[PDF] Americas Natural Treasures eBook

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Publisher :
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 13,71 MB
Release : 2015
Category : National parks and reserves
ISBN :

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Listings for all fifty-nine national parks include the date established, location, size, how to get there, where to stay, and hours open.

Author : Stewart L. Udall
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,98 MB
Release : 1971
Category : National parks and reserves
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Vivid photographs and descriptive text capture the beauty of America's scenic wonders and wildlife.

Author : Stephen Puleo
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,76 MB
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1250065747

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The dramatic, never-before-told stories behind the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Gettysburg Address: America's crown jewels that define its commitment to freedom.

Author : John Muir
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 1191 pages
File Size : 27,26 MB
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Nature
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This edition includes: Picturesque California The Mountains of California Our National Parks My First Summer in the Sierra The Yosemite Travels in Alaska Stickeen: The Story of a Dog The Cruise of the Corwin A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf Steep Trails Studies in Sierra The National Parks and Forest Reservations Save the Redwoods Snow-storm on Mount Shasta Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park A Rival of the Yosemite The Treasures of the Yosemite Yosemite Glaciers Yosemite in Winter Yosemite in Spring Edward Henry Harriman Edward Taylor Parsons The Hetch Hetchy Valley The Grand Cañon of the Colorado

Author : Ron Fisher
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 18,5 MB
Release : 1984
Category : National parks and reserves
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America's national parks, forests, and wildlife refuges, Bureau of Land Managemnt holdings, and other Federally owned areas encompass more than 700 million acres. This volume covers the beauty of the American landscape and wildlife and the threats that development presents to these national treasures. It also chronicles the history of the Federal lands, their many uses, the laws and policies that affect them, and the problems these areas face, and explores possible solutions. The author documents both efforts to preserve and restore the land's glories and plans to put the same land to more profitable economic use. Over 300 evocative photographs help to record the splendor of nature and tragedy of its devastation. ISBN 0-87044-512-X: $19.95 (For use only in the library).

Author : Willie Geist
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 46,42 MB
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1401304222

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This is not the first book written about quantum mechanics, but it just might be the last. The theory presented inside these pages is so revolutionary that it has stunned the scientific community into reconsidering centuries of thought about the behavior of energy and matter. Prepare to have your mind blown. Sorry, that's the introduction to Willie Geist's next book--the culmination of his life's work. Look for it next spring, just in time for Mother's Day. This book is about his other passion: freaks. When he's not in the lab, Geist spends his time on MSNBC's Morning Joe sifting through the wreckage of American politics and popular culture. These days, that's a big job. With an Alaska hockey mom turning, almost overnight, into a national icon and threatening to move from Wasilla to the White House, with the world's most famous athlete now associated less with the Masters and more with the strippers, and with reality TV working around the clock to ensure the constitutional right of every man, woman, and child to fifteen minutes of fame, Geist's business is thriving. In his hilarious first book, American Freak Show, Geist takes the smart, biting observation loved by his television audience to new satirical extremes. The real-life characters who now haunt our daily lives are cast as stars in completely made-up scenes that, frankly, are not all that far from reality. Geist treats us to the first look at President Sarah Palin's unconventional inaugural address, performed live on WWE's Monday Night Raw after her renegade victory in the 2012 election. We go inside the ballroom for a Dean Martin-style welcome roast of Bernie Madoff upon his arrival in Hell, with Pol Pot serving as sidesplitting roastmaster. Geist provides us with never-before-seen FBI wiretap transcripts of the more mundane, but equally profane, telephone conversations of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich. And George W. Bush's batting-cage-and-waterslide-themed plans for a presidential library are laid out publicly for the first time. From Obama to Oprah, Afghanistan to Lohan, and Snooki to the Salahis, Willie Geist spares no one as our host of this wild American Freak Show. You'll laugh out loud while weeping for the future of America.

Author : W.C. Jameson
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 17,46 MB
Release : 2006-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1589796322

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With his storyteller's gift, Jameson relates episodes from early explorers through the colonial period, the Civil War, the settling of the West, and the roaring 1920s. As a professional treasure hunter, he has followed the trails of many of the lost mines and buried treasures he describes. Sample treasures include Sir Francis Drake Treasure, Benedict Arnold Treasure, Lafayette's Sunken Riches, Maryland's Lost Silver Mine, The Wandering Confederate Treasury, Lost Treasure of the Gray Ghost, Oklahoma Outlaw Cache, and Lost Spanish Gold in the Sandia Mountains.

Author : Tracy Salcedo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 17,28 MB
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1493018124

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The history of Yosemite National Park is as compelling as the waterfalls, monoliths, and peaks that have mesmerized visitors for more than a century. But what hikers see today in the iconic Yosemite Valley, as well as on the peaks in the high country and within the Mariposa Grove of Big Trees, is a world away from the place Native Americans once called Ahwahnee, and from what gold-seekers and mountain men looked upon in the park’s earliest days. Historic Yosemite National Park is a vibrant collection of stories about different aspects of Yosemite National Park’s fascinating history, from the conservation works of pivotal characters such as writer John Muir and photographer Ansel Adams to the daring exploits of rock climbers and the natural forces that have shaped Yosemite’s stunning vistas. These stories reveal why Yosemite National Park has inspired humankind for centuries.