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3 produkter
Netting the Sun
A Personal Geography of the Oregon Desert
Häftad, 2001
238 kr
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Carefully woven, Netting the Sun offers a diversity of natural and human stories from a landscape seemingly empty and forlorn to passing casual travelers. This surprising interpretation of south central Oregon's botany, geology, climate, wildlife, ethnography, and history reveals what a truly …
Remote Wonders
An Explorer's Guide to Southeast Oregon
Häftad, 2015
235 kr
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At first glance the landscape looks desolate-a barren realm of basalt rims, high cold deserts, dry lakes, and vast expanses of grass and sage. In fact, it is a place where petite flowers bloom on rock shelves. Tiny organisms thrive in hot springs and water saltier than any ocean. Even some of the …
Atomic Geography
A Personal History of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation
Häftad, 2016
261 kr
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I have spent a career sifting through the rubble, the abandoned documents, the factories and tools, with the thought of saving what remains of water, land, and animals. But water, wind, and root have their way."--Melvin R. AdamsPerhaps the first environmental engineer at Hanford, Adams spent …
