Wilderness North
Author | : Dan D. Gapen |
Publisher | : Becker, Minn. : Whitewater Publications |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780932985002 |
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Author | : Dan D. Gapen |
Publisher | : Becker, Minn. : Whitewater Publications |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780932985002 |
Author | : Percy Knauth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780316848329 |
Author | : Lauren Danner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780874223521 |
North Cascades National Park is remote, rugged, and spectacularly majestic. Efforts to establish a park gained traction after World War II, as national interest in wilderness preservation and concerns about the impact of harvesting timber grew. Troubled by the National Park Service¿s policy favoring development for tourism and the United States Forest Service¿s policy promoting logging in the national forests, conservationists leveraged a changing political environment and the evolving environmental values of the natural resource agencies. Their activism eventually led to the 1968 creation of a crown jewel--Washington¿s magnificent third national park. This engaging account tells the story.
Author | : Ted Morgan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780671690885 |
This captivating combination of history, research, and storytelling presents the collective biography of the ordinary people who tamed this rugged continent and formed our nation. 11 maps; illustrations. Featured at the National American History Conference.
Author | : Elliott Merrick |
Publisher | : North Atlantic Books |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2010-09-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1583943005 |
The enthralling memoir of a 1930s couple whose passion for nature led them on a winter’s-long hunting trek through one of the most remote regions of Canada While many people dream of abandoning civilization and heading into the wilderness, few manage to actually do it. One exception was twenty-four-year-old Elliott Merrick, who in 1929 left his advertising job in New Jersey and moved to Labrador, one of Canada’s most remote regions. True North tells the captivating story of one of the high points of Merrick’s years there: a hunting trip he and his wife, Kay, made with trapper John Michelin in 1930. Covering 300 miles over a harsh winter, they experienced an unexplored realm of nature at its most intense and faced numerous challenges. Merrick accidentally shot himself in the thigh and almost cut off his toe. Freezing cold and hunger were constant. Nonetheless, the group found beauty and even magic in the stark landscape. The couple and the trappers bonded with each other and their environment through such surprisingly daunting tasks as fabricating sunglasses to avoid snow blindness and learning to wash underwear without it freezing. Merrick’s intimate style, rich with narrative detail, brings readers into a dramatic story of survival and shares the lesson the Merricks learned: that the greatest satisfaction in life can come from the simplest things.
Author | : John Owens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Boundary Waters Canoe Area (Minn.) |
ISBN | : 9781517909505 |
A wordless picture-book journey through the Boundary Waters, canoeing and camping with a family as they encounter the northwoods wilderness in all its spectacular beauty It's a place of wordless wonder: the wilderness of the Boundary Waters on the Minnesota-Canada border. Travel its vast distances, canoe its streams and glacial lakes, take shelter from rain under a rocky outcropping (or in your tent), camp in its vaulting forests as stars embroider the darkening sky. Is this your first visit? Or is it already your favorite destination? Come along--join a family of three as their journey unfolds, picture by picture, marking the changing light as the day passes, the stillness before the gathering storm, the shining waters everywhere, rushing here, quietly pooling there, beckoning us ever onward into nature's infinite wildness one summer up north.
Author | : Frieda Knobloch |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2000-11-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807862541 |
In this innovative work of cultural and technological history, Frieda Knobloch describes how agriculture functioned as a colonizing force in the American West between 1862 and 1945. Using agricultural textbooks, USDA documents, and historical accounts of western settlement, she explores the implications of the premise that civilization progresses by bringing agriculture to wilderness. Her analysis is the first to place the trans-Mississippi West in the broad context of European and classical Roman agricultural history. Knobloch shows how western land, plants, animals, and people were subjugated in the name of cultivation and improvement. Illuminating the cultural significance of plows, livestock, trees, grasses, and even weeds, she demonstrates that discourse about agriculture portrays civilization as the emergence of a colonial, socially stratified, and bureaucratic culture from a primitive, feminine, and unruly wilderness. Specifically, Knobloch highlights the displacement of women from their historical role as food gatherers and producers and reveals how Native American land-use patterns functioned as a form of cultural resistance. Describing the professionalization of knowledge, Knobloch concludes that both social and biological diversity have suffered as a result of agricultural 'progress.'
Author | : Jim Wark |
Publisher | : Universe Pub |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9780789320773 |
Features aerial photographs of the North American wilderness, and presents essays that chronicle the efforts made to expand and protect the areas throughout history.
Author | : Fred Hatfield |
Publisher | : Citadel Press |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Alaska |
ISBN | : 9780806513171 |
Author | : Doug Bennet |
Publisher | : M & S |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Natural history |
ISBN | : 9780771011160 |
An indispensable guide to learning about things that go bump in the night and are forever sucking your blood in the wilderness. Easily carried in a knapsack or coat pocket, "Up North" provides fascinating facts about the flora, fauna and other natural phenomena readers are likely to encounter outdoors in Ontario. Illustrations. color photos.