American River Canyon
ISBN: 9781531663117 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The American River Canyon below Auburn is seen as a natural and scenic area but still contains signs of an extensive historical past. This includes historic bridges and bridge sites dating back to the 1850s. The 1849 Gold Rush brought 75 years of mining that ended after massive dredges worked the river for its gold in the 1910s. Unique to the canyon is the Mountain Quarries Railroad, which traveled its way across 17 trestles and an elegant, still-standing concrete bridge to reach the main line in Auburn. The long-stalled Auburn Dam is the latest incarnation of earlier dams, like the 1890s...
The American River Canyon below Auburn is seen as a natural and scenic area but still contains signs of an extensive historical past. This includes hi...
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Life on Route 66: Personal Accounts Along the Mother Road to California
ISBN: 9781540231680 / Angielski / Twarda / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Commerce of the Prairies, Volume 17
ISBN: 9780806110592 / Angielski / Miękka / 514 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volume 17 in the American Exploration and Travel Series " Commerce of the Prairies] has become established as the classic of the Santa Fe Trail and of life on the prairies at the time they were solidly turfed with primeval grass. The year 1954 will see no new book fresher in content or more vivid on the life and land of the Southwest than this first adequate reprint of Gregg's 'Commerce of the Prairies, ' edited - with wisdom as well as with knowledge - by Max L. Moorhead." - New York Times. "This newest and best edition of Josiah Gregg's classic is a welcome addition to the western bookshelf...
Volume 17 in the American Exploration and Travel Series " Commerce of the Prairies] has become established as the classic of the Santa Fe Trail and of...
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137,62 zł |
The Delight Makers: A Novel of Prehistoric Pueblo Indians
ISBN: 9780156252645 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author, an archaeologist who spent eight years among the Pueblo tribes of New Mexico, provides in fictional form an invaluable reconstruction of prehistoric Indian culture of the Southwest. Introduction by Stefan Jovanovich.
The author, an archaeologist who spent eight years among the Pueblo tribes of New Mexico, provides in fictional form an invaluable reconstruction of p...
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138,89 zł |
Guide to the Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps: And Mining Camps
ISBN: 9780804001403 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This is not a history book. Rather it is a directory of towns, and compilation of known information about those towns. In undertaking the stud, I was amazed at the amount of legend and contradictory information Colorado history has collected in just one hundred years. Who was it that said: 'History is the perpetuation of saleable gossip'? (Perhaps, nobody has said it yet. In that case, it's mine, all mine.)
"As of this moment, this is the most complete compilation of Colorado mining towns ghost or going available. "For the fourth edition, over 100 towns have been added. Also, I have... "This is not a history book. Rather it is a directory of towns, and compilation of known information about those towns. In undertaking the stud, I was...
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140,82 zł |
Lewis and Clark in the Illinois Country: The Little-Told Story
ISBN: 9781401057947 / Angielski / Twarda / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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143,55 zł |
Drive Through the Night: A Poetic Memoir on Taming, Reclaiming & Becoming Wild
ISBN: 9781956368109 / Angielski / Twarda / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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143,59 zł |
History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clarke, to the Sources of the Missouri ...: Performed During the Years 1804, 1805, 1806, by Order of the Government of the United Stat
ISBN: 9781275704831 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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144,23 zł |
History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clarke, to the Sources of the Missouri ...: Performed During the Years 1804, 1805, 1806, by Order of the Government of the United Stat
ISBN: 9781275700918 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Among the Indians: Eight Years in the Far West, 1858-1866: Embracing Sketches of Montana and Salt Lake.
ISBN: 9781275841598 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Historic Sites and Markers Along the Mormon and Other Great Western Trails
ISBN: 9780252014567 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Historic Sites and Markers" is an indispensable guide for travelers who wish to retrace the various frontier routes taken by the Mormons and other pioneers in their treks westward. Traversing fifteen states from New York to California, Stanley Kimball presents some of America's most famous trails - the Mormon, the Oregon-California, the Santa Fe, the Overland, and many others - and describes important points of interest, including forts, trail centers, and museums.
"Historic Sites and Markers" is an indispensable guide for travelers who wish to retrace the various frontier routes taken by the Mormons and other pi...
