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Author : Christopher Johnson
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1584654619
A sweeping environmental history of a quintessential American wilderness.
Author : Christopher Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1625345194
This is the complex story of New Hampshire's White Mountains, from the range's days as the majestic homeland of the Abenaki, first seen by English colonists four centuries ago, to its unassailable standing today as one of America's most beloved national forests, comprising 112,000 acres of protected wilderness. Christopher Johnson, an avid hiker intimately familiar with the White Mountains, achieves two important objectives in This Grand and Magnificent Place. He lovingly explores their rich ecological, political, economic, and cultural history and, more broadly, opens a panoramic window on the evolution of American attitudes and policies toward wilderness over time. Two competing visions of wilderness historically have coexisted in America: the instrumental, in which the wilderness is seen as a conglomeration of resources to be exploited for the benefit of entrepreneurs and consumers, and the aesthetic, in which the wilderness is appreciated for its natural beauty, the personal growth that it stimulates, the national pride it engenders, and the spiritual truth it offers. Johnson never loses sight of this fundamental dichotomy as he shares marvelous true tales of the first intrepid European settlers who "tamed" the Whites. He discusses Ethan Allen Crawford, the area's first innkeeper, the emergence of tourism, and America's love affair with the "wilderness experience"; and he explores tales of Thomas Cole, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and other renowned artists who immortalized these mountains in their works. He considers the coming of grand resort hotels--and the contemporaneous wilderness revival--in the late nineteenth century and the passing of the landmark 1911 Weeks Act, which was instrumental in preserving American wilderness in the face of development and threats of irreparable environmental damage. Johnson traces the perilous course of the twentieth-century movement toward wilderness preservation, which has successfully conserved the Whites, an extraordinary American treasure, for future generations. Finally, he poses thoughtful and essential questions regarding the destiny of this American wilderness, exploring the balance between maintaining its usefulness while conserving its glorious heritage. This skillful and accessible history will rivet general readers, students, and professionals interested in the history, culture, and politics of the White Mountains, as well as those fascinated by environmental history and wilderness protection everywhere.
Author : Lucy Crawford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : White Mountains
ISBN : NYPL:33433081781928
Author : Thomas A. Edison
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781421400907
Gathers sketches, notebook entries, letters, articles, patent information, and financial papers from the beginning of Edison's career as an inventor
Author : Christopher Johnson,David Govatski
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1610910095
Forests for the People tells one of the most extraordinary stories of environmental protection in our nation’s history: how a diverse coalition of citizens, organizations, and business and political leaders worked to create a system of national forests in the Eastern United States. It offers an insightful and wide-ranging look at the actions leading to the passage of the Weeks Act in 1911—landmark legislation that established a system of well-managed forests in the East, the South, and the Great Lakes region—along with case studies that consider some of the key challenges facing eastern forests today. The book begins by looking at destructive practices widely used by the timber industry in the late 1800s and early 1900s, including extensive clearcutting followed by forest fire that devastated entire landscapes. The authors explain how this led to the birth of a new conservation movement that began simultaneously in the Southern Appalachians and New England, and describe the subsequent protection of forests in New England (New Hampshire and the White Mountains); the Great Lakes region (Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota), and the Southern Appalachians. Following this historical background, the authors offer eight case studies that examine critical issues facing the eastern national forests today, including timber harvesting, the use of fire, wilderness protection, endangered wildlife, oil shale drilling, invasive species, and development surrounding national park borders. Forests for the People is the only book to fully describe the history of the Weeks Act and the creation of the eastern national forests and to use case studies to illustrate current management issues facing these treasured landscapes. It is an important new work for anyone interested in the past or future of forests and forestry in the United States.
Author : gestalten,Marianne Julia Strauss
Publisher : Gestalten
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3967040240
In 2016, the world's oldest existing library reopened in Fes, Morocco. It opened for the first time in the 9th Century. These shrines to the written word date back even further, and continue to be built today. They're a place where some of the oldest written texts are preserved and some of the newest technology connects visitors with vast amounts of knowledge. Libraries are changing, but, as places that are fundamentally free and open to all, they're also staying the same. Libraries of the World explores the most stunning examples, but it also explores how varied the idea of a library can be. It can be a grand Baroque hall with leather-bound tomes or a mid-century masterpiece, but it can just as easily be a few shelves in a repurposed phone booth.
Author : Pete McBride
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780847870868
In a world ever more congested and polluted with both toxins and noise, award-winning photographer Pete McBride takes readers on a once-in-a-lifetime escape to find places of peace and quiet—a pole-to-pole, continent-by-continent quest for the soul. We tend to think of silence as the absence of sound, but it is actually the void where we can hear the sublime notes of nature. In this National Outdoor Book Award winning work, photographer Pete McBride reveals the wonders of these hushed places in spectacular imagery—from the thin-air flanks of Mount Everest to the depths of the Grand Canyon, from the high-altitude vistas of the Atacama to the African savannah, and from the Antarctic Peninsula to the flowing waters of the Ganges and Nile. These places remind us of the magic of being “truly away” and how such places are vanishing. Often showing beauty from vantages where no other photographer has ever stood, this is a seven-continent visual tour of global quietude—and the power in nature’s own sounds—that will both inspire and calm.
Author : John Nichols (F.S.A., Printer.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:B000007186
Author : Charles Dorrance Linskill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : NYPL:33433071358158
Author : John Anderson,Stearns Morse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : White Mountains
ISBN : UOM:39015017678700
Author : Tey Diana Rebolledo,MarÕa Teresa Màrquez
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1611920531
As part of the Works Progress Administration during the Depression, two women interviewers, Lou Sage Batchen and Annette Hesch Thorp, gathered womens stories or cuentosfrom many native ancianas to glean vivid details of a way of life now long disappeared.
Author : Tim Campbell
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462041725
Through the blistering heat rising off the desert highway, Mark Axton deftly maneuvers a sports car at high speed. A test-driver for a major automobile magazine, the handsome, charismatic Axton lives a life of adventure that other men can only dream of. Yet as Axton and his assistant conduct their test-drive on this particular day, they are about to experience a chance encounter with a former racecar driver and his gruff mechanic that could change Axton's life, and the lives of every human being on the planet, forever. In Mech-Row we meet a cast of characters thrown together by the unbelievable invention of the first truly nonpolluting high-performance automobile. As Axton and his new partners attempt to build and test a working prototype, their lives become interwoven in the pursuit of a revolutionary wonder vehicle that could actually become the solution to the world's pollution crisis. Mech-Row takes us on a journey at a hundred miles per hour as Axton races to bring the amazing discovery to the world's attention. A fast-paced thriller, Mech-Row is a standout in a new type of fiction set against the backdrop of the modern-day plight of planet Earth.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Appalachian Mountains
ISBN : STANFORD:36105213187854
Author : New York (State). Legislature. Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1406 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : New York (State)
ISBN : UIUC:30112077832209
Author : Benjamin Loren Hartley
Publisher : University Press of New England
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : UCBK:C103241515
The story of Boston revivalism and social reform