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Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Our Public Lands
Author: The Thundering Herd
Author: Zane GreyPublisher:
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Category : American bison hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
When the buffalo ranged the plains and the Comanche nation was on the war path.
Field & Stream
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Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
FIELD & STREAM, America’s largest outdoor sports magazine, celebrates the outdoor experience with great stories, compelling photography, and sound advice while honoring the traditions hunters and fishermen have passed down for generations.
Land of the Thundering Herds
Author: Justin F. DenzelPublisher: Philomel
ISBN: 9780399218941
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The adventures and daily routine of a young lion, stallion, condor, herd of mammoths, and other prehistoric animals sharing a vast grassland.
1491
Author: Charles C. MannPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 140004006X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus’s landing had crossed the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago; existed mainly in small, nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas was, for all practical purposes, still a vast wilderness. But as Charles C. Mann now makes clear, archaeologists and anthropologists have spent the last thirty years proving these and many other long-held assumptions wrong. In a book that startles and persuades, Mann reveals how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques came to previously unheard-of conclusions. Among them: • In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe. • Certain cities–such as Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital–were far greater in population than any contemporary European city. Furthermore, Tenochtitlán, unlike any capital in Europe at that time, had running water, beautiful botanical gardens, and immaculately clean streets. • The earliest cities in the Western Hemisphere were thriving before the Egyptians built the great pyramids. • Pre-Columbian Indians in Mexico developed corn by a breeding process so sophisticated that the journal Science recently described it as “man’s first, and perhaps the greatest, feat of genetic engineering.” • Amazonian Indians learned how to farm the rain forest without destroying it–a process scientists are studying today in the hope of regaining this lost knowledge. • Native Americans transformed their land so completely that Europeans arrived in a hemisphere already massively “landscaped” by human beings. Mann sheds clarifying light on the methods used to arrive at these new visions of the pre-Columbian Americas and how they have affected our understanding of our history and our thinking about the environment. His book is an exciting and learned account of scientific inquiry and revelation.
Land of the Eagle
Author: Robert McCracken PeckPublisher: London : BBC Books
ISBN: 9780563208587
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Volunteer Opportunities
Author: United States. Bureau of Land Management. Eastern States OfficePublisher:
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Category : Volunteer workers in government
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Company
Author: Stephen R. BownPublisher:
ISBN: 0385694075
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's origins. The story of the Hudson's Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern Canada's creation. And yet it hasn't been told in a book for over thirty years, and never in such depth and vivid detail as in Stephen R. Bown's exciting new telling. The Company started out small in 1670, trading practical manufactured goods for furs with the Indigenous inhabitants of inland subarctic Canada. Controlled by a handful of English aristocrats, it expanded into a powerful political force that ruled the lives of many thousands of people--from the lowlands south and west of Hudson Bay, to the tundra, the great plains, the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific northwest. It transformed the culture and economy of many Indigenous groups and ended up as the most important political and economic force in northern and western North America. When the Company was faced with competition from French traders in the 1780s, the result was a bloody corporate battle, the coming of Governor George Simpson--one of the greatest villains in Canadian history--and the Company assuming political control and ruthless dominance. By the time its monopoly was rescinded after two hundred years, the Hudson's Bay Company had reworked the entire northern North American world. Stephen R. Bown has a scholar's profound knowledge and understanding of the Company's history, but wears his learning lightly in a narrative as compelling, and rich in well-drawn characters, as a page-turning novel.
Onearth
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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Voices
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Magazine of new poetry.