Oak Flat

Author : Lauren Redniss
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780399589737

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Oak Flat by Lauren Redniss Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A powerful work of visual nonfiction about three generations of an Apache family struggling to protect sacred land from a multinational mining corporation, by MacArthur “Genius” and National Book Award finalist Lauren Redniss, the acclaimed author of Thunder & Lightning “Brilliant . . . virtuosic . . . a master storyteller of a new order.”—Eliza Griswold, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS Oak Flat is a serene high-elevation mesa that sits above the southeastern Arizona desert, fifteen miles to the west of the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation. For the San Carlos tribe, Oak Flat is a holy place, an ancient burial ground and religious site where Apache girls celebrate the coming-of-age ritual known as the Sunrise Ceremony. In 1995, a massive untapped copper reserve was discovered nearby. A decade later, a law was passed transferring the area to a private company, whose planned copper mine will wipe Oak Flat off the map—sending its natural springs, petroglyph-covered rocks, and old-growth trees tumbling into a void. Redniss’s deep reporting and haunting artwork anchor this mesmerizing human narrative. Oak Flat tells the story of a race-against-time struggle for a swath of American land, which pits one of the poorest communities in the United States against the federal government and two of the world’s largest mining conglomerates. The book follows the fortunes of two families with profound connections to the contested site: the Nosies, an Apache family whose teenage daughter is an activist and leader in the Oak Flat fight, and the Gorhams, a mining family whose patriarch was a sheriff in the lawless early days of Arizona statehood. The still-unresolved Oak Flat conflict is ripped from today’s headlines, but its story resonates with foundational American themes: the saga of westward expansion, the resistance and resilience of Native peoples, and the efforts of profiteers to control the land and unearth treasure beneath it while the lives of individuals hang in the balance.

Author : Lauren Redniss
Publisher : Random House
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780679644729

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Thunder & Lightning by Lauren Redniss Pdf

Note: This eBook file contains many richly detailed full-color images and makes use of unconventional page layouts. Because of this, readers will be required to zoom in on each page to read the text and see the finer detail of the artwork. [It has not been optimized for devices that display only in black and white.] From the National Book Award finalist Lauren Redniss, author of Radioactive, comes a dazzling fusion of storytelling, visual art, and reportage that grapples with weather in all its dimensions: its danger and its beauty, why it happens and what it means. WINNER OF THE PEN/E. O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, KIRKUS REVIEWS, AND SHELF AWARENESS Weather is the very air we breathe—it shapes our daily lives and alters the course of history. In Thunder & Lightning, Lauren Redniss tells the story of weather and humankind through the ages. This wide-ranging work roams from the driest desert on earth to a frigid island in the Arctic, from the Biblical flood to the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Redniss visits the headquarters of the National Weather Service, recounts top-secret rainmaking operations during the Vietnam War, and examines the economic impact of disasters like Hurricane Katrina. Drawing on extensive research and countless interviews, she examines our own day and age, from our most personal decisions—Do I need an umbrella today?—to the awesome challenges we face with global climate change. Redniss produced each element of Thunder & Lightning: the text, the artwork, the covers, and every page in between. She created many of the images using the antiquated printmaking technique copper plate photogravure etching. She even designed the book’s typeface. The result is a book unlike any other: a spellbinding combination of storytelling, art, and science. Praise for Thunder & Lightning “[An] aesthetically charged and deeply researched account . . . a wild rainstorm of a book, pelting the reader with ideas and inspiration.”—Nature “A gorgeous and illuminating illustrated study of weather in all its tempestuous variety . . . Redniss’s combo of fact, folklore, and vibrant etched copperplate prints enthralls.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “Eerily beautiful . . . Contains plenty of scientific explanation (including more than a few nods toward global warming), but also far-flung personal stories that illuminate the beauty, wonder and chaos inherent in the elements.”—The New York Times “Magical . . . Redniss has . . . shown us how human beings live with nature—fighting, coexisting, taming, predicting via leech barometer and radar and intuition.”—The New York Times Book Review “[A] twenty-first-century genius . . . The reader willing to put herself fully in Redniss’s hands will be rewarded with a delicious feeling of being enveloped by a phenomenon that eclipses the chiming trivialities of daily life.”—Elle “Redniss is one of the most creative science writers of our time—her combination of beautiful artwork, reporting, and poetic prose brings science to life in ways that words alone simply cannot.”—Rebecca Skloot “Redniss combines her own dual punch of expressive art and impressive erudition to give an entirely new take on all that happens above our heads.”—Adam Gopnik “A strange and wonderful thing, the work of a first-class mind that refuses to submit to any categories or precedent.”—Dave Eggers

