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13 produkter
Wallace Stegner and the American West
E-bok, 2008
205 kr
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Wallace Stegner was the premier chronicler of the twentieth-century western American experience, and his novels, the Pulitzer Prize–winning Angle of Repose and the National Book Award–winning The Spectator Bird, brought the life and landscapes of the West to national and international attention. …
Seven States of California
A Natural and Human History
Häftad, 1997
400 kr
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What explains California? To a large extent, as Philip Fradkin's rich, exuberant portrait makes clear, it's the multiple landscapes and the different states of mind that best define America's most populous, diverse, and fabled state. Fradkin divides California into seven distinct ecological and …
Magnitude 8
Earthquakes and Life along the San Andreas Fault
Häftad, 1999
412 kr
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Environmental historian Philip L. Fradkin offers a vivid history of earthquakes and an eloquent guide to the San Andreas Fault, the seismic scar that bisects the Golden State's spectacular scenery. The author includes dramatic stories of legendary earthquakes elsewhere: in New York, New England, …
Wildest Alaska
Journeys of Great Peril in Lituya Bay
Häftad, 2003
353 kr
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Twenty-five years ago Philip L. Fradkin read a book about a remote bay on the Gulf of Alaska coast. The noted environmental historian was attracted by the threads of violence woven through the natural and human histories of Lituya Bay. Could these histories be related, and if so, how? The attempt …
Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906
How San Francisco Nearly Destroyed Itself
Häftad, 2006
324 kr
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The first indication of the prolonged terror that followed the 1906 earthquake occurred when a ship steaming off San Francisco's Golden Gate 'seemed to jump clear out of the water'. This gripping account of the earthquake, the devastating firestorms that followed, and the city's subsequent …
Wallace Stegner and the American West
Häftad, 2009
549 kr
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Renowned environmental historian Philip L. Fradkin reveals the Wallace Stegner behind the literary legacy - a generous teacher, conservationist, and man whose early landscapes shaped his life and character. Fradkin chronicles Stegner's formative years, from the raw, desolate plains of Saskatchewan …
Everett Ruess
His Short Life, Mysterious Death, and Astonishing Afterlife
Inbunden, 2011
394 kr
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Everett Ruess was twenty years old when he vanished into the canyonlands of southern Utah, spawning the myth of a romantic desert wanderer that survives to this day. It was 1934, and Ruess was in the fifth year of a quest to record wilderness beauty in works of art whose value was recognized by …
Wildest Alaska
Journeys of Great Peril in Lituya Bay
E-bok, 2001
399 kr
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Twenty-five years ago Philip L. Fradkin read a book about a remote bay on the Gulf of Alaska coast. The noted environmental historian was attracted by the threads of violence woven through the natural and human histories of Lituya Bay. Could these histories be related, and if so, how? The attempt …
Left Coast
California on the Edge
E-bok, 2011
553 kr
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Philip L. Fradkin, one of California’s most acclaimed environmental historians, felt drawn to the coast as soon as he arrived in California in 1960. His first book, California: The Golden Coast , captured the wonder of the shoreline’s natural beauty along with the controversies it engendered. In …
Everett Ruess
His Short Life, Mysterious Death, and Astonishing Afterlife
E-bok, 2011
446 kr
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Everett Ruess was twenty years old when he vanished into the canyonlands of southern Utah, spawning the myth of a romantic desert wanderer that survives to this day. It was 1934, and Ruess was in the fifth year of a quest to record wilderness beauty in works of art whose value was recognized by …
Stagecoach
Wells Fargo and the American West
E-bok, 2002
213 kr
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Sweeping in scope, as revealing of an era as it is of a company, Stagecoach is the epic story of Wells Fargo and the American West, by award-winning writer Philip L. Fradkin. The trail of Wells Fargo runs through nearly every imaginable landscape and icon of frontier folklore: the California Gold …
Stagecoach
Wells Fargo and the American West
Häftad, 2003
207 kr
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Any account of Wells Fargo & Company involves a history of the more dramatic aspects of the Old West. From 1852 to 1918, the company's operations bisected almost all social, cultural, and economic activities in the Trans-Mississippi West and were conducted in diverse physical landscapes. Its early …
River No More
The Colorado River and the West
Häftad, 1996
317 kr
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Here is the definitive history of the development of the Colorado River and the claims made on its waters, from its source in the Wyoming Rockies to the California and Arizona borders where, so saline it kills plants, it peters out just short of the Gulf of California. Ever increasing demands on …
