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Author : Julie Boardman
Publisher : Julie Boardman
ISBN 13 : 0970832419
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (78 download)
Download or read book When Women and Mountains Meet written by Julie Boardman and published by Julie Boardman. This book was released on 2001 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pavel Cenkl
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587297140
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)
Download or read book This Vast Book of Nature written by Pavel Cenkl and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Vast Book of Nature is a careful, engaging, accessible, and wide-ranging account of the ways in which the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire---and, by implication, other wild places---have been written into being by different visitors, residents, and developers from the post-Revolutionary era to the days of high tourism at the beginning of the twentieth century. Drawing on tourist brochures, travel accounts, pictorial representations, fiction and poetry, local histories, journals, and newspapers, Pavel Cenkl gauges how Americans have arranged space for political and economic purposes and identified it as having value beyond the economic. Starting with an exploration of Jeremy Belknap’s 1784 expedition to Mount Washington, which Cenkl links to the origins of tourism in the White Mountains, to the transformation of touristic and residential relationships to landscape, This Vast Book of Nature explores the ways competing visions of the landscape have transformed the White Mountains culturally and physically, through settlement, development, and---most recently---preservation, a process that continues today.
Author : Harold William Tilman
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book When Men & Mountains Meet written by Harold William Tilman and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1947 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edith Rogovin Frankel
Publisher : Derrydale Press
ISBN 13 : 146170829X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)
Download or read book Walking in the Mountains written by Edith Rogovin Frankel and published by Derrydale Press. This book was released on 2003-09-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though this book was written with women in mind (there is a section on hiking while pregnant, for example), men will enjoy the ins and outs of proper equipment and how to use it, difficulty level of various mountains, the kinds of terrain a child may or may not be able to handle, and the health and spiritual benefits of walking in the mountains. Addressing both the unrepentant couch potato as well as the absurdly fit, the author prescribes various exercise regimes according to the fitness level of the individual. Subsequent chapters explain map reading, what to wear, what to carry in a backpack, and recommended treks in the U.S., Himalayas, and Europe; a comprehensive appendix lists climbing clubs and rental opportunities.
Author : Daniel Francis
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1550177524
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Where Mountains Meet the Sea written by Daniel Francis and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where Mountains Meet the Sea commemorates the 125th anniversary of the District of North Vancouver's incorporation as a municipality. Combining hundreds of illustrations with the personal accounts of residents and a lively text, the book presents the story of North Vancouver in all its colour and complexity. Instead of a conventional chronological narrative, Where Mountains Meet the Sea divides the story of North Vancouver's development into three major parts: 1) the origins of the community, its First Nations residents and the development of its waterfront; 2) the political and cultural evolution of the community; and 3) the development of the mountain resorts and the creation of the many parks which characterize the North Shore. From the District's auspicious beginnings with the sawmill at Moodyville dominating the industry of Burrard Inlet, through the postwar population boom that saw the municipality evolve from a suburb of Vancouver into a bustling community in its own right, to the District's rich legacy of outdoor recreation, the text, residents' anecdotes and photographs create a vivid portrait of the development of a thriving community. Each section of the book is richly illustrated in full colour with biographies, eyewitness memories, artifacts from the collection of the North Vancouver Museum and Archives, historic photographs, maps and charts.
Author : Hannah Kimberley
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250105811
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A Woman's Place Is at the Top written by Hannah Kimberley and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annie Smith Peck is one of the most accomplished women of the twentieth century that you have never heard of. Peck was a scholar, educator, writer, lecturer, mountain climber, suffragist, and political activist. She was a feminist and an independent thinker who refused to let gender stereotypes stand in her way. Peck gained fame in 1895 when she first climbed the Matterhorn at the age of forty-five – not for her daring alpine feat, but because she climbed wearing pants. Fifteen years later, she was the first climber ever to conquer Mount Huascarán (21,831 feet) in Peru. In 1911, just before her sixtieth birthday, she entered a race with Hiram Bingham (the model for Indiana Jones) to climb Mount Coropuna. A Woman’s Place Is at the Top: The Biography of Annie Smith Peck is the first full length work about this incredible woman who single-handedly carved her place on the map of mountain climbing and international relations. Peck marched in suffrage parades and became a political speaker and writer before women had the right to vote. She was a propagandist, an expert on North-South American relations, and an author and lecturer contracted to speak as an authority on multinational industry and commerce before anyone had ever thought to appoint a woman as a diplomat. With unprecedented access to Peck’s original letters, artifacts, and ephemera, Hannah Kimberley brings Peck’s entire life to the page for the first time, giving Peck her rightful place in history.
