ilość książek w kategorii: 1317
Bridges of Portland
ISBN: 9780738548760 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Portland is an inland port city that rose to importance in the mid-19th century as a major shipping point for the Pacific Northwest's wheat, lumber, and other commodities. The Columbia and Willamette Rivers enabled seagoing vessels to reach the port, but they also presented obstacles to local travel and commerce. Willamette River ferry service was available by 1853, but Portlanders had to wait until 1887 for a bridge. The first was the Morrison Bridge, followed by the Steel Bridge in 1888, the Madison Bridge was in 1891, and the Burnside Bridge in 1894. These bridges helped Portland grow from...
Portland is an inland port city that rose to importance in the mid-19th century as a major shipping point for the Pacific Northwest's wheat, lumber, a...
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107,85 zł |
It Happened in Seattle: Remarkable Events That Shaped History
ISBN: 9780762743681 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A fascinating collection of thirty compelling stories about events that shaped the Emerald City, It Happened in Seattle describes everything from the battle of Seattle in 1856 to the Nisqually earthquake of 2001.
A fascinating collection of thirty compelling stories about events that shaped the Emerald City, It Happened in Seattle describes everything from the ...
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64,51 zł |
The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River
ISBN: 9780809015832 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. In this pioneering study, White explores the relationship between the natural history of the Columbia River and the human history of the Pacific Northwest for both whites and Native Americans. He concentrates on what brings humans and the river together: not only the physical space of the region but also, and primarily, energy and work. For working with the river has been central to Pacific Northwesterners' competing ways of life. It is in this way that... The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. In this pi... |
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73,36 zł |
Exploring Camano Island: A History & Guide
ISBN: 9781540209696 / Angielski / Twarda / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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138,05 zł |
Lee Boo of Belau: A Prince in London
ISBN: 9780824832308 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the story of the adventures of a Pacific island prince, Lee Boo, one of the first of the noble savages to be feted by London society. Within six months of his arrival in England he fell victim to small pox and died, far from his island home. How he came to spend his last days in London beside the Thames is a fascinating story, yet this is the first time the events that surrounded him have been detailed. In 1783 a packet ship of the East India Company was wrecked on the reefs off Belau (Palau) in the western Pacific. When its captain returned to England nearly a year later he... This is the story of the adventures of a Pacific island prince, Lee Boo, one of the first of the noble savages to be feted by London society. Withi... |
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126,27 zł |
Fort Limhi, Volume 6: The Mormon Adventure in Oregon Territory 1855-1858
ISBN: 9780870623240 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library.
For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publis...
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247,66 zł |
Forgotten Trails: Historical Sources of the Columbia's Big Bend Country
ISBN: 9780874221169 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Indian inhabitants laid out the basic travel routes in central Washington's Grand Coulee country probably 10,000 to 12,000 years ago. In the early 1800s, the semi-nomadic Sinkiuse and other Native Americans continued to use these routes through the spectacular coulees. Following in their footsteps came a host of white explorers and frontiersmen - at first in a trickle, then in greater numbers by mid-century. Forgotten Trails is a compilation of the most significant firsthand accounts of travel through the region. Included here are the writings of explorers, fur traders, missionaries, railroad...
Indian inhabitants laid out the basic travel routes in central Washington's Grand Coulee country probably 10,000 to 12,000 years ago. In the early 180...
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94,72 zł |
Crooked River Country: Wranglers, Rogues, and Barons
ISBN: 9780874222937 / Angielski / Miękka / 331 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Crooked River Country is a sweeping account of north central Oregon's thrilling history, primarily the years between 1800 and 1950. Bordered by intimidating natural barriers, the rough country and harsh winters produced equally hardy inhabitants. Legends include Billy Chinook, Chief Paulina, Elisha Barnes, James M. Blakely, Newt Williamson, James J. Hill, Johnnie Hudspeth, and Les Schwab. In the early 1800s, only Native Americans, fur trappers, military expeditions, and missionaries roamed the forbidding setting, but after mid-century, pioneer families discovered lush pastures nestled in the...
Crooked River Country is a sweeping account of north central Oregon's thrilling history, primarily the years between 1800 and 1950. Bordered by intimi...
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107,67 zł |
Starting Over: Community Building on the Eastern Oregon Frontier
ISBN: 9780875952949 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prior to the early 1870s, Oregon's Long Creek Valley was an isolated oasis of bunch grass and wildlife surrounded by rugged, heavily timbered mountains. Among the valley's first white settlers, lured by the abundance of grass and water, were William F. Willingham's great-grandparents. During summer visits as a child, he listened to his elderly relatives' stories about growing up on the frontier. In Starting Over, the author draws on a range of sources to bring to life the people who scratched out a community based on cattle and sheep raising, kinship ties, and shared social... Prior to the early 1870s, Oregon's Long Creek Valley was an isolated oasis of bunch grass and wildlife surrounded by rugged, heavily timbered mount... |
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97,18 zł |
Roadside History of Oregon
ISBN: 9780878422524 / Angielski / Miękka / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Join the excitement of discovery in Oregon-from its high desert plateau and majestic mountain peaks to its storm-wracked coast and the depths of the Columbia Gorge. The stirring, colorful stories of Oregon's empire builders are told here with skill and style by a man who has spent a lifetime writing about the Pacific Northwest
Join the excitement of discovery in Oregon-from its high desert plateau and majestic mountain peaks to its storm-wracked coast and the depths of the C...
