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Across America : The Lewis and Clark Expedition
ISBN: 9780816052561 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2003, Americans began celebrating the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition (1803-1806), a journey of discovery that proved a seminal moment in the history of the exploration of the North American continent. With full coverage of the events leading to the Corps of Discovery's formation and its gripping adventures to the Pacific and back, Across America: The Lewis and Clark Expedition details the explorers' travels and trials. Tracing the various stages of their journey, it chronicles important factors and discusses everything from the founding of the exploration to the fates of...
In 2003, Americans began celebrating the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition (1803-1806), a journey of discovery that proved a seminal mome...
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156,09 |
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Wide Skies: Finding a Home in the West
ISBN: 9780816516735 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Like many other Americans, judging from the amount of predawn traffic, I am on the move, scurrying through the dark like a coyote, nose down in pursuit of something-my work, an ephemeral desire that has no name, a life, an end of restlessness, a true place in the world."
A true place in the world: how many people have looked for it and how many have finally found it in the American West? Here, with writer Gary Holthaus, readers will reflect upon their own sense of place as they travel the lands and enter the lives of people in small towns and on ranches all over the West from... "Like many other Americans, judging from the amount of predawn traffic, I am on the move, scurrying through the dark like a coyote, nose down ...
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82,88 |
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The Hanford Reach: A Land of Contrasts
ISBN: 9780816523764 / Angielski / Miękka / 79 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The desert country along the Columbia River is one of the West s least-known desert places one that most people don t even drive through unless they are unusually curious travelers. The Hanford Reach is the last free stretch of the river between the McNary and Priest Rapids Dams, a place boasting a varied landscape of floodplains, wetlands, deserts, orchards and nuclear reactors. This is not a place that people think to visit. Known primarily for hosting the country s most toxic nuclear outpost, it is public land that barely exists in public consciousness. But because the Reach has...
The desert country along the Columbia River is one of the West s least-known desert places one that most people don t even drive through unless...
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53,60 |
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A Guide Book to Highway 66: A Facsimile of the 1946 First Edition
ISBN: 9780826311481 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an exact facsimile of the first guidebook of its kind to the full length of the famous Route 66, from Chicago to Los Angeles. It was first published in 1946. Route 66 is part of American history now, and this guide is useful for those who wish to follow the old road in lieu of driving on the interstate highways that have replaced it. The book is divided into nine sections, corresponding to the journeys between stops by the average motorist. In addition, this structure makes the book useful to the traveler who wishes to follow only part of old US 66. Rittenhouse includes... This is an exact facsimile of the first guidebook of its kind to the full length of the famous Route 66, from Chicago to Los Angeles. It was first ... |
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48,73 |
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A Travel Guide to the Plains Indian Wars
ISBN: 9780826339348 / Angielski / Miękka / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The historical remains of nineteenth-century Western frontier military posts and battle sites of the Plains Indian wars are disappearing. Time and weather have taken their tolls, and many would have no traces left were it not for the worthy attention of local groups and city, state, and federal authorities.
"A Travel Guide to the Plains Indians Wars" provides a general overview of the Plains Indian wars; but it is particularly helpful for anyone planning a visit to the military posts and sites of battle. Stan Hoig has divided this writing into two distinct parts: first is a narrative of the... The historical remains of nineteenth-century Western frontier military posts and battle sites of the Plains Indian wars are disappearing. Time and wea...
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92,63 |
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Hiking North America's Great Western Volcanoes
ISBN: 9780865344327 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here is an excellent opportunity to learn about the volcanic events and landforms of the American West while hiking ten trails through its most scenic mountains. Hikes in New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, California, Oregon and Washington reveal the fury of past events and demonstrate the power of volcanic activity today. In this book and on the trails, geology and archaeology intersect to tell a tale of landforms rising from the earth and the ancient people's struggle to persist and adapt. Geologists have died studying volcanic eruptions. Native Americans wrote gods into their history while...
Here is an excellent opportunity to learn about the volcanic events and landforms of the American West while hiking ten trails through its most scenic...
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78,53 |
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Dust Devils
ISBN: 9780865344839 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dayton Lummis has lived a unique American life--as museum director in a mountain ghost town 9,500 feet high, as caretaker of an abandoned ranch surrounded by endless desert, as an inveterate wanderer pulled through vast empty landscapes that most Americans have never heard of, and will never see. And always-always--on his journeys, he takes back roads. The characters Lummis has met and interacted with along the way form a vivid rogues gallery of oddballs, misfits and losers, and he knows how to tell their stories. As a highly opinionated (his friends say grumpy) observer himself, Lummis gives...
Dayton Lummis has lived a unique American life--as museum director in a mountain ghost town 9,500 feet high, as caretaker of an abandoned ranch surrou...
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86,03 |
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Jefferson's Western Explorations: Discoveries Made in Exploring the Missouri, Red River and Washita....the Natchez Edition, 1806. a Facsimile.
ISBN: 9780870623356 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 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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195,11 |
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America's 100th Meridian: A Plains Journey
ISBN: 9780896725614 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "There's no denying Hartman's] abilities as a photographer. Shape, color, and light, he has an impeccable eye for composition, for juxtaposing line against line, drawing the viewer's eye into his subject. . . . In North Dakota, he likes a flood-drenched plain in orange twilight, one stretch of barbed wire fence in a strong horizontal, another triangulating stretch (just the fence posts visible above the water) disappearing into the distance. In South Dakota, he gives us a flat plain with alternating gold, green, and brown strips of field, a dark storm building overhead. . . . Accompanying...
"There's no denying Hartman's] abilities as a photographer. Shape, color, and light, he has an impeccable eye for composition, for juxtaposing line a...
