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A Region of Astonishing Beauty

Author : Roger L. Williams
Publisher : Roberts Rinehart
ISBN 13 : 1461663946
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book A Region of Astonishing Beauty written by Roger L. Williams and published by Roberts Rinehart. This book was released on 2003-05-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we approach the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 2004, attention will inevitably turn to the nineteenth-century explorers who risked life and limb to interpret the natural history of the American West. Beginning with Meriwether Lewis and his discovery of the bitterroot, the goal of most explorers was not merely to find an adequate route to the Pacific, but also to comment on the state of the region's ecology and its suitability for agriculture, and, of course, to collect plant specimens. In this book, Williams follows the trail of over a dozen explorers who "botanized" the Rocky Mountains, and who, by the end of the nineteenth century, became increasingly convinced that the flora of the American West was distinctive. The sheer wonder of discover, which is not lost on Williams or his subjects, was best captured by botanist Edwin James in 1820 as he emerged above timberline in Colorado to come upon "a region of astonishing beauty."

The Dublin Philosophical Journal, and Scientific Review. ...

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Dublin Philosophical Journal, and Scientific Review. ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

High Plains Horticulture

Author : John F. Freeman
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 0870819836
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book High Plains Horticulture written by John F. Freeman and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High Plains Horticulture explores the significant, civilizing role that horticulture has played in the development of farmsteads and rural and urban communities on the High Plains portions of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming, drawing on both the science and the application of science practiced since 1840. Freeman explores early efforts to supplement native and imported foodstuffs, state and local encouragement to plant trees, the practice of horticulture at the Union Colony of Greeley, the pioneering activities of economic botanists Charles Bessey (in Nebraska) and Aven Nelson (in Wyoming), and the shift from food production to community beautification as the High Plains were permanently settled and became more urbanized. In approaching the history of horticulture from the perspective of local and unofficial history, Freeman pays tribute to the tempered idealism, learned pragmatism, and perseverance of individuals from all walks of life seeking to create livable places out of the vast, seemingly inhospitable High Plains. He also suggests that, slowly but surely, those that inhabit them have been learning to adjust to the limits of that fragile land. High Plains Horticulture will appeal to not only scientists and professionals but also gardening enthusiasts interested in the history of their hobby on the High Plains.

Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club

Author : Torrey Botanical Club
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club written by Torrey Botanical Club and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains proceedings.

A Taste for the Beautiful

Author : Michael J. Ryan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691191395
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book A Taste for the Beautiful written by Michael J. Ryan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In A Taste for the Beautiful, Michael Ryan, one of the world's leading authorities on animal behavior, tells the remarkable story of how he and other scientists have taken up where Darwin left off, transforming our understanding of sexual selection and shedding new light on animal and human behavior. Drawing on cutting-edge science, Ryan explores the key questions: Why do animals perceive certain traits as beautiful and others not? Do animals have an inherent sexual aesthetic and, if so, where is it rooted? Ryan argues that the answers lie in the brain--particularly of females, who act as biological puppeteers, spurring the development of beautiful traits in males."--Back cover

America's Natural Places [5 volumes]

Author : Stacy S. Kowtko
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313350892
Total Pages : 1039 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book America's Natural Places [5 volumes] written by Stacy S. Kowtko and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-11-25 with total page 1039 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely set invites readers to celebrate the most beautiful and environmentally important places in the United States. Each of the United States boasts numerous special places that are significant for their biodiversity, ecology, habitats for rare and endangered species, or other qualities that make them unique and worthy of preservation. These sites range from nature preserves to state and national parks, wildlife areas, ecosystems that provide a home to diverse flora and fauna, and even scenic vistas. The five volumes of America's Natural Places examine over 200 of the most spectacular and important of these places, with each entry describing the importance of the area, the flora and fauna that it supports, threats to the survival of the region, and what is being done to protect it. Organized by state within regional volumes, this encyclopedia both informs the reader about the wide variety of natural areas across the country and identifies places nearby that demonstrate that preserving such treasurers is of immediate importance to every U.S. citizen.

Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains

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Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains written by and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Black Hills Forestry

Author : John F. Freeman
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607322994
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Black Hills Forestry written by John F. Freeman and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study focused on the history of the Black Hills National Forest, its centrality to life in the region, and its preeminence within the National Forest System, Black Hills Forestry is a cultural history of the most commercialized national forest in the nation. One of the first forests actively managed by the federal government and the site of the first sale of federally owned timber to a private party, the Black Hills National Forest has served as a management model for all national forests. Its many uses, activities, and issues—recreation, timber, mining, grazing, tourism, First American cultural usage, and the intermingling of public and private lands—expose the ongoing tensions between private landowners and public land managers. Freeman shows how forest management in the Black Hills encapsulates the Forest Service's failures to keep up with changes in the public's view of forest values until compelled to do so by federal legislation and the courts. In addition, he explores how more recent events in the region like catastrophic wildfires and mountain pine beetle epidemics have provided forest managers with the chance to realign their efforts to create and maintain a biologically diverse forest that can better resist natural and human disturbances. This study of the Black Hills offers an excellent prism through which to view the history of the US Forest Service's land management policies. Foresters, land managers, and regional historians will find Black Hills Forestry a valuable resource.