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152,83 zł |
Beyond the Mississippi: from the great river to the great ocean: life and adventure on the prairies, mountains, and Pacific Coast: with more than two hundred illustrations, from photographs and genera
ISBN: 9781275762121 / Angielski / Miękka / 594 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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152,92 zł |
On the Upper Missouri: The Journal of Rudolph Friederich Kurz, 1851-1852
ISBN: 9780806136554 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In late 1846, Rudolph Friederich Kurz, a young and idealistic Swiss artist, came to the United States to study and paint American Indians. Because he also had to earn a living, he signed on with the Pierre Chouteau Jr. Company (commonly known as the American Fur Company) and traveled northward on the Missouri River to work as a clerk at Fort Berthold and Fort Union in present-day North Dakota. While living among fur traders and Indians of numerous tribes, Kurz filled a sketchbook and kept a detailed journal. "On the Upper Missouri," an abridged and annotated version of his journal, is an... In late 1846, Rudolph Friederich Kurz, a young and idealistic Swiss artist, came to the United States to study and paint American Indians. Because ... |
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Weapons of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
ISBN: 9780806160511 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Sherman Tour Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge
ISBN: 9780806134253 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In summer 1883, General William Tecumseh Sherman took Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, his former aide-de-camp, with him on a 10,000-mile inspection tour across the northern tier of territories, on to the Pacific Northwest, south through California, and east through the Southwest to Denver. Dodge had no idea his journals would ever become public, so he wrote openly about his companions and their interactions, terrain and natural wonders, conditions of military posts, life in civilian communities, and what the future seemed to hold for the region and its changing population. In summer 1883, General William Tecumseh Sherman took Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, his former aide-de-camp, with him on a 10,000-mile inspection t... |
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Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California, in the Years 1843-44
ISBN: 9781108072274 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published together in 1846 for a British readership, these reports of two westward expeditions shed light on the challenges of exploration in nineteenth-century North America. Led by the army officer and future presidential candidate John Charles Fremont (1813 90), who became known as 'the Pathfinder', the first expedition ranged west of the Missouri River, while the second pushed beyond the Rocky Mountains, north to Fort Vancouver and then south into Mexican-held California. Fremont's detailed accounts are accessible to the non-specialist: this edition omits 'only the portions which are...
Published together in 1846 for a British readership, these reports of two westward expeditions shed light on the challenges of exploration in nineteen...
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160,74 zł |
Recent Terrains: Terraforming the American West - stan bdb 9780801864001
ISBN: A780801864001 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych Stan bardzo dobry - książka była czytana, ale jeszcze długo posłuży innym czytelnikom. Ma ślady używania - otwierania i kartkowania, rysy, zabrudzenia. Wygląda jak książka, którą wypożyczasz w bibliotece.
In 60 black-and-white panoramas, Brown documents the changing landscape along the western edge of Southern California. These stark, compelling images reveal a world scraped and reshaped by construction equipment, with boulders pushed aside, stretches of earth flattened, and high-tech communities springing to life. 60 duotones. Stan bardzo dobry - książka była czytana, ale jeszcze długo posłuży innym czytelnikom. Ma ślady używania - otwierania i kartkowania, rysy, zab...
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Nel West: Attraverso le Montagne Rocciose, il Sud-Ovest, i Deserti della California meridionale
ISBN: 9781729067956 / Włoski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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166,43 zł |
This Land: A Guide to Western National Forests
ISBN: 9780520239678 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Part armchair travelogue, part guide book, this projected three-volume series--divided into the western, central, and eastern United States--will introduce readers to all 155 national forests across the country. This Land is the only comprehensive field guide that describes the natural features, wildernesses, scenic drives, campgrounds, and hiking trails of our national forests, many of which--while little known and sparsely visited--boast features as spectacular as those found in our national parks and monuments. Each entry includes logistical information about size and location,...
Part armchair travelogue, part guide book, this projected three-volume series--divided into the western, central, and eastern United States--will intr...
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169,26 zł |
An Alaskan Adventure: A Travelogue and Environmental Treatise
ISBN: 9781643455167 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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170,46 zł |