Crossword clues for caravans
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n. (plural of caravan English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: caravan)
Wikipedia
Caravans, a novel by James A. Michener, was published in 1963.
The story is set in Afghanistan immediately following World War II. The protagonist, Mark Miller, is stationed in Kabul at the American embassy and is given the assignment of an investigation to find a young woman, Ellen Jasper, also from the United States, who has disappeared after her marriage to an Afghan national thirteen months previously.
During his journey through Afghanistan, Miller comes to a deeper understanding of the complexities and nuances of contemporary Afghan life. His travels also reveal the similarities of human nature across cultural and social boundaries.
The novel was the basis of a 1978 film with the same title starring Anthony Quinn and Jennifer O'Neill.
Caravans is a 1978 Iranian-American film directed by James Fargo based on the novel by James A. Michener. Nancy Voyles Crawford wrote the screenplay. The movie was shot in Iran and starred Anthony Quinn, Jennifer O'Neill, and Michael Sarrazin.
Caravans is an accessory for the second edition of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, published in 1994.
Usage examples of "caravans".
Too many caravans were robbed on the trade roads between Merinath and Sorellin, and none of the goods ever showed up here.
If many caravans had been robbed, surely the plunder would make a fair return.
Apparently he had preyed on nearby farms and caravans using spellbound robbers.
Za, more than twice as long as it would take a single mounted man, but so it is with caravans of any sort.
So their merchant guilds joined in the Guild League, and they built the road and maintain it, and they send their caravans north each year, and we send ours south.
They passed caravans headed north, great wagons pulled by powerful mules, each with its armed guard atop, and a squad or so of men-at-arms marching before and behind the train.
Incoming caravans paid their tolls directly to the Foss Council commander, and he had a treaty to take back to their Table of Councilors.
The first caravans clogged the city with wagons and pack beasts, waiting for the pass to open.
Northbound caravans passed them, one made up of pack animals instead of wagons.
Aris guessed that they stole the animals from the caravans, used them to transport their goods, then ate them.
How many people lived in the western plains, and where were those caravans travelling from and to?
That upper valley the Rosemage had thought of as horse pasture, with its opening to the high plateau above the plain: that would be the place for caravans to come.
Khartazh soldiers came to visit, and found demons abroad once more, and saw the western canyons fill up once more with brigands who preyed on the caravans of the west.
The two Caravans remained astounded, silent, plunged in the deepest despair, while Braux rubbed his hands and sipped his coffee gleefully.
Chenet also took his departure, leaving the Caravans alone, face to face.