Author: William Temple HornadayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Camp-fires on Desert and Lava
Author: William Temple HornadayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Camp-Fires on Desert and Lava (Classic Reprint)
Author: William T. HornadayPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332680095
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Excerpt from Camp-Fires on Desert and Lava In November, southern Arizona is fascinating, no less. The boundless space, the glorious sunshine, the balmy air, the cleanness Of the face Of Nature, the absence of dust, filth, waste paper, polluted streams, dirty humanity, and many other things that wear on Life in a great city, strongly appeal to me. The countries that will grow corn and wheat and hogs in great abundance per acre are not the only lands worth knowing. Consider Ari zona. Certainly it is a Land of Health, and if ever I am called upon to die in the East, I will go there and live. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Desert Passages
Author: Patricia Nelson LimerickPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826308085
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Traces the development of American attitudes toward the desert using case studies from many writers over the years.
Among Unknown Tribes
Author: Bill BroylesPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292754639
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Internationally renowned as an exciting guide to unknown peoples and places, Norwegian Carl Lumholtz was a Victorian-era explorer, anthropologist, natural scientist, writer, and photographer who worked in Australia, Mexico, and Borneo. His photographs of the Tarahumara, Huichol, Cora, Tepehuan, Southern Pima, and Tohono O'odham tribes of Mexico and southwest Arizona were among the very first taken of these cultures and still provide the best photographic record of them at the turn of the twentieth century. Lumholtz published his photographs in several books, including Unknown Mexico and New Trails in Mexico, but, because photographic publishing was then in its infancy, most of the images were poorly printed, badly cropped, or reworked by "illustrators" using crude techniques. Among Unknown Tribes presents more than two hundred of Lumholtz's best photographs—many never before published—from the archives of the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo, Norway. The images are newly scanned, most from the original negatives, and printed uncropped, disclosing a wealth of previously hidden detail. Each photograph is fully identified and often amplified by Lumholtz's own notes and captions. Accompanying the images are essays and photo notes that survey Lumholtz's career and legacy, as well as what his photographs reveal about the "unknown tribes." By giving Lumholtz's photographs the high-quality reproduction they deserve, Among Unknown Tribes honors not only the Norwegian explorer but also the native peoples who continue to struggle for recognition and justice as they actively engage in the traditional customs that Lumholtz recorded.
Sunshot
Author: Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816525249
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The Devil’s Highway crosses a stretch of borderland desert in northern Mexico where many immigrants have traveled—and too many have died. It is a despoblado where desperate people defend secret places. But it is also known as El Gran Desierto—a place where stately saguaros stand near aromatic elephant trees, where sand dunes caress the edges of jagged granite mountains, where one can watch bighorn sheep in the morning and whales in the afternoon. Over the years, desert rat Bill Broyles has ventured repeatedly into this sunshot landscape, slogged across its salt flats and sand dunes, and defied its deadly heat. This book chronicles his years of exploration, a vivid and personal introduction to a thorny but ultimately enchanting place that manages to endear itself over time, if it doesn’t kill you first. Michael Berman’s stark black-and-white photographs capture the desolate beauty of the desert while conveying a sense of Broyles’ adventures. Gleaned from more than 4,000 images shot with a large-format camera, these exquisite photographs translate the desert’s formidable monotone into finely tuned studies of light and represent some of the best photos ever taken of this mysterious region. El Gran Desierto is a grand desert indeed, with beauty, spirit, and mystery rivaling any place on Earth, and anyone captivated by the earlier explorations of Lumholtz, Ives, or Hornaday—or by Edward Abbey’s love of desert places—will revel in these modern-day adventures. Sunshot defies the stereotype of a punishing wilderness to show how even the most perilous desert can be alluring if approached with knowledge and respect.
Lamp ...
Author: The Book Buyer
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
Literature of Nature
Author: Patrick D. MurphyPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781579580100
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert
Author: Patricia Wentworth ComusPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520287479
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
"The landscape of the Sonoran Desert Region varies dramatically from parched desert lowlands to semiarid tropical forests and frigid subalpine meadows... "A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert" takes readers deep into its vast expanse, looking closely at the relationships of plants and animals with the land and people, through time and across landscapes"--
Guide to Reprints
Author: K G Saur BooksPublisher: K. G. Saur
ISBN: 9783598238833
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1196
Book Description