Author: University of California, BerkeleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Berkeley (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
University of California Publications in Geography
Author: University of California, BerkeleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Berkeley (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
University of California Publications in Geography
Author: University of California Publications
Author: Frederic Ward PutnamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
University of California Publications in Botany
Author: University of California (System)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
University of California Publications
Author: Records of the Past
Author: Catalogue University of California Press Publications 1893-1943
Author: California. University. PressPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Publishers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Journal
Author: Manchester Geographical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
University of California Publications in Zoology
Author: University of California (1868-1952)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Sierra-Nevada Lakes
Author: George Henry HinklePublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1839742933
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 587
Book Description
Of the world’s famous mountain ranges, the Sierra Nevada is one of the most spectacular in the number and variety of its lakes. From Lassen Peak in the north to Mount Whitney in the south, the crest and Banks of the great barrier are flecked with the blue of thousands of them—there are 429 in Yosemite Park alone, and in a single area of 220 square miles at the southern end of Lake Tahoe there is a galaxy of more than a hundred. These ice-blue pools lie casually in the most unexpected places—in bleak cirques well above timber line, in river bottoms, in densely timbered canyons, and on the summits of boulder-strewed passes. They range in size from navigable bodies of 300 square miles to small glacial ponds of a few acres. Almost every imaginable geologic origin is represented somewhere among them, as well as some unimaginable freaks of contour. As John Muir was probably the first to point out, theirs is the charm of the unpredictable. Around them centers much of the history of California and Nevada, and until now no comprehensive effort has been made by anyone to narrate it. Dr. and Mrs. Hinkle, who are well-nigh ideally equipped to delineate the fascinating history of the Sierra lakes and their near-lying Great Basin neighbors. Both are the descendants of long lines of pioneer forebears. Both were born and grew up in Truckee, the main gateway of the transcontinental route between Nevada and California. Both are inheritors of a great love for the region and of a great mass of family and traditionary lore concerning it. Both are trained in the employment of bibliographical and historical tools for the writing of history. Finally, as husband and wife, they constitute a well-geared, smoothly functioning literary team, each member of which reinforces and supplements the labors and perceptions of the other.