban the Camel is a one year old two humped Chinese bactrian Camel on his first ever trading journey to the Middle East. Ling, his given Chinese name, finds himself lost in the desert and befriended by a young orphaned one humped Arabian dromedary camel by the name of Lolo. Ling saves form a pack of wild dogs led by the evil Whaled. After being ridiculed by the other young Dromedary camels for his strange two humps and his given name Ling, Lolo decides his new name should be Theaban. They soon meet a funny and confusing hawk by the name of Ogab ‘The ever forgetful’ who claims that he can help them. Or he knows who can. He just cannot seem to remember where he may be. Together the three must find their way through the desert while avoiding the evil Whaled and his cohorts. Their search is to meet the old dromedary camel named Gemal. Gemal is the ‘Dahlul’, 'The keeper of the trails'. Ogab the hawk is sure or thinks that he is, that Gemal ‘The Keeper of the trails’ can lead them to find Theaban's herd and family. This is the beginning of their many adventures.

This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and ambition that set LBJ apart. It follows him from the Hill Country to New Deal Washington, from his boyhood through the years of the Depression to his debut as Congressman, his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, at age 31, of the national power for which he hungered. In this book, we are brought as close as we have ever been to a true perception of political genius and the American political process.Means of Ascent, Book Two of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, was a number one national best seller and, like The Path to Power, received the National Book Critics Circle Award.From the Trade Paperback edition.