Captivity Literature and the Environment

Author : Kyhl D. Lyndgaard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317087399
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Captivity Literature and the Environment written by Kyhl D. Lyndgaard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his study of captivity narratives, Kyhl Lyndgaard argues that these accounts have influenced land-use policy and environmental attitudes at the same time that they reveal the complex relationship between ethnicity, landscape, and authorship. In connecting these themes, Lyndgaard offers readers an alternative environmental literature, one that is dependent on an understanding of nature as home rather than as a place of temporary retreat. He examines three captivity narratives written in the 1820s and 1830s - A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, The Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner, and Life of Black Hawk -all of which engage with the Jacksonian policy of Indian removal and resist tropes of the so-called Vanishing Indian. As Lyndgaard shows, the authors and the editors with whom they collaborated often saw their stories as a plea for environmental and social justice. At the same time, audiences have embraced them for their vision of a more inclusive and less exploitative American society than was proffered by the rhetoric of Manifest Destiny. Their legacy is that while environmental and social justice has been slow in fulfilment, their continued popularity testifies to the fact that the struggle for justice has never been ceded.

Appalachia

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Appalachia written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Astonishing Color of After

Author : Emily X.R. Pan
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0316464007
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book The Astonishing Color of After written by Emily X.R. Pan and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning, heartbreaking debut novel about grief, love, and family, perfect for fans of Jandy Nelson and Celeste Ng. Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird. Leigh, who is half Asian and half white, travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time. There, she is determined to find her mother, the bird. In her search, she winds up chasing after ghosts, uncovering family secrets, and forging a new relationship with her grandparents. And as she grieves, she must try to reconcile the fact that on the same day she kissed her best friend and longtime secret crush, Axel, her mother was taking her own life. Alternating between real and magic, past and present, friendship and romance, hope and despair, The Astonishing Color of After is a stunning and heartbreaking novel about finding oneself through family history, art, grief, and love. "Emily X.R. Pan's brilliantly crafted, harrowing first novel portrays the vast spectrum of love and grief with heart-wrenching beauty and candor. This is a very special book."--John Green, bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down

Searching for Mary Schäffer

Author : Colleen Skidmore
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 1772123668
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Searching for Mary Schäffer written by Colleen Skidmore and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Schäffer was a photographer, writer, botanical painter, and mapmaker from Philadelphia, well known for her travels in the Canadian Rockies and Japan at the turn of the twentieth century. In Searching for Mary Schäffer, Colleen Skidmore takes up Schäffer’s own resonant themes—women and wilderness, travel and science—to ask new questions, tell new stories, and reassess the persona of Mary Schäffer imagined in more recent times. Public and private archival collections in the United States and Canada set the stage for this engrossing exploration of Schäffer’s creative, collaborative, and competitive enterprise amid the cultural complexities of Philadelphia’s science and photography communities, and the scientific, tourist, and Indigenous societies of the Rocky Mountains of Canada. “In this impressive book, Colleen Skidmore uses her considerable skills as a social historian of photography to shed new light on the remarkable life of Mary Schäffer. She knows the stories, the characters, and presents a social history that is fresh and convincing. Skidmore’s conclusion is brilliant and will certainly serve as a catalyst for further research and study of Mary Schäffer.” Donna Livingstone, President and CEO, Glenbow Museum

The National Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Magazine of Western History

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Magazine of Western History written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ozarks- Four Corners Regional Development Commissions, Hearing Before a Special Subcommittee on Economic Development ... 90-1, Oklahoma City, August 16, 1967; Albuquerque, NM, August 17, 1967; Espanola, NM, August 18, 1967; Taos, NM, August 18, 1967; Las Vegas, August 19, 1967

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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1044 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Seeing Silence

Author : Pete McBride
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847870863
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Seeing Silence written by Pete McBride and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world ever more congested and polluted with both toxins and noise, award-winning photographer Pete McBride takes readers on a once-in-a-lifetime escape to find places of peace and quiet—a pole-to-pole, continent-by-continent quest for the soul. We tend to think of silence as the absence of sound, but it is actually the void where we can hear the sublime notes of nature. In this National Outdoor Book Award winning work, photographer Pete McBride reveals the wonders of these hushed places in spectacular imagery—from the thin-air flanks of Mount Everest to the depths of the Grand Canyon, from the high-altitude vistas of the Atacama to the African savannah, and from the Antarctic Peninsula to the flowing waters of the Ganges and Nile. These places remind us of the magic of being “truly away” and how such places are vanishing. Often showing beauty from vantages where no other photographer has ever stood, this is a seven-continent visual tour of global quietude—and the power in nature’s own sounds—that will both inspire and calm.

Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: James, E. Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains .,.. 1819, 1820

Author : Reuben Gold Thwaites
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: James, E. Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains .,.. 1819, 1820 written by Reuben Gold Thwaites and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: