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Author | : Susan J. Tweit |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2022-05-24 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0816549052 |
Appearing barren and most definitely wild, the Chihuahuan Desert of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States may look worthless to some, but for Susan Tweit it is an inspiration. In this collection of seven elegant personal essays, she explores undiscovered facets of this seemingly hostile environment. With eloquence, passion, and insight, she describes and reflects on the relationship between the land, history, and people and makes this underappreciated region less barren for those who would share her journeys.
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Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 1854 |
Genre | : Missouri |
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Author | : David J. Weber |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2017-08-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300215045 |
This unique guide for literate travelers in the American Southwest tells the story of fifteen iconic sites across Arizona, New Mexico, southern Utah, and southern Colorado through the eyes of the explorers, missionaries, and travelers who were the first non-natives to describe them. Noted borderlands historians David J. Weber and William deBuys lead readers through centuries of political, cultural, and ecological change. The sites visited in this volume range from popular destinations within the National Park System—including Carlsbad Caverns, the Grand Canyon, and Mesa Verde—to the Spanish colonial towns of Santa Fe and Taos and the living Indian communities of Acoma, Zuni, and Taos. Lovers of the Southwest, residents and visitors alike, will delight in the authors’ skillful evocation of the region’s sweeping landscapes, its rich Hispanic and Indian heritage, and the sense of discovery that so enchanted its early explorers.
Author | : Sigrid Rausing |
Publisher | : Granta |
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Release | : 2017-02-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1909889040 |
What are the ethics of writing about a place you visit as an outsider? With Granta's long tradition of travel writing in mind, we ask some of the foremost writers of the genre: is travel writing dead? Tara Bergin, Rana Dasgupta, Geoff Dyer, Eliza Griswold, Mohsin Hamid, Lindsey Hilsum, Colin Thubron, Pico Iyer, Ian Jack, Robert Macfarlane, Wendell Steavenson, Samanth Subramanian and Alexis Wright Plus: William Atkins investigates murder on the US-Mexico border Xan Rice goes back to school in South Africa David Flusfeder's road trip to Detroit and California in search of his father's past Xiaolu Guo leaves China's 'semi-tropical south' for the 'solemn and tough north' Janine di Giovanni's homesickness Amit Chaudhuri returns to the city of his birth New fiction from Edna O'Brien; poetry by Emily Berry and Zeyar Lynn; photography by Justin Jin, Carl De Keyzer and Andrew McConnell introduced by A Yi and Adam Marek
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Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 082634397X |
A powerful defense in words and photos of this unique grassland under increasing threat of oil and gas exploitation.
Author | : John Marius Wilson |
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Total Pages | : 1000 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Author | : John Russell Bartlett |
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Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 1854 |
Genre | : California |
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Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1854 |
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Author | : Thomas Robertson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2020-04-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108419763 |
"World War II was the largest and most destructive conflict in human history. It was an existential struggle that pitted irreconcilable political systems and ideologies against one another across the globe in a decade of violence unlike any other. There is little doubt today that the United States had to engage in the fighting, especially after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The conflict was, in the words of historians Allan Millett and Williamson Murray, "a war to be won." As the world's largest industrial power, the United States put forth a supreme effort to produce the weapons, munitions, and military formations essential to achieving victory. When the war finally ended, the finale signaled by atomic mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, upwards of 60 million people had perished in the inferno. Of course, the human toll represented only part of the devastation; global environments also suffered greatly. The growth and devastation of the Second World War significantly changed American landscapes as well. The war created or significantly expanded a number of industries, put land to new uses, spurred urbanization, and left a legacy of pollution that would in time create a new term: Superfund site"--
Author | : Ed Bowker Staff |
Publisher | : R. R. Bowker |
Total Pages | : 3274 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780835246422 |