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Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Mountains of North America written by and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1984 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Palmer
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847865428
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)
Download or read book America's Great Mountain Trails written by Tim Palmer and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 National Outdoor Book Award, this book is a hiker's inspirational bucket list embodied in a lavishly illustrated celebration of our nation's one hundred best mountain trails. America's mountain trails lure us to exquisite heights, from the Atlantic Coast in Maine to the Pacific edge in California and the Northwest. These rugged yet seductive pathways call to all who seek both solace and adventure, whether out for a day hike or an extended backpacking expedition. America's Great Mountain Trails introduces readers to one hundred hikes of a lifetime. The book covers some of our nation's most legendary trails and some that are scarcely known, but all can take us on journeys to remarkable places. Between the ancient Appalachians and the Pacific Coast's uplift lie the Rockies, Desert Range, Sierra Nevadas, Cascade Mountains, Olympics, and more. Beyond are the resoundingly wild terrain of Alaska and the islands of Hawaii and Puerto Rico, which ascend like dreamy visions from the sea. Readers get practical details about the length and difficulty of each hike, along with concise directions to each trailhead, tips about the best seasons to go, advice on permit requirements, and a selection of alternate routes. An appendix offers information about what must be done to protect these special places so they'll remain alluring and rewarding to all the generations ahead. With fascinating text and beautiful photography by Tim Palmer, America's Great Mountain Trails is sure to become the definitive reference book to the most outstanding mountain trails in America.
Author : Frank J. Staub
Publisher : Mondo Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781590348727
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (487 download)
Download or read book America's Mountains written by Frank J. Staub and published by Mondo Pub. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the mountains of America, discussing what a mountain is, the different types of mountains and how they are formed, mountain climates, and plant and animal life of the mountains.
Author : William K. Smithey
Publisher : Smithmark Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780831769802
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (698 download)
Download or read book Planet Earth written by William K. Smithey and published by Smithmark Publishers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Craig H. Jones
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520964233
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Mountains That Remade America written by Craig H. Jones and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ski towns to national parks, fresh fruit to environmental lawsuits, the Sierra Nevada has changed the way Americans live. Whether and where there was gold to be mined redefined land, mineral, and water laws. Where rain falls (and where it doesn’t) determines whose fruit grows on trees and whose appears on slot machines. All this emerges from the geology of the range and how it changed history, and in so doing, changed the country. The Mountains That Remade America combines geology with history to show how the particular forces and conditions that created the Sierra Nevada have effected broad outcomes and influenced daily life in the United States in the past and how they continue to do so today. Drawing connections between events in historical geology and contemporary society, Craig H. Jones makes geological science accessible and shows the vast impact this mountain range has had on the American West.
Author : Daniel J. Sharfstein
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393634183
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War written by Daniel J. Sharfstein and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Beautifully wrought and impossible to put down, Daniel Sharfstein’s Thunder in the Mountains chronicles with compassion and grace that resonant past we should never forget.”—Brenda Wineapple, author of Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848–1877 After the Civil War and Reconstruction, a new struggle raged in the Northern Rockies. In the summer of 1877, General Oliver Otis Howard, a champion of African American civil rights, ruthlessly pursued hundreds of Nez Perce families who resisted moving onto a reservation. Standing in his way was Chief Joseph, a young leader who never stopped advocating for Native American sovereignty and equal rights. Thunder in the Mountains is the spellbinding story of two legendary figures and their epic clash of ideas about the meaning of freedom and the role of government in American life.
Author : John Dvorak
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643135759
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)
Download or read book How the Mountains Grew written by John Dvorak and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible story of the creation of a continent—our continent— from the acclaimed author of The Last Volcano and Mask of the Sun. The immense scale of geologic time is difficult to comprehend. Our lives—and the entirety of human history—are mere nanoseconds on this timescale. Yet we hugely influenced by the land we live on. From shales and fossil fuels, from lake beds to soil composition, from elevation to fault lines, what could be more relevant that the history of the ground beneath our feet? For most of modern history, geologists could say little more about why mountains grew than the obvious: there were forces acting inside the Earth that caused mountains to rise. But what were those forces? And why did they act in some places of the planet and not at others? When the theory of plate tectonics was proposed, our concept of how the Earth worked experienced a momentous shift. As the Andes continue to rise, the Atlantic Ocean steadily widens, and Honolulu creeps ever closer to Tokyo, this seemingly imperceptible creep of the Earth is revealed in the landscape all around us. But tectonics cannot—and do not—explain everything about the wonders of the North American landscape. What about the Black Hills? Or the walls of chalk that stand amongst the rolling hills of west Kansas? Or the fact that the states of Washington and Oregon are slowly rotating clockwise, and there a diamond mine in Arizona? It all points to the geologic secrets hidden inside the 2-billion-year-old-continental masses. A whopping ten times older than the rocky floors of the ocean, continents hold the clues to the long history of our planet. With a sprightly narrative that vividly brings this science to life, John Dvorak's How the Mountains Grew will fill readers with a newfound appreciation for the wonders of the land we live on.
Author : Edwin Bernbaum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108892493
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Sacred Mountains of the World written by Edwin Bernbaum and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Andes to the Himalayas, mountains have an extraordinary power to evoke a sense of the sacred. In the overwhelming wonder and awe that these dramatic features of the landscape awaken, people experience something of deeper significance that imbues their lives with meaning and vitality. Drawing on his extensive research and personal experience as a scholar and climber, Edwin Bernbaum's Sacred Mountains of the World takes the reader on a fascinating journey exploring the role of mountains in the mythologies, religions, history, literature, and art of cultures around the world. Bernbaum delves into the spiritual dimensions of mountaineering and the implications of sacred mountains for environmental and cultural preservation. This beautifully written, evocative book shows how the contemplation of sacred mountains can transform everyday life, even in cities far from the peaks themselves. Thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition considers additional sacred mountains, as well as the impacts of climate change on the sacredness of mountains.
Author : Craig H. Jones
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520289641
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Mountains That Remade America written by Craig H. Jones and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ski towns to national parks, fresh fruit to environmental lawsuits, the Sierra Nevada has changed the way Americans live. Where there was gold to be mined (and where there was not) redefined land, mineral, and water laws. Where rain falls (and where it doesn’t) determines whose fruit grows on trees and whose appears on slot machines. All this emerges from the geology of the range and how it changed history, and in so doing, changed the country. The Mountains That Remade America combines geology with history to show how the particular forces and conditions that created the Sierra Nevada have effected broad outcomes and influenced daily life in the United States in the past and continue to do so today. Drawing connections between events in historical geology and contemporary society, Craig H. Jones makes geological science accessible and shows the vast impact this mountain range has had on the American West.
Author : Franklin Russell
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Mountains of America, from Alaska to the Great Smokies written by Franklin Russell and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1981 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Mountain People written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul King
Publisher : Crescent
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mountains of America written by Paul King and published by Crescent. This book was released on 1992 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffrey B. Lilley
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253032431
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Have the Mountains Fallen? written by Jeffrey B. Lilley and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After surviving the blitzkrieg of World War II and escaping from two Nazi prison camps, Soviet soldier Azamat Altay was banished as a traitor from his native home land. Chinghiz Aitmatov became a hero of Kyrgyzstan, writing novels about the lives of everyday Soviet citizens but mourning a mystery that might never be solved. While both came from small villages in the beautiful mountainous countryside, they found themselves caught on opposite sides of the Cold War struggle between world superpowers. Altay became the voice of democracy on Radio Liberty, while Aitmatov rose through the ranks of Soviet politics. Yet just as they seemed to be pulled apart in the political turmoil, they found their lives intersecting in moving and surprising ways. Have the Mountains Fallen? traces the lives of these two men as they confronted the full threat and legacy of the Soviet empire. Through personal and intersecting narratives of loss, love, and longing for a homeland forever changed, a clearer picture emerges of the experience of the Cold War from the other side.
Author : J. Q. Luo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781364430443
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (34 download)
Download or read book American Mountains written by J. Q. Luo and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this photo book, you will see different mountains in different states. Some of the mountains are very famous and world-known, such as the Grand Canyon in Arizona and the Great Smoky Mountains in North Carolina and Tennessee. This book also covers Mount Shasta in California, and other notable mountains located in the Utah national parks. This book will show you some of the best and beautiful mountains in the United States.
Author : Marianne D. Wallace
Publisher : America's Ecosystems
ISBN 13 : 9781555913830
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (138 download)
Download or read book America's Mountains written by Marianne D. Wallace and published by America's Ecosystems. This book was released on 1999 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses prominent mountain chains in North America and the plants and animals found there, including the Appalachian Mountains, Rocky Mountains, and Cascades.
Author : Timothy Silver
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807863149
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains written by Timothy Silver and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-12-04 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, thousands of tourists visit Mount Mitchell, the most prominent feature of North Carolina's Black Mountain range and the highest peak in the eastern United States. From Native Americans and early explorers to land speculators and conservationists, people have long been drawn to this rugged region. Timothy Silver explores the long and complicated history of the Black Mountains, drawing on both the historical record and his experience as a backpacker and fly fisherman. He chronicles the geological and environmental forces that created this intriguing landscape, then traces its history of environmental change and human intervention from the days of Indian-European contact to today. Among the many tales Silver recounts is that of Elisha Mitchell, the renowned geologist and University of North Carolina professor for whom Mount Mitchell is named, who fell to his death there in 1857. But nature's stories--of forest fires, chestnut blight, competition among plants and animals, insect invasions, and, most recently, airborne toxins and acid rain--are also part of Silver's narrative, making it the first history of the Appalachians in which the natural world gets equal time with human history. It is only by understanding the dynamic between these two forces, Silver says, that we can begin to protect the Black Mountains for future generations.
Author : Stewart Edward White
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book The Mountains written by Stewart Edward White and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Mountains" is a book by Stewart Edward White that is centered on three cowboys who traveled on horseback from Southern California to Yosemite. This book follows a true sequence of events following the city-slicker sidekick character known as the Tenderfoot. How will their journey come to an end? A good book to read to unravel every detail and incidences surrounding their travel.
