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Book Synopsis California Vistas by : James A. Banks
Download or read book California Vistas written by James A. Banks and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis California Vistas by : James A. Banks
Download or read book California Vistas written by James A. Banks and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis California Vistas by : James A. Banks
Download or read book California Vistas written by James A. Banks and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Orange Empire by : Douglas Cazaux Sackman
Download or read book Orange Empire written by Douglas Cazaux Sackman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Douglas Sackman peels an orange and finds inside nothing less than an American agricultural-industrial culture in all its inventive, exploitative, transformative, and destructive power. A beautifully researched and intellectually expansive book."—Elliott West, author of The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado
Book Synopsis Tending the Wild by : M. Kat Anderson
Download or read book Tending the Wild written by M. Kat Anderson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-06-14 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complex look at California Native ecological practices as a model for environmental sustainability and conservation. John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today—that much of California was pristine, untouched wilderness before the arrival of Europeans. But as this groundbreaking book demonstrates, what Muir was really seeing when he admired the grand vistas of Yosemite and the gold and purple flowers carpeting the Central Valley were the fertile gardens of the Sierra Miwok and Valley Yokuts Indians, modified and made productive by centuries of harvesting, tilling, sowing, pruning, and burning. Marvelously detailed and beautifully written, Tending the Wild is an unparalleled examination of Native American knowledge and uses of California's natural resources that reshapes our understanding of native cultures and shows how we might begin to use their knowledge in our own conservation efforts. M. Kat Anderson presents a wealth of information on native land management practices gleaned in part from interviews and correspondence with Native Americans who recall what their grandparents told them about how and when areas were burned, which plants were eaten and which were used for basketry, and how plants were tended. The complex picture that emerges from this and other historical source material dispels the hunter-gatherer stereotype long perpetuated in anthropological and historical literature. We come to see California's indigenous people as active agents of environmental change and stewardship. Tending the Wild persuasively argues that this traditional ecological knowledge is essential if we are to successfully meet the challenge of living sustainably.
Book Synopsis California in a Time of Excellence by : James Andrew LaSpina
Download or read book California in a Time of Excellence written by James Andrew LaSpina and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows California’s efforts at reforming the public school system from 1983 to the present.
Book Synopsis California Grassroots Tours by : Eric J. Adams
Download or read book California Grassroots Tours written by Eric J. Adams and published by American Traveler Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Striking full-colour guides. Bound in water repellent, film laminated covers. Extensive centre-spread maps of the state highlights locations featured in each book. Special 8-pocket and 4-pocket lucite display racks available with purchase of the series.
Book Synopsis The Coasts of California by : Obi Kaufmann
Download or read book The Coasts of California written by Obi Kaufmann and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 2022-04-17 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic, gloriously illustrated journey up and down California's shoreline California's coastline is world famous, an endless source of fascination and fantasy, but there is no book about it like this one. Obi Kaufmann, author-illustrator of The California Field Atlas and The Forests of California, now turns his attention to the 1,200 miles of the Golden State where the land meets the ocean. Bursting with color, The Coasts of California is in Kaufmann's signature style, fusing science with art and pure poetic reverie. And much more than a survey of tourist spots, Coasts is a full immersion into the astonishingly varied natural worlds that hug California's shoreline. With hundreds of gorgeous watercolor maps and illustrations, Kaufmann explores the rhythms of the tides, the lives of sea creatures, the shifting of rocks and sand, and the special habitats found on California's islands. At the book's core is an expansive, detailed walk down the California Coastal Trail, including maps of parks along the way--a wealth of knowledge for any coast-lover. The Coasts of California is a geographic epic, an odyssey in nature, a grand and glorious book for a grand and glorious part of the world.
Download or read book Alta California written by Nick Neely and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This national bestseller chronicles one man’s 650–mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco—sure to appeal to readers of naturalist works like Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire, Paul Thoreau’s On the Plain of Snakes, and Mark Kenyon’s That Wild Country. In 1769, an expedition led by Gaspar de Portolá sketched a route that would become, in part, the famous El Camino Real. It laid the foundation for the Golden State we know today, a place that remains as mythical and captivating as any in the world. Despite having grown up in California, Nick Neely realized how little he knew about its history. So he set off to learn it bodily, with just a backpack and a tent, trekking through stretches of California both lonely and urban. For twelve weeks, following the journal of expedition missionary Father Juan Crespí, Neely kept pace with the ghosts of the Portolá expedition—nearly 250 years later. Weaving natural and human history, Alta California relives Neely’s adventure, while telling a story of Native cultures and the Spanish missions that soon devastated them, and exploring the evolution of California and its landscape. The result is a collage of historical and contemporary California, of lyricism and pedestrian serendipity, and of the biggest issues facing California today—water, agriculture, oil and gas, immigration, and development—all of it one step at a time. “Rich in little–known history . . . Up the Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo county coasts, then inland into the Salinas Valley to Monterey Bay. Somewhere along here, the owl moons and woodpeckers do something you might not have thought possible in 2019: they make you fall, or refall, in love with California, ungrudgingly, wildfires and insane housing prices and all . . . What a journey, you think. What a state." —San Francisco Chronicle
Download or read book Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book California written by Ansel Adams and published by Ansel Adams. This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of California by its most renowned photographer, this book features many rarely seen images and an intriguing selection of writings about the state by classic and contemporary authors. This volume collects for the first time a full range of Adams' California images. Sixty-five beautifully reproduced photographs capture some of California's most inimitable vistas - San Francisco, the Golden Gate, Point Reyes, the North Coast, redwood forests, Mt. Lassen, orchards in Santa Clara, Lake Tahoe, lettuce fields in the Salinas Valley, and the gold country, among many others. Accompanying these beautiful photographs are evocative poems, essays, and passages about California by a wide range of notable writers, including Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, John Muir, Robinson Jeffers, John Steinbeck, John McPhee, Wallace Stegner, and Joan Didion.
Download or read book Unfolding Beauty written by Terry Beers and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astounding beauty of California is reflected not only in the works of authors like John Muir, John Steinbeck, Wallace Stegner, and Robinson Jeffers, but also in surprising and provocative selections from writers such as Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, Aldous Huxley, and Charles Bukowski.
Book Synopsis Competing Visions by : Robert Cherny
Download or read book Competing Visions written by Robert Cherny and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a strong social emphasis and succinct narrative, COMPETING VISIONS: A HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA, 2E chronicles the stories of people who have had an impact on the state's history while presenting California as a hub of competing economic, social, and political visions. It highlights the state's cultural diversity and explicitly compares it to other Western states, the nation, and the world--illustrating the national and international significance of California's history. Its chronological organization and thematic approach enables readers to keep track of events and fully understand their significance. Telling the full story, the text concludes by discussing such current events as immigration and demographic changes, the Occupy Movement, energy challenges, and more.
Book Synopsis California the Beautiful by : Paul Elder
Download or read book California the Beautiful written by Paul Elder and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contribution by Charles Warren Stoddard, Ina Coolbrith, Joaquin Miller, George Sterling, David Starr Jordan, Frank Norris, Bret Harte, Gelett Burgess, Gertrude Atherton, Edwin Markham, John Muir, among others.
Book Synopsis California Motorlogues ... by : Earle Vonard Weller
Download or read book California Motorlogues ... written by Earle Vonard Weller and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book VISTA Currents written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A technical assistance publication for VISTA volunteers and their sponsoring organizations.
Book Synopsis California Central Coast Railways by : Rick Hamman
Download or read book California Central Coast Railways written by Rick Hamman and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: