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Journeys Into Northern Pennsylvania And The State Of New York
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Book Synopsis New Yorks Pennsylvania Stations by : Hilary Ballon
Download or read book New Yorks Pennsylvania Stations written by Hilary Ballon and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002-06-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recounts the heroic story of a public landmark: the masterpiece by McKim, Mead & White that opened in 1910, its tragic demolition in the 1960s, and the dazzling new station by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, due to open in 2005.".
Book Synopsis Outbound Journeys in Pennsylvania: A Guide to Natural Places for Individual and Group Outings by :
Download or read book Outbound Journeys in Pennsylvania: A Guide to Natural Places for Individual and Group Outings written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes state parks, nature sanctuaries, county parks, environmental education centers, and state forest natural areas in each region of the state
Book Synopsis Rail-Trails Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York by : Rails-to-Trails Conservancy
Download or read book Rail-Trails Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York written by Rails-to-Trails Conservancy and published by Wilderness Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the country, more than 1,600 unused railroad corridors have been converted to level, public, multiuse trails, where people can enjoy a fitness run, a leisurely bike ride, or a stroll with the family. In this newest addition to the popular series, the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy presents the Northeast's finest rail-trails. Rail-Trails Northeast covers one hundred of New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania's rail-trails. With a rich industrial and passenger rail history, the Northeast is one of the densest rail-trail regions in the country. Rural, suburban, or urban, rail-trails serve as the backbone of an impressive trail system. This two-color book includes succinct descriptions of each trail from start to finish, plus at-a-glance summary information indicating permitted uses, surface type, length, and directions to trailheads for each trail. Every trip has a detailed map that includes start and end points, trailhead, parking, restroom facilities, and other amenities.
Book Synopsis More Outbound Journeys in Pennsylvania: A Guide to Natural Places for Individual and Group Outings by :
Download or read book More Outbound Journeys in Pennsylvania: A Guide to Natural Places for Individual and Group Outings written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated guidebook that describes forty-nine natural places in Pennsylvania to explore and enjoy. In this sequel to the popular guidebook Outbound Journeys in Pennsylvania, Marcia Bonta describes forty-nine new outstanding natural places in Pennsylvania, featuring their old-growth forests, scenic rivers, spectacular waterfalls, rare botanical localities, outstanding wetlands, unique geological formations, endangered ecosystems, and special birdwatching areas. The book is divided into three sections--Eastern, Central, and Western Pennsylvania--and covers unique natural features in state parks, state forests, private nature sanctuaries, state game lands, county parks, environmental education centers, and a National Military Park. Each chapter discusses the flora and fauna of the site, as well as its unique features and also contains historical information so that people can learn about Pennsylvania's natural heritage without necessarily visiting the places. Bonta gives precise directions on how to reach each area, most of which are easily accessible from the major population centers of the state. In addition, she offers complete information on each site, including the best trails to follow, telephone numbers, hours, availability of group tours, and admission charges. A special section on sources and the detailed bibliography give readers more information on how to obtain maps and books that will add to their appreciation and knowledge of the places and natural history covered in the book. Most of the outings are not too strenuous and are ideal for families and groups of all kinds and ages. Aimed at a broad audience of naturalists, both armchair and active, More Outbound Journeys in Pennsylvania will also interest birdwatchers, hikers, campers, fishermen, hunters, canoeists, and wildflower and plant enthusiasts. Anyone who is interested in outdoor Pennsylvania can use this book to discover and enjoy the natural beauty of the Keystone State.
Book Synopsis The Literary Quest for an American National Character by : Finn Pollard
Download or read book The Literary Quest for an American National Character written by Finn Pollard and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2009 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sections of this volume are entitled: 'A Farmer Asks a Question and a Scientist Creates a Model', 'Hugh Henry Brackenridge and the Dogma of Balance', 'The Defining Moment: Washington Irving and a History of New York', 'The Fragments: Minor Writers (c1810-1824)', and 'The Illusion Ascendant'.
