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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America [Theodore]
de Egan, Timothy
- Usado
- Bien
- Tapa blanda
- First
- Estado
- Bien
- ISBN 10
- 0547394608
- ISBN 13
- 9780547394602
- Librería
-
Webster, New York, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Mariner Books, 2010. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Good. 5x0x8. 1st printing. Sticker remnant to spine, smudge to bottom ridge. 2010 Trade Paperback. 352 pp. "On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno. Forest rangers had assembled nearly ten thousand men—college boys, day workers, immigrants from mining camps—to fight the fire. But no living person had seen anything like those flames, and neither the rangers nor anyone else knew how to subdue them. Egan narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire with unstoppable dramatic force. Equally dramatic is the larger story he tells of outsized president Teddy Roosevelt and his chief forester, Gifford Pinchot. Pioneering the notion of conservation, Roosevelt and Pinchot did nothing less than create the idea of public land as our national treasure, owned by and preserved for every citizen.
Sinopsis
On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno. Forest rangers had assembled nearly ten thousand men—college boys, day workers, immigrants from mining camps—to fight the fire. But no living person had seen anything like those flames, and neither the rangers nor anyone else knew how to subdue them. Egan narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire with unstoppable dramatic force. Equally dramatic is the larger story he tells of outsized president Teddy Roosevelt and his chief forester, Gifford Pinchot. Pioneering the notion of conservation, Roosevelt and Pinchot did nothing less than create the idea of public land as our national treasure, owned by and preserved for every citizen.
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- Librería
- Yesterday's Muse Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 2333070
- Título
- The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America [Theodore]
- Autor
- Egan, Timothy
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Trade Paperback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bien
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st Printing
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0547394608
- ISBN 13
- 9780547394602
- Editorial
- Mariner Books
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2010
- Tamaño
- 5x0x8
- Palabras clave
- AMERICAN FORESTRY FIRES FOREST THEODORE ROOSEVELT NATURAL HISTORY
- X weight
- 12 oz
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- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
