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Author : Henry Greenleaf Pearson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book An American Railroad Builder, John Murray Forbes written by Henry Greenleaf Pearson and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom H. Watkins
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ISBN 13 : 9780910118712
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)
Download or read book John Muir's America written by Tom H. Watkins and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Muir
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1597266086
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (972 download)
Download or read book John Muir's Last Journey written by John Muir and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I am now writing up some notes, but when they will be ready for publication I do not know... It will be a long time before anything is arranged in book form." These words of John Muir, written in June 1912 to a friend, proved prophetic. The journals and notes to which the great naturalist and environmental figure was referring have languished, unpublished and virtually untouched, for nearly a century. Until now. Here edited and published for the first time, John Muir's travel journals from 1911-12, along with his associated correspondence, finally allow us to read in his own words the remarkable story of John Muir's last great journey. Leaving from Brooklyn, New York, in August 1911, John Muir, at the age of seventy-three and traveling alone, embarked on an eight-month, 40,000-mile voyage to South America and Africa. The 1911-12 journals and correspondence reproduced in this volume allow us to travel with him up the great Amazon, into the jungles of southern Brazil, to snowline in the Andes, through southern and central Africa to the headwaters of the Nile, and across six oceans and seas in order to reach the rare forests he had so long wished to study. Although this epic journey has received almost no attention from the many commentators on Muir's work, Muir himself considered it among the most important of his life and the fulfillment of a decades-long dream. John Muir's Last Journey provides a rare glimpse of a Muir whose interests as a naturalist, traveler, and conservationist extended well beyond the mountains of California. It also helps us to see John Muir as a different kind of hero, one whose endurance and intellectual curiosity carried him into far fields of adventure even as he aged, and as a private person and family man with genuine affections, ambitions, and fears, not just an iconic representative of American wilderness. With an introduction that sets Muir's trip in the context of his life and work, along with chapter introductions and a wealth of explanatory notes, the book adds important dimensions to our appreciation of one of America's greatest environmentalists. John Muir's Last Journey is a must reading for students and scholars of environmental history, American literature, natural history, and related fields, as well as for naturalists and armchair travelers everywhere.
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Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick W. Turner
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ISBN 13 : 9780670592456
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (924 download)
Download or read book Rediscovering America written by Frederick W. Turner and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick W. Turner
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Rediscovering America written by Frederick W. Turner and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1985 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1928 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Congregationalist written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Muir
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1191 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Treasures of American Nature written by John Muir and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 1191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition includes: Picturesque California The Mountains of California Our National Parks My First Summer in the Sierra The Yosemite Travels in Alaska Stickeen: The Story of a Dog The Cruise of the Corwin A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf Steep Trails Studies in Sierra The National Parks and Forest Reservations Save the Redwoods Snow-storm on Mount Shasta Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park A Rival of the Yosemite The Treasures of the Yosemite Yosemite Glaciers Yosemite in Winter Yosemite in Spring Edward Henry Harriman Edward Taylor Parsons The Hetch Hetchy Valley The Grand Cañon of the Colorado
Author : Henry Greenleaf Pearson
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ISBN 13 : 9781293324646
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (246 download)
Download or read book An American Railroad Builder, John Murray Forbes - Primary Source Edition written by Henry Greenleaf Pearson and published by . This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Muir
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1390 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Complete Works of John Muir written by John Muir and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-29 with total page 1390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Muir's literary masterpiece, 'The Complete Works of John Muir', is a collection of his most renowned essays and books that explore his deep connection to nature and advocacy for conservation in a lyrical and passionate manner. Muir's writing style is characterized by vivid descriptions of the natural world, detailed observations of wildlife, and a profound appreciation for the beauty of the environment. His works played a significant role in the environmental movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, inspiring readers to appreciate and protect the wilderness. The book serves as a landmark in American literature, blending scientific knowledge and poetic language to convey the author's reverence for the natural world. As an influential figure in environmental history, Muir's writings continue to resonate with readers today, emphasizing the importance of preserving our natural resources for future generations.
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Total Pages : 854 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Engineer, Car Builder and Railroad Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Klaus Benesch
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042018763
Total Pages : 589 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Space in America written by Klaus Benesch and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's sense of space has always been tied to what Hayden White called the narrativization of real events. If the awe-inspiring manifestations of nature in America (Niagara Falls, Virginia's Natural Bridge, the Grand Canyon, etc.) were often used as a foil for projecting utopian visions and idealizations of the nation's exceptional place among the nations of the world, the rapid technological progress and its concomitant appropriation of natural spaces served equally well, as David Nye argues, to promote the dominant cultural idiom of exploration and conquest. From the beginning, American attitudes towards space were thus utterly contradictory if not paradoxical; a paradox that scholars tried to capture in such hybrid concepts as the middle landscape (Leo Marx), an engineered New Earth (Cecelia Tichi), or the technological sublime (David Nye). Not only was America's concept of space paradoxical, it has always also been a contested terrain, a site of continuous social and cultural conflict. Many foundational issues in American history (the dislocation of Native and African Americans, the geo-political implications of nation-building, immigration and transmigration, the increasing division and clustering of contemporary American society, etc.) involve differing ideals and notions of space. Quite literally, space and its various ideological appropriations formed the arena where America's search for identity (national, political, cultural) has been staged. If American democracy, as Frederick Jackson Turner claimed, is born of free land, then its history may well be defined as the history of the fierce struggles to gain and maintain power over both the geographical, social and political spaces of America and its concomitant narratives. The number and range of topics, interests, and critical approaches of the essays gathered here open up exciting new avenues of inquiry into the tangled, contentious relations of space in America. Topics include: Theories of Space - Landscape / Nature - Technoscape / Architecture / Urban Utopia - Literature - Performance / Film / Visual Arts.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book American Street Railway Investments written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick Turner
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Rediscovering America written by Frederick Turner and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Investment written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dewitt Jones
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 9780912856643
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (566 download)
Download or read book John Muir's America written by Dewitt Jones and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 1981-04 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Ott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135155929X
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Manufacturing the Modern Patron in Victorian California written by John Ott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the example of Central Pacific Railroad executives, Manufacturing the Modern Patron in Victorian California redirects attention from the usual art historical protagonists - artistic producers - and rewrites narratives of American art from the unfamiliar vantage of patrons and collectors. Neither denouncing, nor lionizing, nor dismissing its subjects, it demonstrates the benefits of taking art consumers seriously as active contributors to the cultural meanings of artwork. It explores the critical role of art patronage in the articulation of a new and distinctly modern elite class identity for newly ascendant corporate executives and financiers. These economic elites also sought to legitimate trends in industrial capitalism, such as mechanization, incorporation, and proletarianization, through their consumption of a diverse array of elite culture, including regional landscapes, panoramic and stop-motion photography, history paintings of the California Gold Rush, the architecture of Stanford University, and the design of domestic galleries. This book addresses not only readers in the art history and visual and material cultures of the United States, but also scholars of patronage studies, American Studies, and the sociology of culture. It tells a story still relevant to this new Gilded Age of the early 21st century, in which wealthy collectors dramatically shape contemporary art markets and institutions.