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1372 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Names, Geographical
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004621152

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California Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Macfarlane,Stanley Donwood,Dan Richards
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781324015833

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Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places by Robert Macfarlane,Stanley Donwood,Dan Richards Pdf

A hauntingly beautiful diptych of works inspired by Robert Macfarlane’s travels with celebrated collaborators to two eerie corners of England. In Holloway, "a perfect miniature prose-poem" (William Dalrymple), Macfarlane, artist Stanley Donwood, and writer Dan Richards travel to Dorset, near the south coast of England, to explore a famed "hollowed way"—a path used by walkers and riders for so many centuries that it has become worn far down into the soft golden bedrock of the region. In Ness, "a triumphant libretto of mythic modernism for our poisoned age" (Max Porter), Macfarlane and Donwood create a modern myth about Orford Ness, the ten-mile-long shingle spit that lies off the coast of East Anglia, which the British government used for decades to conduct secret weapons tests.

Author : Richard Hood
Publisher : Down & Out Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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White Oak Flats by Richard Hood Pdf

Old-Time Mountain Song There’s a place in Tennessee, just across the line, No one ever goes up there, it’s too rough a climb, You won’t find the name or place wrote on any map, Folks down here ’round Shelton’s Trace calls it White Oak Flats. Hazel Taylor was my wife, and I loved her so, We was married on Shelton’s Trace, fifteen years ago, Now I lie here all alone, wonderin’ on the past, Wonderin’ why she left our home to go to White Oak Flats. I don’t know how he looked at her, I don’t know what he said, I don’t know what he could have done, to turn poor Hazel’s head, Never in her darkest hour, could she imagine that, She’d agree to go with him, up to White Oak Flats. I can see the rocky trail up the mountain side, I can see poor Hazel, now, lying by his side, Folks down here still talks about how it come to pass, Nothing but the silence now, up on White Oak Flats. Hazel Tighrow is a woman born far back in the Appalachian Mountains, in the early decades of the Twentieth Century, who explodes all the stereotypes. Where she “should” be an unlettered drudge, ready to marry young, and produce ten children, she is, instead, a reflective, self-taught, well-read, and sensitive young woman, who desperately wants the freedom to grow into herself. Still, because she is so aware, she knows whence she comes, and tries to fit-in as best she can. She eventually marries a caring young man, George Taylor, and does what she can to settle-in to the life of the mountains. Listen to the author’s recording of the White Oak Flats song played on a fretless gourd-banjo, in the old two-finger style on YouTube.

Author : James Canton
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780063037977

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The Oak Papers by James Canton Pdf

