ilość książek w kategorii: 1112
A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time
ISBN: 9780300063974 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. J.B. Jackson, a pioneer in the field of landscape studies, here takes us on a tour of American landscapes past and present, showing how our surroundings reflect important changes in our culture. Because we live in urban and industrial environments that are constantly evolving, says Jackson, time and movement are increasingly important to us and place and permanence are less so. We no longer gain a feeling of community from where we live or where we assemble but from common work hours, habits, and customs. Jackson examines the new vernacular landscape of trailers, parking lots, trucks,...
J.B. Jackson, a pioneer in the field of landscape studies, here takes us on a tour of American landscapes past and present, showing how our surroundin...
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109,83 zł |
New Mexico Warbird Survivors 2002: A Handbook on where to find them
ISBN: 9780595224265 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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69,33 zł |
Arizona Warbird Survivors 2002: A Handbook on where to find them
ISBN: 9780595238811 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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95,41 zł |
The Best Bike Paths of the Southwest: Safe, Scenic, and Traffic-Free Bicycling
ISBN: 9780684814001 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cycling the open road has its pleasures but it can also be intimidating, especially for the novice or the parent with young children. Fortunately, there's another option for those cyclists who have something a little more peaceful and recreational in mind: the paved bike path. Free of cars, red lights, and exhaust fumes, recreational paths are popping up everywhere. In The Best Bike Paths of the Southwest, Wendy Williams has done you the favor of finding them in advance.Organized by state, The Best Bike Paths of the Southwest is the only comprehensive listing of these community treasures,...
Cycling the open road has its pleasures but it can also be intimidating, especially for the novice or the parent with young children. Fortunately, the...
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73,68 zł |
Hiking Colorado's Indian Peaks Wilderness
ISBN: 9780762711079 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lace up your boots and sample thirty-eight of the best trails in Colorado's Indian Peaks Wilderness. One of America's most popular wilderness areas, Indian Peaks is a hiker's delight within easy driving distance of Colorado Springs, Denver, Boulder, and Fort Collins. Veteran hiker and outdoor writer Bob D'Antonio will introduce you to the area's dramatic mountain peaks, stunning alpine lakes, and flower-filled meadows. Inside you'll find: up-to-date trail information; difficulty ratings for each hike; easy-to-read maps and photos of trails; recommended hikes by category.
Lace up your boots and sample thirty-eight of the best trails in Colorado's Indian Peaks Wilderness. One of America's most popular wilderness areas, I...
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54,86 zł |
Road Biking New Mexico
ISBN: 9780762711901 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the High Road to Taos to the dunes of White Sands National Park, experience the incredible landscapes of New Mexico on two wheels. Grab this guidebook, put on your helmet, and hit the road on forty carefully designed tours, which vary in length from 15 miles to 100 miles and cover a whole range of abilities and fitness levels.
Inside you'll discover: detailed profiles of each ride, including traffic conditions, terrain, and length; vivid descriptions of points of interest; listings for local restaurants, hotels, bike shops, and rest rooms along the way; USGS-based maps and elevation... From the High Road to Taos to the dunes of White Sands National Park, experience the incredible landscapes of New Mexico on two wheels. Grab this guid...
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82,37 zł |
Mountain Biking Denver and Boulder
ISBN: 9780762724673 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Denver-Boulder area has long been known for its superb recreational opportunities for outdoor enthusiasts, and mountain biking is no exception. Hundreds of miles of magnificent singletrack, fire and logging roads, and trails criss-cross the Front Range. The only problem is finding them Author Bob D'Antonio describes 50 of the area's top mountain-biking destinations. The ride descriptions include concise directions, difficulty ratings, and trail maps, all inside a conveniently compact book. This revised and expanded edition includes 11 new rides not included in the top-selling first...
The Denver-Boulder area has long been known for its superb recreational opportunities for outdoor enthusiasts, and mountain biking is no exception. Hu...
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49,37 zł |
Rock Climbing Utah's Wasatch Range
ISBN: 9780762727308 / Angielski / Miękka / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book compiles the results of 70 years of rock climbing in Utah's Wasatch Range, including Little Cottonwood Canyon, Big Cottonwood Canyon, Lone Peak, and other climbing locales near Salt Lake City. It features detailed topos, route descriptions, difficulty and quality ratings, and accurate location maps. Indexes by route name and rating allow quick access to over 1,500 routes described in this authoritative volume.
This book compiles the results of 70 years of rock climbing in Utah's Wasatch Range, including Little Cottonwood Canyon, Big Cottonwood Canyon, Lone P...
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164,75 zł |
A Falconguide(r) to Saguaro National Park and the Santa Catalina Mountains
ISBN: 9780762734191 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This guide covers the extensive trail networks within the Tucson Mountain and Rincon Mountain units of Saguaro National Park, along with the Pusch Ridge Wilderness and the Santa Catalina Mountains in the Coronado National Forest. Camping, alpine skiing, cross-country skiing and snowshoeing, rock climbing, and mountain biking are also covered.
This guide covers the extensive trail networks within the Tucson Mountain and Rincon Mountain units of Saguaro National Park, along with the Pusch Rid...
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64,98 zł |
Glacier: A Natural History Guide, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780762735693 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Author and naturalist David Rockwell explains the evolution of the park's geology from the erosion of Australian mountains more than a billion years ago to the glaciers that gave Glacier National Park its distinctive landscape. He explores the natural history of the plants and animals of the park's six distinct regions. You'll learn about the park's greatest predators, grizzly bears, mountain lions, and wolves, and about their complex relationship with their prey. The result is a fascinating and intimate portrait of one of the world's last truly wild places.
