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Author : Professor John C Van Dyke
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781498193184
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (931 download)
Download or read book The Desert written by Professor John C Van Dyke and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1901 Edition.
Author : John Charles Van Dyke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Desert written by John Charles Van Dyke and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Van Dyke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Desert written by John Van Dyke and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A desert classic published in 1901. John Charles Van Dyke (1856-1932) was an American art historian, critic, and nature writer. He was born at New Brunswick, New Jersey, studied at Columbia, and for many years in Europe. In 1878, Van Dyke was appointed the librarian of the Gardner Sage Library at the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, and in 1891 as a professor of art history at Rutgers College. He was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1908. When visiting the western deserts, Van Dyke brought his years of Art experience with him when composing this book, The Desert. The result is the visual language of light, air, and color which gives his writing a vivid poetic imagery loved by generations of readers.
Author : John Charles Van Dyke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (223 download)
Download or read book The Desert written by John Charles Van Dyke and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : JOHN C. VAN. DYKE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033012741
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (127 download)
Download or read book DESERT written by JOHN C. VAN. DYKE and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Charles 1856-1932 Van Dyke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781361790342
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (93 download)
Download or read book DESERT written by John Charles 1856-1932 Van Dyke and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Charles Van Dyke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Desert written by John Charles Van Dyke and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Charles Van Dyke
Publisher : Peregrine Smith Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Desert written by John Charles Van Dyke and published by Peregrine Smith Books. This book was released on 1980 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early summer of 1898, John C. Van Dyke, an asthmatic forty-two-year-old art historian and critic, rode an Indian pony out of the Hemet Valley, and headed southeast into the Colorado desert. With his dog, his guns, and few supplies, this sickly aesthete wandered, mostly alone, for nearly three years across the deserts of California, Arizona and Mexico. He crossed the Salton Sea Basin, forded the Colorado below Yuma on a raft he built himself, followed the railroad line to Tucson, then turned west again toward Sonora. His exact route is not known; he did not always know where he was himself. He sought both health and beauty in the dry country and wrote that the desert "never had a sacred poet; it has in me only a lover". This extraordinary book, composed "at odd intervals, when I lay against a rock or propped up in the sand", is a masterpiece of personal philosophy, containing precise scientific analyses of diverse phenomena-- from erosion to sky colors-- and prescient ruminations on the nature of civilization. "The desert should never be reclaimed!" Van Dyke wrote, yet he lived long enough to see the reclamation projects in what became the Imperial Valley. He did not witness the virtual destruction of the Colorado Desert still ongoing. As poet Richard Shelton wonders in his introduction, "Where are the herds of antelope Van Dyke spoke of, and the gray wolves and the pure air?"
Author : Joseph Wood Krutch
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 158729947X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)
Download or read book The Desert Year written by Joseph Wood Krutch and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: W. Sloane Associates, c1952.
Author : John Charles Van Dyke
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780259409014
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Desert written by John Charles Van Dyke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Desert: Further Studies in Natural Appearances Familiar facts, you will say. Yes; and not unfamiliar the knowledge that with the coming of civilization the grasses and the wild flowers perish, the forest falls and its place is taken by brambles, the mountains are blasted in the search for minerals, the plains are broken by the plow and the soil is gradually washed into the rivers. Last of all, when the forests have gone the rains cease falling, the streams dry up, the ground parches and yields no life, and the artificial desert - the desert made by the tramp of human feet - begins to show itself, Yes; everyone must have cast a backward glance and seen Nature's beauties beaten to ashes under the successive marches of civilization. The older portions of the earth show their desolation plainly enough, and the ascending smoke and dust of the ruin have even tainted the air and dimmed the sunlight. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : John Charles Van Dyke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Desert written by John Charles Van Dyke and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Charles Van Dyke
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020389566
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (895 download)
Download or read book The Desert written by John Charles Van Dyke and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic work of natural history, John Charles Van Dyke explores the ecology and geology of the desert landscape. Drawing on his own experiences as a field naturalist, as well as the latest scientific research, he presents a vivid and compelling portrait of this harsh and beautiful environment. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : John Charles Van Dyke
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781294240228
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Desert written by John Charles Van Dyke and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Author : John Charles Van Dyke
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801862243
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (622 download)
Download or read book The Desert written by John Charles Van Dyke and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1999-08-12 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its first appearance in 1901, John C. Van Dyke's The Desert has been considered one of the classics of American nature writing. Before its publication, Americans thought of deserts as scorpion-infested wastelands—with names like Devil's Domain and the Lands That God Forgot. All this changed as The Desert drew attention to the extraordinary beauty that existed in the American West: rolling sand dunes, golden vistas, vibrant sunsets, and remarkable plant and animal life. Van Dyke's book captured the nation's imagination at a time when attitudes about the land were changing. It provided a vocabulary that continues to be used as appreciation of deserts increases and ever greater pressures lead to new calls to protect these fragile environments. With a critical introduction by Peter Wild, this edition offers new insights—and reveals some surprising truths—about this legendary author and his best known work. Van Dyke was not, it seems, the "plaster saint of the desert." He was not entirely honest with his readers about the journeys that inspired the book, and his natural history includes serious errors. But in this more informed reading, Wild notes, Van Dyke "emerges as all the more fascinating a writer and his famous book becomes far more intriguing than most readers have imagined through the decades." As the centennial of its publication approaches and the complex story behind its long success is finally told, this new edition of The Desert reveals an equally complex and dramatic narrative: our changing relationship with the American landscape. "Van Dyke came at just the right time... No sooner had Americans conquered the wilderness, cut down the forests, and slaughtered the buffalo than the romantic nation began sentimentalizing the past, longing for what it had just destroyed."—from the Introduction
Author : Jen Bervin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Desert written by Jen Bervin and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An artist's book based on a facsimile of an earlier published work: the text portions are a reduced facsimile of the first seven chapters of the first edition of John C. Van Dyke's The Desert: Further Studies in Natural Appearances, published in New York, 1901 ; the pinted facsimile has been oversewn throughout with blue thread in even, letter-height, zig-zag stitching; most of the lines of text have been obliterated with only a few of the words left visible.
Author : Reyner Banham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500272787
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (727 download)
Download or read book Scenes in America Deserta written by Reyner Banham and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Stephen Felger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dry Borders written by Richard Stephen Felger and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part natural history, part call to conservation, and part love song, this evocative and informative excursion into the Sonoran Desert along the U.S.-Mexico border brings to life the beauty of a sparse and seductive terrain.