Book Synopsis Journeys Into Emptiness by : Robert Jingen Gunn
Download or read book Journeys Into Emptiness written by Robert Jingen Gunn and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Journeys into Emptiness traces the lives of three famous religious seekers and their quests for personal transcendence. Dogen, a thirteenth-century Japanese Zen master, experienced emptiness in wordless meditation - the practice of zazen that spread in time from the Eastern world to the West. Thomas Merton was a twentieth-century Catholic monk whose experience of personal homelessness brought him to explore the tension that lies between solitude and community. Carl Jung, raised by a pious father and a psychologically unbalanced mother, was driven to understand the structure of the psyche, including the male and female elements that exist in every human person." "Robert Jingen Guinn provides wise and compassionate portraits of these emblematic figures. Each of them, in his own way, had to experience emptiness, going beyond consciousness to discover his own personal truth, whether that was rooted in Buddha-nature, God or the unconscious. This "going beyond" became a path to encountering their own unique selves and a deeper sense of life."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Book Synopsis A Most Magnificent Machine by : Craig Miner
Download or read book A Most Magnificent Machine written by Craig Miner and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as the railroad transformed America's economic landscape, it profoundly transfigured its citizens as well. But while there have been many histories of railroads, few have examined the subject as a social and cultural phenomenon. Informed especially by rich research in the nation's newspaper archives, Craig Miner now traces the growth of railroads from their origins in the 1820s to the onset of the Civil War. In this first social history of the early railroads, Miner reveals how ordinary Americans experienced this innovation at the grass roots, from boosters' dreams of get-rich schemes to naysayers' fears of soulless corporations. Drawing on an amazing 400,000 articles from 185 newspapers-plus more than 3,000 books and pamphlets from the era-he documents the initial burst of enthusiasm accompanying early railroading as it took shape in various settings across the country. Miner examines the cultural, economic, and political aspects of this broad and complicated topic while remaining rooted in the local interests of communities. He takes readers back to the days of the Mauch Chunk Railway, a tourist sensation of the mid-1820s, navigates the mixed reactions to trains as Baltimore's city fathers envisioned tracks to the Ohio River, shows how Pennsylvanians wrestled with the efficacy of railroads versus canals, and describes the intense rivalry of cities competing for trade as old transportation patterns were replaced by the new rail technology. Miner samples individual railroads to compare progress across the industry, showing how it became a quintessentially American business-and how the Panic of 1837 significantly slowed the railways as a major engine of growth for many years. He also explores the impact of railroads on different regions, even disproving the backwardness of the South by citing the Central of Georgia as one of the best-managed and most profitable lines in the country. Through this panoramic work, readers will discover just how the benefits of what became the country's first big business triumphed over cultural concerns, though not without considerable controversy along the way. By identifying citizens' hopes and fears sparked by the railroads, A Most Magnificent Machine takes readers down the tracks of progress as it opens a new window on antebellum America.
Book Synopsis Climate and the Picturesque in the American Tropics by : Michael Boyden
Download or read book Climate and the Picturesque in the American Tropics written by Michael Boyden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biggest challenge of the twenty-first century is to bring the effects of public life into relation with the intractable problem of global atmospheric change. Climate and the Picturesque in the American Tropics explains how we came to think of the climate as something abstract and remote rather than a force that actively shapes our existence. The book argues that this separation between climate and sensibility predates the rise of modern climatology and has deep roots in the era of colonial expansion, when the American tropics were transformed into the economic supplier for Euro-American empires. The book shows how the writings of American travellers in the Caribbean registered and pushed forward this new understanding of the climate in a pivotal period in modern history, roughly between 1770 and 1860, which was fraught with debates over slavery, environmental destruction, and colonialism. Offering novel readings of authors including J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Leonora Sansay, William Cullen Bryant, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and James McCune Smith in light of their engagements with the American tropics, this book shows that these authors drew on a climatic epistemology that fused science and sentiment in ways that citizen science is aspiring to do today. By suggesting a new genealogy of modern climate thinking, Climate and the Picturesque in the American Tropics thus highlights the urgency of revisiting received ideas of tropicality deeply ingrained in American culture that continue to inform current debates on climate debt and justice.
Download or read book Holstein-Friesian World written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Geography and Travels by : Chicago Public Library
Download or read book Geography and Travels written by Chicago Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Geography: Journeys in distant lands and United States and Canada by : Harlan Harland Barrows
Download or read book Geography: Journeys in distant lands and United States and Canada written by Harlan Harland Barrows and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania by : John Woolf Jordan
Download or read book Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania written by John Woolf Jordan and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American Journal of Science by :
Download or read book The American Journal of Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Journal of the Life, Gospel Labours, and Christian Experiences of that Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ by : John Woolman
Download or read book A Journal of the Life, Gospel Labours, and Christian Experiences of that Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ written by John Woolman and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Journal of the Life, Gospel labours, and christian experiences of --- by : John Woolman
Download or read book A Journal of the Life, Gospel labours, and christian experiences of --- written by John Woolman and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Underground Railroad in New York and New Jersey by : William J. Switala
Download or read book Underground Railroad in New York and New Jersey written by William J. Switala and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2006-06-26 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Maps of the major escape routes • Identifies houses and sites where slaves found refuge • Chapter on Canada discusses the final destination Tells the story of the network that guided escaped slaves to freedom, its operation, its important figures, and its specific history in New York and New Jersey. Pinpoints major routes in the states, with maps and information for locating them today.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Life Writing by : Margaretta Jolly
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Life Writing written by Margaretta Jolly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 3905 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. This is the first substantial reference work in English on the various forms that constitute "life writing." As this term suggests, the Encyclopedia explores not only autobiography and biography proper, but also letters, diaries, memoirs, family histories, case histories, and other ways in which individual lives have been recorded and structured. It includes entries on genres and subgenres, national and regional traditions from around the world, and important auto-biographical writers, as well as articles on related areas such as oral history, anthropology, testimonies, and the representation of life stories in non-verbal art forms.
