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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $25.00
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Manufacturer: Alaska Sea Grant College Program
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Terry Johnson
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Publisher: Alaska Sea Grant College Program
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Dewey Decimal Number: 577.7451
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Publication Date: 2003-09-30
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Reading Level: 199
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Description: The Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands are wild, raw, bountiful and virtually unknown to most people. This richly illustrated book unveils the mystery and wonder of the vast region, from the shores of Alaska, along the volcanic stretch of the Aleutian Islands, to the Russian coast. Written by University of Alaska Fairbanks associate professor Terry Johnson, the engaging and authoritative text is accompanied by more than 450 color photos, drawings, and maps showing the region's people, villages, landforms, plants, and animals. Johnson tells how the biological and physical worlds above and below the sea meld to form a complex and rich natural environment. He describes the intricacies of the marine food web and explains natural phenomena such as how the tiniest microscopic plankton feed the world's biggest animals, the great whales. The book has color photographs of fish, birds, marine mammals, and shore-scapes by some of Alaska's top outdoor photographers. The kaleidoscopic colors of the submarine environment in the Aleutians is portrayed in rare pictures of kelp forests and sea creatures photographed by pioneering scientists who plunge into the frigid waters to explore these undersea jungles. As for human culture and influences, Johnson covers highlights (and lowlights) of the region's history from early Russian exploration and exploitation and the awful hardships inflicted on Native peoples, through the U.S. purchase of Alaska, the international struggles of World War II and the Cold War, to present-day efforts to study, manage, and utilize the region's abundant but sometimes threatened natural resources.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $19.92
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Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 917.94044
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Publication Date: 1979-06-15
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Reading Level: 478
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $2.68
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Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David Scott Gilligan
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Publisher: Da Capo Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551
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Publication Date: 2006-06-21
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: For the past ten years David Gilligan has climbed all of the major mountain ranges in the world. His resulting narrative, In the Years of the Mountains, takes readers to the highest places on four continents for an up-close consideration of the cultural, geological, and biological make up of mountains. From the Swiss Alps to the Himalayas, on to New Zealand, and then back to the North American cordillera, Gilligan treats readers to adventure mixed with science and history. This book is an ode to the essence of high mountains, but it is also about wishing desperately for a good picket placement on a steep snowfield, with a yawning crevasse just feet below; about watching a pious man offer burnt juniper to the gods; and about being alone on a crystalline white summit during a temperature inversion, with purple-gray clouds spreading out like an atmospheric ocean in all directions as far as the eye can see. From a master mountaineer, explorer, and university professor, In the Years of the Mountains is an eye-opening look at mountains: a collision of the grand with the intensely personal.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $8.42
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Tracy I. Storer::Robert L. Usinger
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 574.9794
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Publication Date: 1963-11-01
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Reading Level: 374
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Description: The magnificent and much-loved Sierra Nevada, called the "Range of Light" by John Muir, is the dominant feature on the California landscape. First published forty years ago, this handbook has become an enduring natural history classic, used by thousands to learn more about virtually every aspect of this spectacular mountain range-from its superb flora and fauna to its rugged topography. Comprehensive yet concise and portable, the book describes hundreds of species: trees and shrubs, flowering plants and ferns, fungi and lichens, insects and fish, amphibians and reptiles, and birds and mammals. Now completely updated and revised, it will continue to be the essential guide to the Sierra Nevada for a new generation of hikers, campers, tourists, naturalists, students, and teachers-everyone who wants to know more about this unique and beautiful mountain range. * Describes more than 750 of the species most likely to be encountered with more than 500 new color photographs and 218 detailed black-and-white drawings * Includes engaging and accessible introductory sections on Sierra Nevada topography, climate, geological history, and human history * The compact, updated species accounts make identification easy, provide informative remarks on ecology and life history, and note which species are threatened or endangered Illustrations: 536 color photographs, 209 line illustrations, 15 illustrated plates, 1 map
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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $17.12
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Manufacturer: Great West Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Great West Books
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 917.944044
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Publication Date: 2007-10-01
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: Most of the less well known early explorers of the Sierra Nevada were private individuals, rather than government expeditions or cartographers. The more literate ones had accounts of their achievements, adventures, and
mishaps published in newspapers and journals, often accompanying them with photographs, drawings, and hand-drawn maps. Most of these wilderness travelers have been immortalized by having their names placed on mountains, lakes, and streams: Frank Dusy; Wales, Wallace, and Wright; Theodore S. Solomons; Bolton C. and Lucy Brown; Joseph N. and Marion LeConte; Lt.
Nathaniel Fish McClure; Cornelius Beach Bradley; James E. Hutchinson. These are foremost among the few who pioneered the routes that are followed by so many at the present day.
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Price: $50.00
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Sale: $10.64
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Manufacturer: "Harry N. Abrams, Inc."
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Stefan Dech::Rudiger Glasser::Reinhold Messner::Ralf-Peter Märtin
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Publisher: "Harry N. Abrams, Inc."