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103,57 zł |
Postmistress-Mora, Wash. 1914-1915: Journal Entries and Photographs of Fannie Taylor
ISBN: 9780914019572 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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77,46 zł |
Amazing Pipeline Stories: How Building the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Transformed Life in America's Last Frontier
ISBN: 9780945397465 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 1970s the world's largest construction companies invaded Alaska in a wild rush to build the 800-mile, $10 billion trans-Alaska pipeline. The resulting rapid economic and social change touched every Alaskan.
In the 1970s the world's largest construction companies invaded Alaska in a wild rush to build the 800-mile, $10 billion trans-Alaska pipeline. The re...
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73,14 zł |
Crude Dreams: A Personal History of Oil and Politics in Alaska
ISBN: 9780945397601 / Angielski / Miękka / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In February 1968, the rumors became reality: An ARCO drilling rig has struck oil -- lots of oil -- on Alaska's remote North Slope. Jack Roderick's story of oil and politics in Alaska reads like a novel as he tells of the risky, expensive, and mostly frustrating search for oil across the 49th state. Oil companies watch one another jealously. Small independents and the new state struggle to share in the action dominated by huge multi-national oil companies. Gov. Bill Egan, the shy grocer from Valdez, stands up to the industry, seeking the largest possible share of oil revenues for Alaskans.
In February 1968, the rumors became reality: An ARCO drilling rig has struck oil -- lots of oil -- on Alaska's remote North Slope. Jack Roderick's sto...
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107,67 zł |
Essentially Ashland...The Missing Years
ISBN: 9781425974923 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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102,45 zł |
Exxon Valdez 18 Years and Counting
ISBN: 9781430322832 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Montgomery County jury returned a verdict in December 2000, finding that Exxon defrauded Alabama on royalties from natural gas wells in state waters. The jury awarded the state $87.7 million in compensatory damages and $3.42 billion in punitive damages (Athan Manuel, 2007). 3.42 billion in punitive damages awarded in the Alabama case is virtually 1 billion more than the award set by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for us Plaintiff's in the Exxon Valdez and this was for stealing oil. How can it be that we the plaintiff's of the Exxon Valdez, rate below theft? Does stealing outweigh the...
A Montgomery County jury returned a verdict in December 2000, finding that Exxon defrauded Alabama on royalties from natural gas wells in state waters...
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128,13 zł |
In a Far Country
ISBN: 9781586485085 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the fall of 1897, eight whaling ships became trapped in the ice on Alaska's northern coast. Without relief, two hundred whalers would starve to death by winter's end. Mercifully, an extraordinary missionary, Tom Lopp, and seven Eskimo herders embarked on a harrowing journey to save the whalers, driving four hundred reindeer more than seven hundred untracked miles.
At the heart of the rescue expedition lies another, in some ways more compelling, journey. "In a Far Country" is the personal odyssey of Tom and his wife Ellen Lopp-- their commitment to the natives and the rugged but happy... In the fall of 1897, eight whaling ships became trapped in the ice on Alaska's northern coast. Without relief, two hundred whalers would starve to dea...
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107,85 zł |
Willamette Valley Railways
ISBN: 9780738556017 / Angielski / Miękka / 127 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Willamette Valley Railways tells the story of the electric interurban railways that ran through Oregon s Willamette Valley and of the streetcars that operated in the towns they served. Long before modern light rail vehicles, electric trains were providing Portland and the Willamette Valley with reliable, elegant transportation that was second to none. Between 1908 and 1915, two large systems, the Oregon Electric Railway and the Southern Pacific Red Electrics, joined smaller competitors constructing railways throughout the region. Portland became the hub of an impressive interurban network in...
Willamette Valley Railways tells the story of the electric interurban railways that ran through Oregon s Willamette Valley and of the streetcars that ...
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107,85 zł |
Seattle and the Demons of Ambition: From Boom to Bust in the Number One City of the Future
ISBN: 9780312334000 / Angielski / Miękka / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Founded in 1851 as a four-cabin outpost named "New York Pretty-Soon," Seattle has long struggled with an identity crisis. From a nearly lawless port, to a sedate, conventional company town defined by Boeing Aircraft, to an accessible paradise for artists and recovering urbanites, Seattle repeatedly tried and failed to become bigger, wealthier, more like "major league" cities. In the late 1980s, Seattle's time suddenly arrived. Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks, McCaw Cellular/AT&T Wireless, and dozens of local dot.com startups began to drive a booming national economy. Seattle became a... Founded in 1851 as a four-cabin outpost named "New York Pretty-Soon," Seattle has long struggled with an identity crisis. From a nearly lawless por... |
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103,53 zł |
Wicked Portland: The Wild and Lusty Underworld of a Frontier Seaport Town
ISBN: 9781540206916 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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138,05 zł |
Frontier Legacy: History of the Olympic National Forest 1897 to 1960
ISBN: 9780914019589 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,51 zł |