The Mighty Sierra
Author : Paul Webster
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 37,60 MB
Release : 1972
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ISBN :
Author : Paul Webster
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 37,60 MB
Release : 1972
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ISBN :
Author : Paul Webster
Publisher :
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 36,35 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
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Author : Paul Webster
Publisher :
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 11,76 MB
Release : 1972
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Author : Paul Webster
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Page : pages
File Size : 11,64 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
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Author : Paul Webster
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 22,25 MB
Release : 1972
Category : History
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Author : Outlet
Publisher : Gramercy
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 35,27 MB
Release : 1988-12
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ISBN : 9780517187661
Author : John Muir
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Page : 408 pages
File Size : 22,92 MB
Release : 1894
Category : California
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Author : Verna R. Johnston
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 23,74 MB
Release : 1998-04-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520925496
All lovers of the mountains will welcome Verna Johnston's new and completely updated edition of her classic, Sierra Nevada, originally published in 1970. A professional biologist, veteran ornithologist, and well-known wildlife photographer, Johnston is the perfect guide for a natural-history trip into the Sierra. Regardless of how one explores the magnificent 400-mile-long mountain range, on foot or by car, in an armchair or a classroom, this is the book to have. Beginning with the western foothills, Johnston evokes a vivid picture of the varied plant and animal life encountered as the elevation increases, tops the crest, and drops to the more precipitous, arid eastern Sierra slope. The reader is taken through chaparral and mountain meadows, pine and fir forests, granite expanses and snowy peaks. Johnston writes of the Native Americans' uses and stewardship of the land, the role of fire in forest ecology, the eras of sheep herders and loggers, the work of John Muir and other preservationists, and the battles to save Mono Lake and Lake Tahoe. Her lifetime of field experience and discovery offers intimate observations of rarely recorded events: the courtship of the Sierra Nevada salamander, a wolverine attacking two bears, a fight to the death between a skink and a scorpion. Many changes have occurred in the Sierra since the first edition of this book was published, including acid snow, tensions involving human and cougar habitats, and an ominous drop in amphibian populations. Johnston documents these events and updates the ecological research in the rich, evocative writing style that makes her book a naturalist's treasure. This is a guide to the Sierra Nevada for the next millennium.
Author : John Muir
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Page : 464 pages
File Size : 18,67 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Alaska
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Author : Seymour Drescher
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 20,4 MB
Release : 2004-10-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0195176294
In this work Drescher argues that the plan to end British slavery, rather than being a timely escape from a failing system, was, on the contrary, the crucial element in the greatest humanitarian achievement of all time. He explores how politicians, colonial bureaucrats, pamphleteers, and scholars taking anti-slavery positions validated their claims through rational scientific arguments going beyond moral and polemical rhetoric, and how the infiltration of the social sciences into this political debate was designed to minimize agitation on both sides and provide common ground.