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.4320222
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Publication Date: 2005-11-01
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: Using highly specialized, advanced digital satellite imaging-first made possible in the year 2000 with the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission-this book presents an astounding collection of images of the Earth's mountain ranges carefully compiled over the course of five years by the German Remote Sensing Data Center. Now available to the public for the first time here, the most majestic peaks on all seven continents are visible as they never would be to the naked eye-in views taken from 500 to 15 miles above the Earth that reveal the entire mountain range at once, unobstructed by clouds, haze, and the refraction of light.
Mountains from Space is much more than a collection of extraordinary pictures; it is a serious work of nonfiction about every important aspect of these fascinating geological formations, from their genesis by volcanic activity to their specific sociological features. Contributions by esteemed scientists and mountaineers alike highlight this provocative study of our planet Earth.
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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $31.50
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Manufacturer: Utah State University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jeffrey Carlstrom::Cynthia Furse
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Publisher: Utah State University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 979.225
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Publication Date: 2003-10-01
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Reading Level: 312
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Description: This comprehensive and well-illustrated history of one of the more significant historical areas in Utah offers a case study of the development of a scenic, rural area near a major western metropolis. Emigration Canyon was the original route, opened by the Donner party, through the Wasatch Mountains into Salt Lake Valley. It subsequently was the route for pioneer settlers, overland wagon trains, freight and mail lines, and the pony express, and it remained an important transportation corridor even after the development of alternative roads. Subsequently, the canyon provided stone, timber, and grazing resources for the developing city below it; began to be homesteaded; provided a route for one of the Wasatch Range’s more interesting narrow gauge railroads; and became a resort community. Its history since the Great Depression has been one of gradual development as a Salt Lake City suburb. Because of its location in the mountains, it has attracted local city dwellers as visitors or residents, and because of its strategic position above the city, it has continued to capture the attention of government and politicians, as repeated contests over water, development, annexation, and zoning of the canyon have shown.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $11.50
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Manufacturer: University of Georgia Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Christopher Camuto
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Publisher: University of Georgia Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 976.889
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Publication Date: 2000-03
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Reading Level: 351
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Description: The southern Appalachians encompass one of the most beautiful, biologically diverse, and historically important regions of North America. In the widely acclaimed Another Country: Journeying toward the Cherokee Mountains, Christopher Camuto describes the tragic collision of natural and cultural history embedded in the region. In the spirit of Thoreau's "Walking, " Camuto explores the Appalachian summit country of the Great Smoky Mountains -- the historical home of the Cherokee -- searching for access to the nature, history, and spirit or a magnificent, if diminished, landscape. As the author takes the reader through old growth forests and ancient myths, he tells of the attempted restoration of Canis rufus, the controversial red wolf, to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. He details the impact of European occupation and his meditations on the enduring relevance of Cherokee language, thought, and mythology evoke an appreciation of what were once sacred rivers, forests, and mountains. Through this attempt "to catch glimpses of the Cherokee Mountains beyond the veil of the southern Appalachians, " Camuto forges a new consciousness about the complex, conflicted past hidden there and leaves us with an important, thought-provoking book about a haunting American region.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $1.95
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Manufacturer: The Lyons Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Rob Schultheis
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Publisher: The Lyons Press
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 978.823
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Publication Date: 2001-03
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Reading Level: 244
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Description: Telluride, Colorado, was once a place where a man could earn a beating for wearing his hair long, a woman an unsavory reputation for living alone. No more, writes Rob Schultheis in this lively portrait of the old mining town. Set in the San Juan spur of the Rocky Mountains in a landscape that Schultheis calls "the most twisted, convoluted, cantankerous, crumpled, moiled, roiled, paradoxical, and one-step-forward-three-steps-back terrain the Great Spirit ... ever conspired to create," Telluride wasn't quite ready for the 20th century when Schultheis arrived in 1973. By the time he and his freewheeling fellow travelers finished putting their touches on the mountain-bound burg, Telluride had become a hippie Shangri-la. The place was so attractive, in fact, that it soon fell victim to the gentrification that had undone so many other rural countercultural havens, and Telluride emerged by the end of the 1980s as one of the West's most expensive and exclusive resorts. Schultheis, the author of The Hidden West and a longtime correspondent for Outside magazine, offers an entertaining chronicle of the way things used to be in the era of VW vans and Grateful Dead tapes, before big money rolled into town. Even today, he notes, some of the old ways remain: despite new dams and condominiums, he tells us, San Miguel County still lacks a single stoplight--"and as for stop signs, it [is] hard to find one that hadn't been riddled by a shotgun blast or perforated by small-arms fire." Celebrating the landscape and its people without false nostalgia, Schultheis's essays are shot through with good humor and sharp observation, and his book marks a welcome return. --Gregory McNamee
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Price: $37.50
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Sale: $12.00
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Manufacturer: Collins Pub San Francisco
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jeremy Schmidt::Thomas Schmidt
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Publisher: Collins Pub San Francisco
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Dewey Decimal Number: 917.87550433
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Publication Date: 1996-04
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Reading Level: 132
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