Grand Canyon to Hearst Ranch - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Grand Canyon to Hearst Ranch write by Elizabeth Austin. This book was released on 2020-02-21. Grand Canyon to Hearst Ranch available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Finalist for the 2020 WILLA Literary Award, Creative Nonfiction Inspired by her first breathtaking trip in the Grand Canyon, Harriet Hunt Burgess dedicated her life to saving land for future generations. Beginning in the 1970s, she persevered through four decades—overcoming daunting obstacles and taking extraordinary risks—to conserve hundreds of thousands of acres of land in the American West.Without Burgess, iconic and irreplaceable landscapes like the Lake Tahoe region and the California coast would be much different today. As Harriet Burgess once explained, “The land we save is our legacy. It’s what we give to our children.” The Grand Canyon was the catalyst for Harriet’s conservation mission and the spark for Grand Canyon to Hearst Ranch. Author Elizabeth Austin has interwoven her own exhilarating and life-changing dory trip through the depths of the Grand Canyon with the compelling story of Harriet’s early life and five of her most significant conservation achievements as founder-president of the American Land Conservancy.
Grand Canyon's Phantom Ranch
Grand Canyon's Phantom Ranch - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Grand Canyon's Phantom Ranch write by Robert W. Audretsch. This book was released on 2012. Grand Canyon's Phantom Ranch available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Phantom Ranch is nestled in the Grand Canyon basin on the Colorado River--a location hardly visible from the rim and only accessible after a journey through scores of geologic layers. The only way there is by river rafting, hiking, or mule, and with each foot of the journey, the traveler descends 30,000 years in geologic time. While at Phantom Ranch, the view looking above is of 1.7 billion years of geology, all swirling together in an alphabet of colors. Grand Canyon's Phantom Ranch is the story of the rustic buildings designed by architect Mary Jane Colter in 1921, of the park's first peoples, river rafters, the early trail and bridge builders, and dramatic flash floods. When travelers leave Phantom Ranch, they are never the same. For some of them, departing is as if they have just said good-bye to an old friend.
Julia Morgan (pb)
Julia Morgan (pb) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Julia Morgan (pb) write by Mark Anthony Wilson. This book was released on 2012-03. Julia Morgan (pb) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Julia Morgan, America’s first truly independent female architect, left a legacy of more than 700 buildings, many of which are now designated landmarks, in cities throughout California, as well as in Hawaii, Utah, and Illinois. Her work spanned five decades, and the total of her commissions was greater than any other major American architect, including Frank Lloyd Wright. This book tells the remarkable story of this architectural pioneer, and features text, drawings, and photographs of the many buildings that still exist.
Mammals of Grand Canyon
Mammals of Grand Canyon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mammals of Grand Canyon write by Donald F. Hoffmeister. This book was released on 1971. Mammals of Grand Canyon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Grand Canyon write by Jeremy Schmidt. This book was released on 1993. Grand Canyon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Perhaps our most spectacular park, the Grand Canyon draws over four million visitors a year. In the first series that focuses on the natural history of the individual parks, each volume describes and lists each park's characteristic animals, plants, ecosystems, and geological formations. 90 photos, 45 in color. 15 maps.
