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4 produkter
Brave the Wild River
The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
Inbunden, 2023
306 kr
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In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off down the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious expedition leader and three amateur boatmen. With its churning rapids, sheer cliffs and boat-shattering boulders, the Colorado River was famed as the most dangerous river in …
Brave the Wild River
The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
Häftad, 2024
186 kr
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In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off down the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious expedition leader and three amateur boatmen. With its churning rapids, sheer cliffs and boat-shattering boulders, the Colorado River was famed as the most dangerous river in …
Mythical River
Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the American Southwest
Häftad, 2016
240 kr
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In a lyrical mix of natural science, history, and memoir, Melissa L. Sevigny ponders what it means to make a home in the American Southwest at a time when its most essential resource, water, is overexploited and undervalued. Mythical River takes the reader on a historical sojourn into the story of …
Under Desert Skies
How Tucson Mapped the Way to the Moon and Planets
Häftad, 2016
246 kr
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President Kennedy's announcement that an American would walk on the Moon before the end of the 1960s took the scientific world by surprise. The study of the Moon and planets had long fallen out of favor with astronomers: they were the stuff of science fiction, not science. An upstart planetary …
