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Author
Publisher
Alfred Knopf
Pub. Date
c1989
Physical Desc
xviii, 296 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Interspersing history with personal descriptions, the author, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, uses the framework of his nine-day solo backpack trip to tell the tale of "the heartland of the American West," the Unita Mountains, which are bordered by the "sagebrush states" of Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado.
Author
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
116 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is an intimate story of one manś search for himself. Investigative journalist Taylor goes looking for Ruess, a young artist who disappeared in the vast sandstone wilderness of southern Utah in 1934, and instead of finding Ruess finds out much about himself.
46) American places
Author
Publisher
Wings Books
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
224 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
A close look at Amercica by seasoned observers. How the American people and the American land have interacted, how they have shaped one another.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
c1993
Physical Desc
xxiv, 227 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Gary Paul Nabhan walked the two hundred miles from Florence to Assisi. Along the way he met peasant farmers eager to share the love of their plants and seeds, recipes and customs. The fruit of this pilgrimage is writing that imaginatively traverses the boundary between nature and history.
52) The Maine woods
Author
Publisher
Houghton, Mifflin and company
Pub. Date
1864
Physical Desc
328 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Maine Woods was written as three essays. If he had lived longer, Thoreau might have revised them into a more cohesive whole, but he never had the time to do this. The book describes trips over an eleven year period, and Thoreau's work on these essays spanned 15 years.
Author
Publisher
Mercury House
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
xi, 298 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book mixes travel, adventure, and nature writing in a gripping tale of the Himalaya, its peoples and its ecosystem. With humor and insight into the changing world of the Himalayan wilderness, Taylor-Ide takes the reader on a journey through the jungles and up the icy cliffs of the Himalayas to an amazing conclusion. Yeti, Abominable Snowman, Bigfoot. Taylor-Ide wanted to know more about that inscrutable denizen of the snowy wastes...Taylor-Ide...
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
123 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Revolutionary War spy, Nathan Hale, tells a hangman and British officer the story of the Donner Party, a doomed wagon train traveling from Illinois to California in 1846.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
After her father dies in the fall of 1849, a little girl and her family follow Mr. Reed's wagon train west, discovering the challenges, excitement, and danger of the frontier on their way to their homestead in California.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 33
Physical Desc
xii, 506 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
William Least Heat-Moon provides an account of his experiences during a five-thousand mile journey across America by boat.
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