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Across the Wide Missouri
ISBN: 9780395924976 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize. Across the Wide Missouri tells the compelling story of the climax and decline of the Rocky Mountain fur trade during the 1830s. More than a history, it portrays the mountain fur trade as a way of business and a way of life, vividly illustrating how it shaped the expansion of the American West.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize. Across the Wide Missouri tells the compelling story of the climax and decline of the Rocky Mounta...
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87,11 zł |
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The Year of Decision, 1846
ISBN: 9781773238098 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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63,20 zł |
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Devoto's West: History, Conservation, and the Public Good
ISBN: 9780804010726 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Social commentator and preeminent Western historian Bernard DeVoto vigorously defended public lands in the West against commercial interests. At his death in 1955, DeVoto had won both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes. But he was most famous for his eloquent writing that advocated conservation of America's prairies, rangeland, forests, mountains, canyons, and deserts.DeVoto's West: Essays on History, Conservation, and the Public Good showcases the complexity, depth, and breadth of DeVoto's thinking. Editor Edward K. Muller introduces these twenty-two essays (many of which originally appeared...
Social commentator and preeminent Western historian Bernard DeVoto vigorously defended public lands in the West against commercial interests. At his d...
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202,29 zł |
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The Western Paradox
ISBN: 9780300084238 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "This book is the fascinating record of DeVoto's crusade to save the West from itself. . . . His arguments, insights, and passion are as relevant and urgent today as they were when he first put them on paper."--Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., from the Foreword
Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955) was, according to the novelist Wallace Stegner, "a fighter for public causes, for conservation of our natural resources, for freedom of the press and freedom of thought." A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, DeVoto is best remembered for his trilogy, The Year of Decision: 1846, Across the Wide Missouri,... "This book is the fascinating record of DeVoto's crusade to save the West from itself. . . . His arguments, insights, and passion are as relevant and ...
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256,62 zł |
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The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto
ISBN: 9780982504802 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. One part celebration, one part history, two parts manifesto, Bernard DeVoto s The Hour is a comic and unequivocal treatise on how and why we drink properly. The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author turns his shrewd wit on the spirits and attitudes that cause his stomach to turn and his eyes to roll (Warning: this book is NOT for rum drinkers). DeVoto instructs his readers on how to drink like gentlemen and sheds new light on the simple joys of the cocktail hour. Daniel Handler s introduction to this reprint of the 1950s classic provides a humorous framework for the modern...
One part celebration, one part history, two parts manifesto, Bernard DeVoto s The Hour is a comic and unequivocal treatise on how and why we drink pro...
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73,86 zł |
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
ISBN: 9780140159943 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the "dean of Western writers" (The New York Times) and the Pulitzer Prize winning-author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety, a fascinating look at the old American West and the man who prophetically warned against the dangers of settling it In Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, 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...
From the "dean of Western writers" (The New York Times) and the Pulitzer Prize winning-author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to S...
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78,44 zł |
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Devoto's West: History, Conservation, and the Public Good
ISBN: 9780804010733 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Social commentator and preeminent Western historian Bernard DeVoto vigorously defended public lands in the West against commercial interests. At his death in 1955, DeVoto had won both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes. But he was most famous for his eloquent writing that advocated conservation of America's prairies, rangeland, forests, mountains, canyons, and deserts.DeVoto's West: Essays on History, Conservation, and the Public Good showcases the complexity, depth, and breadth of DeVoto's thinking. Editor Edward K. Muller introduces these twenty-two essays (many of which originally appeared...
Social commentator and preeminent Western historian Bernard DeVoto vigorously defended public lands in the West against commercial interests. At his d...
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103,69 zł |
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The Year of Decision 1846
ISBN: 9780312267940 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Year of Decision 1846 tells many fascinating stories of the U.S. explorers who began the western march from the Mississippi to the Pacific, from Canada to the annexation of Texas, California, and the southwest lands from Mexico. It is the penultimate book of a trilogy which includes Across the Wide Missouri (for which DeVoto won both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes) and The Course of Empire. DeVoto's narrative covers the expanding Western frontier, the Mormons, the Donner party, Fremont's exploration, the Army of the West, and takes readers into Native American tribal... Year of Decision 1846 tells many fascinating stories of the U.S. explorers who began the western march from the Mississippi to the Pacific, ... |
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152,47 zł |
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