Author: Samuel Gilbert HoughtonPublisher: Howe Brothers
ISBN: 9780935704358
Category : Great Basin
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
A Trace of Desert Waters
Author: Samuel Gilbert HoughtonPublisher: Howe Brothers
ISBN: 9780935704358
Category : Great Basin
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
A Trace of Desert Waters
Author: Samuel Gilbert HoughtonPublisher: Arthur H. Clark Company
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A Trace of Desert Waters
Author: Samuel G. HoughtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Desert Waters
Author: Robert CraneDesert Waters
Author: Robert CRANE (pseud.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Desert Waters
Author: Frank Chester RobertsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Crow's Range
Author: David BeesleyPublisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 0874176344
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
John Muir called it the "Range of Light, the most divinely beautiful of all the mountain chains I’ve ever seen." The Sierra Nevada—a single unbroken mountain range stretching north to south over four hundred miles, best understood as a single ecosystem but embracing a number of environmental communities—has been the site of human activity for millennia. From the efforts of ancient Native Americans to encourage game animals by burning brush to create meadows to the burgeoning resort and residential development of the present, the Sierra has endured, and often suffered from, the efforts of humans to exploit its bountiful resources for their own benefit. Historian David Beesley examines the history of the Sierra Nevada from earliest times, beginning with a comprehensive discussion of the geologic development of the range and its various ecological communities. Using a wide range of sources, including the records of explorers and early settlers, scientific and government documents, and newspaper reports, Beesley offers a lively and informed account of the history, environmental challenges, and political controversies that lie behind the breathtaking scenery of the Sierra. Among the highlights are discussions of the impact of the Gold Rush and later mining efforts, as well as the supporting industries that mining spawned, including logging, grazing, water-resource development, market hunting, urbanization, and transportation; the politics and emotions surrounding the establishment of Yosemite and other state and national parks; the transformation of the Hetch Hetchy into a reservoir and the desertification of the once-lush Owens Valley; the roles of the Forest Service, Park Service, and other regulatory agencies; the consequences of the fateful commitment to wildfire suppression in Sierran forests; and the ever-growing impact of tourism and recreational use. Through Beesley’s wide-ranging discussion, John Muir’s "divinely beautiful" range is revealed in all its natural and economic complexity, a place that at the beginning of the twenty-first century is in grave danger of being loved to death. Available in hardcover and paperback.
Divining Jordan's desert waters
Author: Stephen DaleDesert Waters
Author: Nancy R. LaneyPublisher: Treasure Chest Books
ISBN: 9781886679085
Category : Water conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Void, The Grid & The Sign
Author: William L. FoxPublisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 0874174775
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
This is a story that few know, but those who do are its disciples. The story, of the highest and driest of all American deserts, the Great Basin, has no finer voice than that of William Fox. Fox’s book is divided into the three sections of the title. In “The Void,” he leads us through the Great Basin landscape, investigating our visual response to it—a pattern of mountains and valleys on a scale of such magnitude and emptiness and undifferentiated by shape, form, and color that the visual and cognitive expectations of the human mind are confounded and impaired. “The Grid” leads us on a journey through the evolution of cartography in the nineteenth century and the explorations of John Charles Frémont to the net of maps, section markers, railroads, telegraph lines, and highways that humans have thrown across the void throughout history. “The Sign” wends us through the metaphors and language we continue to place around and over the void, revealing the Great Basin as a palimpsest where, for example, the neon boulevards of Las Vegas interplay with ancient petroglyphs. In this one-of-a-kind travel book that allows us to travel within our own neurophysiological processes as well as out into the arresting void of the Great Basin, Fox has created a dazzling new standard at the frontier of writing about the American West. His stunning and broad insight draws from the fields of natural history, cognitive psychology, art history, western history, archaeology, and anthropology, and will be of value to scholars and readers in all these subjects.