"A profound meditation on the human need for connection with nature, as one man seeks solace beneath the bows of an ancient oak tree."—Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees "James Canton knows so much, writes so well and understands so deeply about the true forest magic and the important place these trees have in it. Knowledge and joy."— Sara Maitland, author of How to Be Alone Joining the ranks of The Hidden Life of Trees and H is for Hawk, an evocative memoir and ode to one of the most majestic living things on earth—the oak tree—probing the mysteries of nature and the healing role it plays in our lives. Thrown into turmoil by the end of his long-term relationship, Professor James Canton spent two years meditating [PA1]beneath the welcoming shelter of the massive 800-year-old Honywood Oak tree in North Essex, England. While considering the direction of his own life, he began to contemplate the existence of this colossus tree. Standing in England for centuries, the oak would have been a sapling when the Magna Carta was signed in 1215. In this beautiful, transportive book, Canton tells the story of this tree in its ecological, spiritual, literary, and historical contexts, using it as a prism to see his own life and human history. The Oak Papers is a reflection on change and transformation, and the role nature has played in sustaining and redeeming us. Canton examines our long-standing dependency on the oak, and how that has developed and morphed into myth and legend. We no longer need these sturdy trees to build our houses and boats, to fuel our fires, or to grind their acorns into flour in times of famine. What purpose, then, do they serve in our world today? Are these miracles of nature no longer necessary to our lives? What can they offer us? Taking inspiration from the literary world—Henry David Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy, Katherine Basford’s Green Man, Thomas Hardy, William Shakespeare, and others—Canton ponders the wondrous magic of nature and the threats its faces, from human development to climate change, implores us to act as responsible stewards to conserve what is precious, and reminds us of the lessons we can learn from the world around us, if only we slow down enough to listen.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : PSU:000058948460

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Miscellaneous National Forest Bills by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Forestry law and legislation
ISBN : MINN:31951D037806325

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Current Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Bills by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Apache Indians
ISBN : PSU:000065502020

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H.R. 3301 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Forest reserves
ISBN : PSU:000065513736

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Current Public Lands and Forests Legislation by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781466880665

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I Am the Beggar of the World by Anonim Pdf

I Am the Beggar of the World presents an eye-opening collection of clandestine poems by Afghan women. Because my love's American, blisters blossom on my heart. Afghans revere poetry, particularly the high literary forms that derive from Persian or Arabic. But the poem above is a folk couplet—a landay, an ancient oral and anonymous form created by and for mostly illiterate people: the more than 20 million Pashtun women who span the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. War, separation, homeland, love—these are the subjects of landays, which are brutal and spare, can be remixed like rap, and are powerful in that they make no attempts to be literary. From Facebook to drone strikes to the songs of the ancient caravans that first brought these poems to Afghanistan thousands of years ago, landays reflect contemporary Pashtun life and the impact of three decades of war. With the U.S. withdrawal in 2014 looming, these are the voices of protest most at risk of being lost when the Americans leave. After learning the story of a teenage girl who was forbidden to write poems and set herself on fire in protest, the poet Eliza Griswold and the photographer Seamus Murphy journeyed to Afghanistan to learn about these women and to collect their landays. The poems gathered in I Am the Beggar of the World express a collective rage, a lament, a filthy joke, a love of homeland, an aching longing, a call to arms, all of which belie any facile image of a Pashtun woman as nothing but a mute ghost beneath a blue burqa.

Author : Carl E. Bock
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0816523622

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Sonoita Plain by Carl E. Bock Pdf

The Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch is a tract of 8,000 acres on the Sonoita Plain that was established in 1968 by the Appleton family and is now part of the sanctuary system of the National Audubon Society. To all appearances it is an ordinary piece of land, but for the last 35 years it has been treated in an extraordinary way - by leaving it alone. No grazing to influence grass production. No dam building to hold back flash floods. No pest control. No firefighting. By employing such nonaction, might we gain a glimpse of what this land was like hundreds, even thousands, of years ago? Through essays and photographs focusing on the Research Ranch Sanctuary and surrounding area, this book reveals the complex ecology and unique aesthetics of its grasslands and savannas. Carl and Jane Bock and Stephen E. Strom share a passion for the remarkable beauty found here, and in their book they describe its environment, biodiversity, and human history.

Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Arizona
ISBN : MINN:31951D00293893F

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The National Gazetteer of the United States of America by Geological Survey (U.S.) Pdf

Author : United States. National Park Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Environmental impact analysis
ISBN : SRLF:E0001039031

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Draft Yosemite Valley Plan : Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement by United States. National Park Service Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Forest reserves
ISBN : UOM:39015090375141

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Public Lands and Forests Bills by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests Pdf