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Author : Barry Morris Goldwater
Release : 1970
Genre : Travel
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Book Synopsis Delightful Journey, Down the Green & Colorado Rivers by : Barry Morris Goldwater
Download or read book Delightful Journey, Down the Green & Colorado Rivers written by Barry Morris Goldwater. This book was released on 1970. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barry Morris Goldwater
Release : 1970
Genre : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
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Book Synopsis Delightful Journey Down the Green and Colorado Rivers by : Barry Morris Goldwater
Download or read book Delightful Journey Down the Green and Colorado Rivers written by Barry Morris Goldwater. This book was released on 1970. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ann Zwinger
Release : 2022-03-08
Genre : Nature
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Book Rating : 234/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Run, River, Run by : Ann Zwinger
Download or read book Run, River, Run written by Ann Zwinger. This book was released on 2022-03-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Green River runs wild, free and vigourous from southern Wyoming to northeastern Utah. Edward Abbey wrote in these pages in 1975 that Anne Zwinger's account of the Green River and its subtle forms of life and nonlife may be taken as authoritative. 'Run, River, Run,' should serve as a standard reference work on this part of the American West for many years to come." —New York Times Book Review
Author : Cecil Kuhne
Release : 2017-10-31
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 738/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis River Master: John Wesley Powell's Legendary Exploration of the Colorado River and Grand Canyon (American Grit) by : Cecil Kuhne
Download or read book River Master: John Wesley Powell's Legendary Exploration of the Colorado River and Grand Canyon (American Grit) written by Cecil Kuhne. This book was released on 2017-10-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience John Wesley Powell’s now-famous expedition through the Grand Canyon In 1869, Civil War veteran and amputee Major John Powell led an expedition down the uncharted Colorado River through the then-nameless Grand Canyon. This is the story of what started as a geological survey, but ended in danger, chaos, and blood. The men were unexperienced and ill-equipped, and they faced unimaginable peril. Along the way there was death, mutiny, and abject terror, but Powell saw it through and produced a masterwork of adventure writing still held in the highest regard by the boatmen who follow his course today. Never-before-used primary sources and firsthand canyoneering experience combine to create an authentic and visceral account of Powell’s historic journey. Written by an accomplished river guide with experience navigating Powell’s legendary course, River Master brings to life one of America’s iconic frontier stories.
Author : Brian Allen Drake
Release : 2013-11-01
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 858/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Loving Nature, Fearing the State by : Brian Allen Drake
Download or read book Loving Nature, Fearing the State written by Brian Allen Drake. This book was released on 2013-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "conservative environmental tradition" in America may sound like a contradiction in terms, but as Brian Allen Drake shows in Loving Nature, Fearing the State, right-leaning politicians and activists have shaped American environmental consciousness since the environmental movement's beginnings. In this wide-ranging history, Drake explores the tensions inherent in balancing an ideology dedicated to limiting the power of government with a commitment to protecting treasured landscapes and ecological health. Drake argues that "antistatist" beliefs--an individualist ethos and a mistrust of government--have colored the American passion for wilderness but also complicated environmental protection efforts. While most of the successes of the environmental movement have been enacted through the federal government, conservative and libertarian critiques of big-government environmentalism have increasingly resisted the idea that strengthening state power is the only way to protect the environment. Loving Nature, Fearing the State traces the influence of conservative environmental thought through the stories of important actors in postwar environmental movements. The book follows small-government pioneer Barry Goldwater as he tries to establish federally protected wilderness lands in the Arizona desert and shows how Goldwater's intellectual and ideological struggles with this effort provide a framework for understanding the dilemmas of an antistatist environmentalism. It links antigovernment activism with environmental public health concerns by analyzing opposition to government fluoridation campaigns and investigates environmentalism from a libertarian economic perspective through the work of free-market environmentalists. Drake also sees in the work of Edward Abbey an argument that reverence for nature can form the basis for resistance to state power. Each chapter highlights debates and tensions that are important to understanding environmental history and the challenges that face environmental protection efforts today.
