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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
de Stegner, Wallace
- Usado
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Good Condition with slight wear
- ISBN 10
- 0149159943
- ISBN 13
- 9780149159944
- Librería
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Silver City, New Mexico, United States
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Sobre este artículo
This book recounts the story of John Wesley Powell, who explored the Grand Canyon, the Colorado River, and the lands of the Native Peoples who had lived in this area for centuries.
Sinopsis
In this book Wallace Stegner recounts the sucesses and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. A prophet without honor who had a profound understanding of the American West, Powell warned long ago of the dangers economic exploitation would pose to the West and spent a good deal of his life overcoming Washington politics in getting his message across. Only now, we may recognize just how accurate a prophet he was. "This book goes far beyond biography, into the nature and soul of the American West. It is Stegner at his best, assaying an entire era of our history, packing his pages with insights as shrewd as his prose." —Ivan Doig
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Detalles
- Librería
- High Desert Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 558
- Título
- Beyond the Hundredth Meridian
- Autor
- Stegner, Wallace
- Ilustrador
- Illustrated with black & white photos
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Bound in pictorial paper
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good Condition with slight wear
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0149159943
- ISBN 13
- 9780149159944
- Editorial
- Penguin Books; publisher
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1992
- Páginas
- 438 pages
- Tamaño
- 5in x 8in
- Palabras clave
- powell american west
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Western Americana; United States History; Biography;
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