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156,09 |
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Why Sacagawea Deserves the Day Off & Other Lessons from the Le Wis & Clark Trail
ISBN: 9780803215856 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More than two hundred years later, the voyage of discovery with its outsized characters, geographic marvels, and wondrous moments of adventure and mystery continues to draw us along the Lewis and Clark Trail. Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs first fell under the trail s spell at sixteen and has been following in Lewis and Clark s path ever since. In essays historical and personal, she revisits the Lewis and Clark Trail and its famous people, landmarks, and events, exploring questions the expedition continues to raise, such as, What really motivated Thomas Jefferson to send out his agents of discovery?...
More than two hundred years later, the voyage of discovery with its outsized characters, geographic marvels, and wondrous moments of adventure and mys...
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67,28 |
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A Ladies Life in the Rocky Mountains
ISBN: 9781605974286 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Isabella L Bird (1831 - 1904) was a 19th century British traveler and writer. Since her father was a Church of England priest the family moved many times during her childhood. Bird traveled to Colorado when she heard the air was very healthy. She covered the 800 miles on horseback riding like a man and not sidesaddle. During her adventure she wrote a series of letters home to her sister. These were published in the Leisure Hour magazine. The letters were later published in her most famous book A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains.
Isabella L Bird (1831 - 1904) was a 19th century British traveler and writer. Since her father was a Church of England priest the family moved many ti...
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79,56 |
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People of the Plains and Mountains: Essays in the History of the West Dedicated to Everett Dick
ISBN: 9780837163581 / Angielski / Twarda / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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385,09 |
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Travel Route 66: A Guide to the History, Sights, and Destinations Along the Main Street of America
ISBN: 9780760344309 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Long one of America's most cherished byways, Route 66 remains a popular tourist attraction and travel route for thousands of travelers every year. While stretches of the once-glorious road have been paved over or bypassed by the interstates, the journey from Chicago to Santa Monica along the path of the "double six" remains chock-full of unique roadside attractions, spectacular natural landscapes, and fascinating historical landmarks. Communities throughout each of the eight states touched by the "Main Street of America"--Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and...
Long one of America's most cherished byways, Route 66 remains a popular tourist attraction and travel route for thousands of travelers every year. Whi...
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101,17 |
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Some Like It Hot!: Yellowstone's Geysers and Hot Springs
ISBN: 9781606390061 / Angielski / Miękka / 127 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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93,52 |
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Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip Through the Land Art of the American West
ISBN: 9780226348469 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Erin Hogan hit the road in her Volkswagen Jetta and headed west from Chicago in search ofthe monuments of American land art: a salty coil of rocks, four hundred stainless steel poles, a gash in a mesa, four concrete tubes, and military sheds filled with cubes. Her journey took her through the states of Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. It also took her through the states of anxiety, drunkenness, disorientation, and heat exhaustion. "Spiral Jetta "is a chronicle of this journey. A lapsed art historian and devoted urbanite, Hogan initially sought firsthand experience of the... Erin Hogan hit the road in her Volkswagen Jetta and headed west from Chicago in search ofthe monuments of American land art: a salty coil of rocks,... |
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77,02 |
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In Search of the Golden West: The Tourist in Western America
ISBN: 9780803228207 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first transcontinental railroads brought fashionable easterners to the American West. In the 1880s and 1890s they traveled in sumptuous palace cars and stayed at luxury hotels. Westerners with an eye on promotion turned to what they took to be their own traditions. After 1900 a wilder West became popular; the Indian was rediscovered, and the cowboy returned to the saddle, if only during fiestas and rodeos. Increasing numbers of tourists headed for natural curiosities such as the sequoias of Yosemite and the geysers of Yellowstone. Then mass-produced automobiles and cheap air, rail, and...
The first transcontinental railroads brought fashionable easterners to the American West. In the 1880s and 1890s they traveled in sumptuous palace car...
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82,28 |
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Outlaw Tales of Utah: True Stories Of The Beehive State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, And Cutthroats, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780762759859 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of Utah, 2nd Edition. Ride with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, stagecoach, and train robbers. Duck the bullets of murderers, plot strategies with con artists, hiss at lawmen turned outlaws
Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of Utah, 2nd Edition. Ride with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, stagecoach, and trai...
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56,04 |
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Las Vegas: 2009
ISBN: 9781553416661 / Angielski / Mapa, składana Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,82 |
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The Padre Puzzle
ISBN: 9781453606797 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When the body of a Texas Ranger working undercover in Mexico as a member of a drug cartel is found dead on a South Padre Island beach, Jimmy Redstone, an injured Ranger spending time on the island, is pressured into unofficially investigating. After the local Coast Guard Chief lands in the hospital after trying to give Redstone information he uncovered pertaining to the murder, Redstone begins to believe that more is going on than simple drug smuggling. Angella Martinez, an attractive rookie, draws the assignment of staying close to Redstone. Between fighting his unprofessional feelings for...
When the body of a Texas Ranger working undercover in Mexico as a member of a drug cartel is found dead on a South Padre Island beach, Jimmy Redstone,...
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58,84 |
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America's Southwestern Treasures
ISBN: 9781452873299 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A concise guide to more than 170 archaeological sites created by the great southwestern cultures as well as 13 outstanding museums displaying their finest pieces. Listings describe the sites and note their locations, hours, fees and available services. A brief introduction summarizes the principal cultures and a unique rating system highlights 30 "must see" sites. State and culture indexes to plan your own adventures and suggested itineraries to make the most of your time in the southwest.
A concise guide to more than 170 archaeological sites created by the great southwestern cultures as well as 13 outstanding museums displaying their fi...
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62,78 |
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