Author and naturalist David Rockwell explains the evolution of the park's geology from the erosion of Australian mountains more than a billion years a...
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76,83 zł |
A Falconguide(r) to Dinosaur National Monument
ISBN: 9780762736492 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A visit to Dinosaur National Monument, which straddles the Colorado-Utah border along the Yampa River, does not have to stop with viewing the excavated fossils in the quarry. Biking, bird watching, camping, rock climbing, hiking, cross-country skiing, and paddling possibilities abound in this remarkable and ancient landscape. The authors use their years of experience at Dinosaur to guide readers to the best recreational opportunities and provide an appreciation of the monument's natural history.
A visit to Dinosaur National Monument, which straddles the Colorado-Utah border along the Yampa River, does not have to stop with viewing the excavate...
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64,98 zł |
Home Below Hell's Canyon
ISBN: 9780803251076 / Angielski / Miękka / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the depression days of the early 1930s the Jordan family-Len Jordan (later governor of Idaho and a United States senator), his wife Grace, and their three small children-moved to an Idaho sheep ranch in the Snake River gorge just below Hell's Canyon, the deepest scratch on the face of North America. "Cut off from the world for months at a time, the Jordans became virtually self-sufficient. Short of cash but long on courage, they raised and preserved their food, made their own soap, and educated their children."-Sterling North, New York World-Telegram "Home Below Hell's Canyon is...
During the depression days of the early 1930s the Jordan family-Len Jordan (later governor of Idaho and a United States senator), his wife Grace, and ...
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78,20 zł |
Wyoming: A Guide to Its History, Highways, and People
ISBN: 9780803268548 / Angielski / Miękka / 555 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in the famous American Guide Series of the Work Projects Administration in 1941, Wyoming: A Guide remains a distinguished survey of the state, its centers of interest, and its history. Now issued in paperback for the first time, it can introduce to new readers the geographic spectacle and pioneer history that continue to shape the character of Wyoming. A new introduction by T. A. Larson, author of History of Wyoming, updates the Guide and evaluates changes seen in the state since the book was first published. Valuable to the resident as a reference to the state's many...
First published in the famous American Guide Series of the Work Projects Administration in 1941, Wyoming: A Guide remains a distinguished survey of th...
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130,19 zł |
Cripple Creek Days
ISBN: 9780803279124 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mabel Barbee Lee has written a rousing tale of early days in Cripple Creek, Colorado. She speaks with authority because she arrived there as a child in 1892, and with wide-eyed wonder saw the whole place turn to gold. With his divining rod, Mabel's father tapped gold ore on Beacon Hill but missed becoming a millionaire by selling his claim short. Nonetheless, life was rich for young Mabel in a booming town with points of interest like Poverty Gulch, the Continental Hotel, and a fantastic house called Finn's Folly; with characters around like the promoter Windy Joe and (seen from a distance)...
Mabel Barbee Lee has written a rousing tale of early days in Cripple Creek, Colorado. She speaks with authority because she arrived there as a child i...
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83,42 zł |
Colorado Gem Trails: And Mineral Guide
ISBN: 9780804009560 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This famous book takes you on an extensive gem and mineral collecting tour of Colorado, revealing the interesting places where Nature has stored her treasures.
Detailed directions are given for reaching the noted as well as the little-known localities in all sections of this great mineral-producing state. Included are numerous mileage logs never before published, and many sketch maps made especially for this book. A unique system arranges the localities along segments of the main highways. Latest information is given on local travel and collecting conditions and land ownership, so... This famous book takes you on an extensive gem and mineral collecting tour of Colorado, revealing the interesting places where Nature has stored her t...
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78,20 zł |
A Guide to Southern Arizona's Historic Farms & Ranches: Rustic Southwest Retreats
ISBN: 9781540206589 / Angielski / Twarda / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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139,06 zł |
Native Americans of the Southwest : The Serious Traveler's Introduction To Peoples and Places
ISBN: 9780813322797 / Angielski / Miękka / 175 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This guide to the Native Americans of the Southwest is a concise but comprehensive introduction that gives readers a sound anthropological and historical background to the area and fosters an appreciation of the Native American peoples who continue to make the Southwest their home. The authors offer individual sections on the main prehistoric and contemporary peoples of the region, describing their ways of life, their art, and their cultural monuments.For those eager to see at least some of these cultural monuments and to learn about Native American cultures from the many museums that dot the...
This guide to the Native Americans of the Southwest is a concise but comprehensive introduction that gives readers a sound anthropological and histori...
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198,19 zł |
Arizona Place Names
ISBN: 9780816510740 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Will Croft Barnes (1858 1937) first came to Arizona as a cavalryman and went on to become a rancher, state legislator, and conservationist. From 1905 to 1935, his travels throughout the state, largely on horseback, enabled him to gather the anecdotes and geographical information that came to constitute Arizona Place Names.
For this first toponymic encyclopedia of Arizona, Barnes compiled information from published histories, federal and state government documents, and reminiscences of "old timers, Indians, Mexicans, cowboys, sheep-herders, historians, any and everybody who... Will Croft Barnes (1858 1937) first came to Arizona as a cavalryman and went on to become a rancher, state legislator, and conservationist. Fro...
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152,15 zł |
The WPA Guide to 1930s New Mexico
ISBN: 9780816511020 / Angielski / Miękka / 580 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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159,53 zł |
On the Rim: Looking for the Grand Canyon
ISBN: 9780816627851 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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109,50 zł |