Author : Graham MacDonald
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
ISBN 13 : 1552380149
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (523 download)
Download or read book Where the Mountains Meet the Prairies written by Graham MacDonald and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MacDonald (historian, Parks Canada, Calgary) presents the history of one of the most popular parks in western Canada. From a discussion of the British naturalist Charles Waterton to explorations of such topics as conservation, Native traditions, and townsite development, this study provides a broad interpretive history of the area. The text is supported with bandw photographs, art reproductions and maps. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Kimberly A. Jarvis
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584656272
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (562 download)
Download or read book Franconia Notch and the Women who Saved it written by Kimberly A. Jarvis and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2007 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An early 20th century case study of evolving grassroots notions of preservation and the role of women in the American conservation movement
Author : Simon Bainbridge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192599755
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Mountaineering and British Romanticism written by Simon Bainbridge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relationship between Romantic-period writing and the activity that Samuel Taylor Coleridge christened 'mountaineering' in 1802. It argues that mountaineering developed as a pursuit in Britain during the Romantic era, earlier than is generally recognised, and shows how writers including William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Ann Radcliffe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Walter Scott were central to the activity's evolution. It explores how the desire for physical ascent shaped Romantic-period literary culture and investigates how the figure of the mountaineer became crucial to creative identities and literary outputs. Illustrated with 25 images from the period, the book shows how mountaineering in Britain had its origins in scientific research, antiquarian travel, and the search for the picturesque and the sublime. It considers how writers engaged with mountaineering's power dynamics and investigates issues including the politics of the summit view (what Wordsworth terms 'visual sovereignty'), the relationships between different types of 'mountaineers', and the role of women in the developing cultures of ascent. Placing the work of canonical writers alongside a wide range of other types of mountaineering literature, this book reassesses key Romantic-period terms and ideas, such as vision, insight, elevation, revelation, transcendence, and the sublime. It opens up new ways of understanding the relationship between Romantic-period writers and the world that they experienced through their feet and hands, as well as their eyes, as they moved through the challenging landscapes of the British mountains.
Author : Daniel Patterson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031334681X
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Early American Nature Writers written by Daniel Patterson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-11-30 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when the environment is of growing concern to students and general readers, nature writing is especially meaningful. This book profiles the literary careers of 52 early American nature writers, such as John James Audubon, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Caroline Stansbury Kirkland, Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, and Mabel Osgood Wright. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and discusses the writer's life and works. Entries close with primary and secondary bibliographies, and the encyclopedia ends with suggestions for further reading. Global warming, pollution, and other issues have made the environment a topic of constant discussion these days. Many environmental concerns were treated by early American nature writers, who recognized the beauty of the natural world in an age of commercial expansion. Some of the most famous writers of the 18th and 19th centuries wrote about nature, and their works are stylistic masterpieces. At a time when students are being encouraged to read and write about nonfiction, these masterworks of early American nature writing are all the more important. This book gives students and general readers a welcome introduction to early American nature writers.
Author : Silas Chamberlin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300224982
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book On the Trail written by Silas Chamberlin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of the American hiking community and its contributions to the nation’s vast network of trails. In the mid-nineteenth century urban walking clubs emerged in the United States. A little more than a century later, tens of millions of Americans were hiking on trails blazed in every region of the country. This groundbreaking book is the first full account of the unique history of the American hiking community and its rich, nationwide culture. Delving into unexplored archives, including those of the Appalachian Mountain Club, Sierra Club, Green Mountain Club, and many others, Silas Chamberlin recounts the activities of hikers who over many decades formed clubs, built trails, and advocated for environmental protection. He also discusses the shifting attitudes of the late 1960s and early 1970s when ideas about traditional volunteerism shifted and new hikers came to see trail blazing and maintenance as government responsibilities. Chamberlin explores the implications for hiking groups, future club leaders, and the millions of others who find happiness, inspiration, and better health on America’s trails. “With rich historical context Silas Chamberlin inspires new appreciation for trailblazers, while sharing the legacy of hiking and its growing importance today, as people find their way to a new relationship with the natural world.”—Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods and Vitamin N “Chamberlin has demonstrated that what at first looks simple—walking on our own two feet—has a complex history of changing cultural associations, social infrastructure, and national significance.”—James Longhurst, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse
Author : Christopher Johnson
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584654612
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (546 download)
Download or read book This Grand & Magnificent Place written by Christopher Johnson and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping environmental history of a quintessential American wilderness.
Author : Susan Ware
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674014886
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (148 download)
Download or read book Notable American Women written by Susan Ware and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest volume brings the project up to date, with entries on almost 500 women whose death dates fall between 1976 and 1999. You will find here stars of the golden ages of radio, film, dance, and television; scientists and scholars; civil rights activists and religious leaders; Native American craftspeople and world-renowned artists. For each subject, the volume offers a biographical essay by a distinguished authority that integrates the woman's personal life with her professional achievements set in the context of larger historical developments.
Author : Bill Farrel
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0736939024
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (369 download)
Download or read book Single Men Are Like Waffles—Single Women Are Like Spaghetti written by Bill Farrel and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its lively new cover, this specially focused complement to Men Are Like Waffles—Women Are Like Spaghetti, guides singles through the journey of developing and maintaining healthy relationships with members of the opposite sex. This book offers valuable insight for single men and women as they learn to... work together more effectively socialize with each other more enjoyably date one another more successfully Discussion topics and activities for small groups are included, as well as a ten-week study guide for couples dating seriously.
Author : George Colfax Baldwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Representative Women written by George Colfax Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Reagan, Ronald
Publisher : Best Books on
ISBN 13 : 1623769329
Total Pages : 1376 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (237 download)
Download or read book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981 written by Reagan, Ronald and published by Best Books on. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 1376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Author : United States. President
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1402 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States written by United States. President and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President", 1956-1992.
