[PDF] Across The Continent eBook

Author : Jeffrey L. Hantman
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,49 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813925950

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Arriving as the country commemorates the expedition's bicentennial, Across the Continent is an examination of the explorers' world and the complicated ways in which it relates to our own. The essays collected here look at the global geopolitics that provided the context for the expedition. Finally, the discussion considers the various legacies of the expedition, in particular its impact on Native Americans, and the current struggle over who will control the narrative of the expansion of the American Empire. --from publisher description.

Author : Barry M. Gough
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 11,99 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806130026

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Chronicles the perils and triumphs of the intrepid Scotsman who explored Canada's northwestern wilderness

Author : Charles Fletcher Lummis
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,89 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Overland journeys to the Pacific
ISBN :

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Lummis' foot journey from Ohio to Los Angeles. Very descriptive of the Southwest.

Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : VNR AG
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 10,23 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780060161583

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"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the movies from his youth were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs, which he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Coma, and Doldrum. At best his search led him to Anywhere, USA, a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by obese and slow-witted hicks with a partiality for synthetic fibres. He discovered a continent that was doubly lost: lost to itself because he found it blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country.

Author : Nnimmo Bassey
Publisher : Fahamu/Pambazuka
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,90 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1906387532

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Arguing that the climate crisis confronting the world today is rooted mainly in the wealthy economies’ abuse of fossil fuels, indigenous forests, and global commercial agriculture, this important book investigates how Africa has been exploited and how Africans should respond for the good of all. As it examines the oil industry in Africa and probes the causes of global warming, this record warns of its insidious impacts and explores false solutions. Demonstrating that the issues around natural resource exploitation, corporate profiteering, and climate change must be considered together if the planet is to be saved, the book suggests how Africa can overcome the crises of environment and global warming.

Author : James Daugherty
Publisher : Beautiful Feet Books, Inc.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,24 MB
Release : 1999-12
Category : Explorers
ISBN : 9781893103023

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An account of the resourcefulness and courage of Lewis and Clark on their journey through the wilderness from St. Louis to the Pacific. Written from original records and diaries of the expedition.

Author : John Gillow
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 26,71 MB
Release : 2003-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 0811841669

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Traces a boy's journey across India as he searches for a sacred buffalo bell stolen from his tribe.