The Life of Greece: A History of Greek Civilization from the Beginnings, and of Civilization in the Near East from the Death of Alexander, to the Roman ConquestWill Durant
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
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Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner recounts the remarkable career of Major John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of the Southwest Indian tribes. This classic work is a penetrating and insightful study of Powell's career, from the beginning of the Powell Survey, in which Powell and his men famously became the first to descend the Colorado River, to his eventual ouster from the Geological Survey. In masterful prose, Stegner details the expedition, as well as the philosophies and ideas that drove Powell.
A prophet without honor who had a profound understanding of the American West, Powell warned long ago of the dangers economic exploitation would pose to the West—and he spent a good deal of his life battling Washington politics to get his message across. Only now may we recognize just how accurate a prophet he was.
© 2010 Blackstone Publishing (Lydbok): 9781483071848
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Lydbok: 11. november 2010
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
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- Med
- Forlag
Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner recounts the remarkable career of Major John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of the Southwest Indian tribes. This classic work is a penetrating and insightful study of Powell's career, from the beginning of the Powell Survey, in which Powell and his men famously became the first to descend the Colorado River, to his eventual ouster from the Geological Survey. In masterful prose, Stegner details the expedition, as well as the philosophies and ideas that drove Powell.
A prophet without honor who had a profound understanding of the American West, Powell warned long ago of the dangers economic exploitation would pose to the West—and he spent a good deal of his life battling Washington politics to get his message across. Only now may we recognize just how accurate a prophet he was.
© 2010 Blackstone Publishing (Lydbok): 9781483071848
Utgivelsesdato
Lydbok: 11. november 2010
Tagger
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Mikael
25. feb. 2022
TankevekkendeI expected a 1 part exploration history and 1 part geology history in a biography. This is much more of a political history of land use and a man in the middle of it in the second part of the 1800 hundreds in the USA. Still a very good book.
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