Bob Marshall in the Adirondacks
Author : Robert Marshall
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 15,42 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Travel
ISBN :
Author : Robert Marshall
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 15,42 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Travel
ISBN :
Author : Robert Marshall
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 38,9 MB
Release : 2018-10-30
Category :
ISBN : 9780344473166
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Author : Robert Marshall
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 21,32 MB
Release : 2002-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781609380229
Devoted conservationist, environmentalist, and explorer Robert Marshall (1901-1939) was chief of the Division of Recreation and Lands, U.S. Forest Service, when he died at age thirty-eight. Throughout his short but intense life, Marshall helped catalyze the preservation of millions of wilderness acres in all parts of the U.S., inspired countless wilderness advocates, and was a pioneer in the modern environmental movement: he and seven fellow conservationists founded the Wilderness Society in 1935. First published in 1933, "The People's Forests" made a passionate case for the public ownership and management of the nation's forests in the face of generations of devastating practices; its republication now is especially timely. Marshall describes the major values of forests as sources of raw materials, as essential resources for the conservation of soil and water, and as a OC precious environment for recreationOCO and for OC the happiness of millions of human beings.OCO He considers the pros and cons of private and public ownership, deciding that public ownership and large-scale public acquisition are vital in order to save the nation's forests, and sets out ways to intelligently plan for and manage public ownership. The last words of this book capture Marshall's philosophy perfectly: OC The time has come when we must discard the unsocial view that our woods are the lumbermen's and substitute the broader ideal that every acre of woodland in the country is rightly a part of the people's forests.OCO"
Author : Robert Marshall
Publisher : Classic Reprint Series
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 33,7 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780912006512
This classic is an original work of literature by one of America's foremost conservationists and is an account of the people of the north, both Native and white, who give Alaska its special human flavor. First published over fifty years ago, the book is still a favorite among old-time Alaskans and, over the years, has prompted numerous readers to pack up and move to Alaska. The richness of statistical coverage in this book, and Marshall's careful descriptions of the characters he met, provide readers with a window to the world of 1930 and a nearly complete record of the Koyukuk civilization as he saw it. Readers learn what the people of Wiseman thought about sex, religion, politics, and the myriad of ways they found to cope with and enjoy life in a wilderness community.
Author : Russell Mack Little Carson
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 29,65 MB
Release : 1927
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Bill McKibben
Publisher : Countryman Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 45,87 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780881503180
This new series highlights low-traffic scenic roads, both dirt and paved, suitable for riding on both mountain and road bikes.
Author : Christopher Shaw
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 19,96 MB
Release : 2020-08-19
Category :
ISBN : 9781977232137
In the nineteen-eighties, an amateur historian of the Adirondacks recorded the fading memories of an aging woodsman and bootlegger, searching for details about the old-time fiddle player and rustic builder Fran Germaine. The woodsman's wild tales faded into dust more than once until the discovery of a diary kept by Rosalyn Orloff, the socialist writer and political theorist of the twenties and thirties, and reputed lover of the psychoanalyst Carl Jung. The Power Line travels from the villages of Lake Aurora and Saranac Lake, New York in the years following World War I, when Prohibition and tuberculosis kept them hopping, to Montreal and a thrilling escape by canoe across the St. Lawrence River in the dead of winter. It connects lives and periods often overlooked in the history of northern New York and the Canadian borderlands, shining light on the continuity of a disputed and murky past with a living and recognizable present.
Author : Christine Jerome
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 38,15 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN :
The author follows a trip through the Adirondack Park taken a century earlier by George Washington Sears.
Author : Carol White
Publisher : Black Dome Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,25 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Hiking
ISBN : 9781883789633
Eighty-six true tales by more than 75 hikers including Forty-Sixers and members of the Adirondack Mountain Club about the dangers, challenges, and joys of all-season hiking and backpacking in the Adirondacks. Included are unforgettable climbs, extreme weather, animal encounters, getting lost, accidents, injuries, rescues, inspirations and enchantments in an awe-inspiring wilderness. Book jacket.
Author : Jim Tracy
Publisher : Post Hill Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 37,98 MB
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1642936278
Jim Tracy’s Sworn to Silence is an unforgettable story of two American lawyers who did the unprecedented. They searched for, found, and photographed the lifeless bodies of their client’s victims and then kept it secret. They did so in the face of unendurable pressure from the authorities and the victims’ families, who suspected the lawyers knew more than they were saying. When the American public eventually learned of the lawyers’ actions, they were horrified, outraged, and vengeful. People could not fathom how two attorneys—fathers of teenage girls themselves—and supposed officers of the law, could conduct themselves in a manner seemingly beyond any concept of humanity. Today, this landmark legal case is studied and analyzed in law schools worldwide. These events have been indelibly marked in Tracy’s mind since he was eight years old; in fact, he was present at the scene of New York state’s largest manhunt after the killer broke into Tracy’s father’s hunting camp in the Adirondack Mountains. In Sworn to Silence, Tracy weaves together a true crime narrative that should rank with some of the most compelling American crime stories of modern times. He does so while taking you—the reader—on a page-turning journey back to the early 1970s, unveiling an American serial killer most people have never heard of.