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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 922
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The Death Valley Expedition
Author: The Death Valley Expedition
Author: Albert Kenrick FisherPublisher:
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Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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The Explorer's Guide to Death Valley National Park, Third Edition
Author: T. Scott BryanPublisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1457188589
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
Originally published in 1995, soon after Death Valley National Park became the fifty-third park in the US park system, The Explorer's Guide to Death Valley National Park was the first complete guidebook available for this spectacular area. Now in its third edition, this is still the only book that includes all aspects of the park. Much more than just a guidebook, it covers the park's cultural history, botany and zoology, hiking and biking opportunities, and more. Information is provided for all of Death Valley's visitors, from first-time travelers just learning about the area to those who are returning for in-depth explorations. The book includes updated point-to-point logs for every road within and around the park, as well as more accurate maps than those in any other publication. With extensive input from National Park Service resource management, law enforcement, and interpretive personnel, as well as a thorough bibliography for suggested reading, The Explorer's Guide to Death Valley National Park, Third Edition is the most up-to-date, accurate, and comprehensive guide available for this national treasure.
Botany of the Death Valley Expedition
Author: Frederick Vernon CovillePublisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Report on the Ornithology of the Death Valley Expedition of 1891
Author: Albert Kenrick FisherPublisher:
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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The Death Valley Expedition: Report on reptiles and batrachians. By Leonhard Stejneger
Author: The Death Valley Expedition. A Biological Survey of Parts of California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah. Part 2
Author: Death Valley and the Amargosa
Author: Richard E. LingenfelterPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520908888
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
This is the history of Death Valley, where that bitter stream the Amargosa dies. It embraces the whole basin of the Amargosa from the Panamints to the Spring Mountains, from the Palmettos to the Avawatz. And it spans a century from the earliest recollections and the oldest records to that day in 1933 when much of the valley was finally set aside as a National Monument. This is the story of an illusory land, of the people it attracted and of the dreams and delusions they pursued-the story of the metals in its mountains and the salts in its sinks, of its desiccating heat and its revitalizing springs, and of all the riches of its scenery and lore-the story of Indians and horse thieves, lost argonauts and lost mine hunters, prospectors and promoters, miners and millionaires, stockholders and stock sharps, homesteaders and hermits, writers and tourists. But mostly this is the story of the illusions-the illusions of a shortcut to the gold diggings that lured the forty-niners, of inescapable deadliness that hung in the name they left behind, of lost bonanzas that grew out of the few nuggets they found, of immeasurable riches spread by hopeful prospectors and calculating con men, and of impenetrable mysteries concocted by the likes of Scotty. These and many lesser illusions are the heart of its history.
Death Valley National Park
Author: Mark SchlenzPublisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 9780944197523
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Death Valley National Park's barren, desert landscape sprawls over 3.3 million acres. The valley with its surrounding mountains and basins are where the Earth's geological bones are laid bare for all to see. It is a place of extremes; air temperatures reach in excess of 120 degrees F, and ground temperatures have been recorded as high at 190 degrees F. The scant rain fall of less than two inches per year make for an arid world. In this world of stark contrasts, professional photographers Fred and Randi Hirschmann capture this stupendous desert scenery. Looking over a pool at Badwater, 279 feet below sea level, Telescope Peak is reflected in the pool as the mountain towers in the dry air, its peak reaching 1,049 feet above sea level. Boulders leave trails in the dry lake beds as they move across the windswept landscape, and a delicate flower blooms from a crack in the clay of a dry pond. Author Mark Schlenz writes an environmental history about this valley and the impacts of humans on its fragile desert ecosystems.
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