Author: Huntington Lake Camp for GirlsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Camps
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Huntington Lake Camp for Girls and Post Season Sierra Pack Trip
Author: Huntington Lake Camp for GirlsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Camps
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Huntington Lake Camp for Girls and Post Season Sierra Pack Trip
Author: Huntington Lake Camp for GirlsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Camps
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
A Handbook of Summer Camps
Author: Catalog of Printed Books. Supplement
Author: Bancroft LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Sunset
Author: The California Register
Author: Camp Songs, Folk Songs
Author: Patricia AverillPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493179128
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Description and analysis of a folk tradition that long has been a rite of passage for children and adolescents. In depth discussion of 19 songs, brief mention of 1,400 others. 65 historic photographs.
Place Names of the Sierra Nevada
Author: Peter BrowningPublisher:
ISBN: 9780899971193
Category : Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Over the years, the High Sierra has attracted a diverse group of travelers and residents who have explored its rivers, valleys, mountain peaks, lakes and passes. These names are clues to the colorful and unusual aspects of the area's past, and the people and events that shaped it.In 1926, the Sierra historian Francis Farquhar wrote Place Names of the High Sierra. Published by the Sierra Club, it quickly became a standard reference book. Since then, more than half the names on the present topographic maps of the Sierra have been created, but Farquhar died before he was able to complete his planned revision.Peter Browning, who was given access to Farquhar's extensive revision notes, has written an entirely new book on the place names of the Sierra Nevada. He has perused many original sources, including the place-names files of national parks and forests, the decision lists of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, and field notes of the U.S. Geological Survey topographers responsible for naming many of the features.This new book gives the derivation and lore associated with each name as well as quotes from many of the explorers and travelers of the Sierra Nevada.This book also has a very practical value. It gives the topographic map on which to find each of the almost 3000 place names. Altitudes of peaks, passes and lakes are given and each place is located by national park national forest, etc.
Parents' Guide to Accredited Camps
Author: A Manufactured Wilderness
Author: Abigail Ayres Van SlyckPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816648764
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Since they were first established in the 1880s, children’s summer camps have touched the lives of millions of people. Although the camping experience has a special place in the popular imagination, few scholars have given serious thought to this peculiarly American phenomenon. Why were summer camps created? What concerns and ideals motivated their founders? Whom did they serve? How did they change over time? What factors influenced their design? To answer these and many other questions, Abigail A. Van Slyck trains an informed eye on the most visible and evocative aspect of camp life: its landscape and architecture. She argues that summer camps delivered much more than a simple encounter with the natural world. Instead, she suggests, camps provided a man-made version of wilderness, shaped by middle-class anxieties about gender roles, class tensions, race relations, and modernity and its impact on the lives of children. Following a fascinating history of summer camps and a wide-ranging overview of the factors that led to their creation, Van Slyck examines the intersections of the natural landscape with human-built forms and social activities. In particular, she addresses changing attitudes toward such subjects as children’s health, sanitation, play, relationships between the sexes, Native American culture, and evolving ideas about childhood. Generously illustrated with period photographs, maps, plans, and promotional images of camps throughout North America, A Manufactured Wilderness is the first book to offer a thorough consideration of the summer camp environment.