wyszukanych pozycji: 4
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The American Wilderness: Reflections on Nature Protection in the United States
ISBN: 9780813923369 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Interpretations of wild nature and wilderness are particularly diverse in the American mind, given our history, our collective economic success, and our diverse social and cultural mix. Although the meanings we attribute to nature reflect our different views of the role humans should play in the natural world, there remains a divide between how we embrace protected landscapes and how we consider natural landscapes, or nature itself. Thomas Vale explores this phenomenon in The American Wilderness: Reflections on Nature Protection in the United States. In his examination of protected... Interpretations of wild nature and wilderness are particularly diverse in the American mind, given our history, our collective economic success, an... |
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228,96 |
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Walking with Muir Across Yosemite
ISBN: 9780299156947 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Does today s visitor trekking Yosemite National Park find it much different from what John Muir encountered a century ago? Thomas and Geraldine Vale retrace Muir s path, based upon journal descriptions of his activities and experiences during his first summer in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. From the foothills through Yosemite Valley and on up to the Tuolumne Meadows, the Vales follow the present roads and trails that crossed Muir s route, imagining his reaction to the landscape while reflecting on the natural world in both his time and ours.
Illustrated with drawings by John Muir and... Does today s visitor trekking Yosemite National Park find it much different from what John Muir encountered a century ago? Thomas and Geraldine Vale r...
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74,61 |
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Western Images, Western Landscapes: Travels Along U.S. 89
ISBN: 9780816511174 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 189 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
cena:
134,35 |
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Wisconsin Land and Life: A Portrait of the State
ISBN: 9780299153502 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 626 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Rolling green hills dotted with Holstein cows, red barns, and blue silos. The Great Lakes ports at Superior, Ashland, and Kenosha. A Polish wedding dance or a German biergarten in Milwaukee. The dappled quiet of the Chequamagon forest. A weatherbeaten but tidy town hall at the intersection of two county trunk highways. Ojibwa families gathering wild rice into canoes. The boat ride through the Dells. The upland ridges of the Driftless Area, falling away into hidden valleys. . . .
These are images of Wisconsin's land and life, images that evoke a strong sense of place. This book,... Rolling green hills dotted with Holstein cows, red barns, and blue silos. The Great Lakes ports at Superior, Ashland, and Kenosha. A Polish wedding da...
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cena:
278,74 |