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The Worst Hard Time

2006-09-01 History
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Release : 2006-09-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 774/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Worst Hard Time by : Timothy Egan

Download or read book The Worst Hard Time written by Timothy Egan. This book was released on 2006-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award–winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows. The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Timothy Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. Brilliantly capturing the terrifying drama of catastrophe, he does equal justice to the human characters who become his heroes, “the stoic, long-suffering men and women whose lives he opens up with urgency and respect” (New York Times). In an era that promises ever-greater natural disasters, The Worst Hard Time is “arguably the best nonfiction book yet” (Austin Statesman Journal) on the greatest environmental disaster ever to be visited upon our land and a powerful reminder about the dangers of trifling with nature. This e-book includes a sample chapter of THE IMMORTAL IRISHMAN.

Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher

2012 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2012
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 020/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by : Timothy Egan

Download or read book Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher written by Timothy Egan. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous photographer, the Annie Leibovitz of his time. He moved in rarefied circles, a friend to presidents, vaudevill stars, leading thinkers. And he was thirty-two years old in 1900 when he gave it all up to pursue his Great Idea: to capture on film the continent's original inhabitants before the old ways disappeared.

The Big Burn

2009-10-19 History
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Release : 2009-10-19
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 865/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Big Burn by : Timothy Egan

Download or read book The Big Burn written by Timothy Egan. This book was released on 2009-10-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award–winner Timothy Egan turns his historian's eye to the largest-ever forest fire in America and offers an epic, cautionary tale for our time. On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged, destroying towns and timber in the blink of an eye. Forest rangers had assembled nearly ten thousand men to fight the fires, but no living person had seen anything like those flames, and neither the rangers nor anyone else knew how to subdue them. Egan recreates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire with unstoppable dramatic force, and the larger story of outsized president Teddy Roosevelt and his chief forester, Gifford Pinchot, that follows is equally resonant. Pioneering the notion of conservation, Roosevelt and Pinchot did nothing less than create the idea of public land as our national treasure, owned by every citizen. Even as TR's national forests were smoldering they were saved: The heroism shown by his rangers turned public opinion permanently in favor of the forests, though it changed the mission of the forest service in ways we can still witness today. This e-book includes a sample chapter of SHORT NIGHTS OF THE SHADOW CATCHER.

The Good Rain

2011-05-18 Travel
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Release : 2011-05-18
Genre : Travel
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Book Rating : 717/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Good Rain by : Timothy Egan

Download or read book The Good Rain written by Timothy Egan. This book was released on 2011-05-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fantastic book! Timothy Egan describes his journeys in the Pacific Northwest through visits to salmon fisheries, redwood forests and the manicured English gardens of Vancouver. Here is a blend of history, anthropology and politics.

The Worst Hard Time

2020
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Release : 2020
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Book Rating : 857/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Worst Hard Time by : Perfection Learning Corporation

Download or read book The Worst Hard Time written by Perfection Learning Corporation. This book was released on 2020. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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