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Citizen Explorer
The Life of Zebulon Pike
Av Jared Orsi
Häftad, 2017
680 kr
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It was November 1806. The explorers had gone without food for one day, then two. Their leader, not yet thirty, drove on, determined to ascend the great mountain. Waist deep in snow, he reluctantly turned back. But Zebulon Pike had not been defeated. His name remained on the unclimbed peak-and new …
Citizen Explorer
The Life of Zebulon Pike
Av Jared Orsi
E-bok, 2013
370 kr
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It was November 1806. The explorers had gone without food for one day, then two. Their leader, not yet thirty, drove on, determined to ascend the great mountain. Waist deep in snow, he reluctantly turned back. But Zebulon Pike had not been defeated. His name remained on the unclimbed peak-and new …
Citizen Explorer
The Life of Zebulon Pike
Av Jared Orsi
E-bok, 2013
370 kr
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It was November 1806. The explorers had gone without food for one day, then two. Their leader, not yet thirty, drove on, determined to ascend the great mountain. Waist deep in snow, he reluctantly turned back. But Zebulon Pike had not been defeated. His name remained on the unclimbed peak-and new …
Citizen Explorer
The Adventurous Life of Zebulon Pike
Av Jared Orsi
Inbunden, 2014
435 kr
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Today Zebulon Pike's name is immortalized at Pikes Peak, the second most visited mountain in the world after Japan's Mount Fuji. It overlooks the town of Colorado Springs, where historian Jared Orsi teaches. Orsi was inspired to take up this biography not just by geography but also because there …
Hazardous Metropolis
Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles
Av Jared Orsi
Inbunden, 2004
759 kr
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Although better known for its sunny skies, Los Angeles suffers devastating flooding. This book explores a fascinating and little-known chapter in the city's history - the spectacular failures to control floods that occurred throughout the twentieth century. Despite the city's 114 debris dams, 5 …
Hazardous Metropolis
Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles
Av Jared Orsi
E-bok, 2004
1230 kr
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Although better known for its sunny skies, Los Angeles suffers devastating flooding. This book explores a fascinating and little-known chapter in the city''s history—the spectacular failures to control floods that occurred throughout the twentieth century. Despite the city''s 114 debris dams, 5 …
National Parks Beyond the Nation
Global Perspectives on ""America's Best Idea
Av Adrian Howkins, Jared Orsi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
409 kr
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The idea of a national park was an American invention of historic consequences marking the beginning of a worldwide movement,"" the U.S. National Park Service asserts in its 2006 Management Policies. National Parks beyond the Nation brings together the work of fifteen scholars and writers to reveal …
Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis Volume 6
Recovering the Lost History and Culture of Quitobaquito
Av Jared Orsi
Inbunden, 2023
1110 kr
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In the southwestern corner of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, on the border between Arizona and Mexico, one finds Quitobaquito, the second-largest oasis in the Sonoran Desert. There, with some effort, one might also find remnants of once-thriving O’odham communities and their predecessors with …
Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis Volume 6
Recovering the Lost History and Culture of Quitobaquito
Av Jared Orsi
Häftad, 2023
297 kr
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In the southwestern corner of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, on the border between Arizona and Mexico, one finds Quitobaquito, the second-largest oasis in the Sonoran Desert. There, with some effort, one might also find remnants of once-thriving O’odham communities and their predecessors with …
