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How the Canyon Became Grand : A Short History
de Pyne, Stephen J
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670881104
- ISBN 13
- 9780670881109
- Librería
-
Hyde, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Viking, 1998. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor bumping to spine ends and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight creasing to spine ends. 199pp. How America's Grand Canyon progressed from 'worthless' in the eyes of the first Spanish explorers in the sixteenth cenrury to being one of the acnowledged natural wonders of the world today.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8.75 x 5.75 inches.
Sinopsis
Dismissed by the first Spanish explorers as a wasteland, the Grand Canyon lay virtually unnoticed for three centuries until nineteenth- century America rediscovered it and seized it as a national emblem. This extraordinary work of intellectual and environmental history tells two tales of the Canyon: the discovery and exploration of the physical Canyon and the invention and evolution of the cultural Canyon--how we learned to endow it with mythic significance. Acclaimed historian Stephen Pyne examines the major shifts in Western attitudes toward nature, and recounts the achievements of explorers, geologists, artists, and writers, from John Wesley Powell to Wallace Stegner , and how they transformed the Canyon into a fixture of national identity. This groundbreaking book takes us on a completely original journey through the Canyon toward a new understanding of its niche in the American psyche, a journey that mirrors the making of the nation itself.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Godley Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 010916
- Título
- How the Canyon Became Grand : A Short History
- Autor
- Pyne, Stephen J
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670881104
- ISBN 13
- 9780670881109
- Editorial
- Viking
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1998
- Palabras clave
- Geology, Geography, Archaeology, Arizona, America, Tourism, History
- Catálogos del vendedor
- History; Archaeology; Nature;
- Size
- 8.75 x 5.75 inches
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