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Manufacturer: Thomas Dunne Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jack Turner
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Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.78755
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Publication Date: 2000-06-08
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: Skillfully blending history, memory, and observation, philosopher-cum-mountain guide Jack Turner's Teewinot is a year in the life of Wyoming's Teton Range, as told by a true believer. Certainly he captures a sense of the mountains--not only their jagged rock, hidden valleys, and beaten trails, but the flora, fauna, and folks who inhabit them. He navigates this territory with the poise and purpose of a skilled climber--feeling for holds, finding one, adjusting balance, reaching out again in a different direction, pausing on those features whose nuances fit best, but never lingering too long. His narrative meanders between peaks, seasons, communities, periods of history, and moments in time. While lacking much of the intensity in tone and the invitation to controversy of his previous work, The Abstract Wild, Teewinot is still underscored by a deep environmental consciousness and concern for the future of the wild. Turner notes, for instance, the numerous and varied ways Homo sapiens have scarred his beloved wilderness: the trash left behind by campers, the wildlife pushed out of their usual haunts, the rash of development in Jackson Hole. But he also manages to skirt the role played by guide companies like Exum (his employer), noting only that "Exum, of course, is a part of the problem--a small part." Maybe this is denial, a practice he labels "the first line of defense." Or perhaps he relies on the climber's "prizewinning talent for dissociating emotion" to shield him. Whatever, he is content to leave these questions unanswered. Many readers will also be content to leave them as such--a worthwhile trade for a glimpse into a climber's soul. --Rene Henery
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $32.56
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Manufacturer: Orca Book Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Chris Czajkowski
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Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 971.1104092
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Publication Date: 1999-09
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Reading Level: 179
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Description: At once a riveting adventure story and a testament to one woman's resourcefulness, Nuk Tessli is also a heartfelt elegy to the true wilderness and a cry for it's sensible use.
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Price: $9.95
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Sale: $5.46
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Manufacturer: Browntrout Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robert Hutchinson
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Publisher: Browntrout Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 974.23
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Publication Date: 2003-05-22
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Reading Level: 48
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Description: The Old Man of the Mountain is a timely photographic memorial to New Hampshire's beloved emblem, the colossal profile of natural granite in the White Mountains that suddenly collapsed on May 3, 2003. Many devoted friends of the Old Man have generously contributed to this remembrance. New Hampshire nature photographer William Johnson contributes his stunning portfolio of images showing the changing aspects of the Old Man in all seasons and atmospheric conditions. Dick Hamilton, president of White Mountains Attractions and member of the Old Man Revitalization Task Force, contributes his amazing close-ups of the Old Man taken from unfamiliar angles, including helicopter shots of the Old Man site for several decades before--and on the very day after--the collapse. The New Hampshire Historical Society contributes fascinating art images of this national icon over the last two centuries. Vincent Dunn, retired New Hampshire Superior Court Justice, contributes a thoughtful foreword about the enduring symbolism and emotional resonance of the Old Man. The natural and human history of the Old Man are reviewed in a lively text by geologist Robert Hutchinson.
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $28.75
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Manufacturer: University of Texas Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Joe Nick Patoski
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Publisher: University of Texas Press
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 917.6400222
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Publication Date: 2001-11-15
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Reading Level: 156
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Description: Some of the most beautiful views in Texas are also the most remote. Seemingly endless miles lie between the isolated mountain ranges of the Trans-Pecos and the more populous parts of Texas and New Mexico, ensuring that only those who really crave the solitude, rugged loveliness, and hundred-mile vistas of the mountains will ever make the trek. In this book, Laurence Parent and Joe Nick Patoski join forces to offer breathtaking views of the Texas mountains. With magnificent images and words, they take us on a journey not only through the familiar Guadalupe, Davis, and Chisos mountains, but also through lesser-known ranges with evocative names such as Sierra Diablo, Eagle, Chinati, Beach, and Christmas. Capturing the Texas mountains from first light to the glowing rays of sunset and from winter snows to summer droughts, Parent's photographs reveal many hidden treasures—pine forests, waterfalls, old forts, aspens, movie sets, Indian pictographs, and red-rock pinnacles. Patoski's text ranges as widely as the photos, using places from Marathon to El Paso's Franklin Mountains as starting points for "field notes" that explore the myriad ways in which the land has shaped and been shaped by the people who live on it. For everyone who longs for mountain views and wide-open spaces, Texas Mountains comes as close to being there as you can get without endless driving.
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $15.94
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Manufacturer: Westcliffe Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Calendar
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Author: Wall 12
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Publisher: Westcliffe Publishers
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Publication Date: 2008-06
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $12.71
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Manufacturer: Mountaineers Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Stephen R. Whitney::Rob Sandelin
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Publisher: Mountaineers Books
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Edition: 2 Revised
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.795
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Publication Date: 2004-04
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Reading Level: 317
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Description: The "what's that?" guide to Northwest plants and animals--now expanded, updated, and in full color! * More than 700 color illustrations for easy identification
* Expanded with new sections on mushrooms, insects, and rock identification
* Handy color tabs for easy access, and quick reference index on back cover Don't just call it a mushroom when it's a golden chanterelle; know your screech owl from your saw-whet owl; distinguish a monarch butterfly from a painted lady--all with the help of this comprehensive guide to the common plants and animals of the Cascade and Olympic Mountains. The species accounts have been updated with the latest taxonomic changes and, as before, include common name, scientific name, and description of important features, habitat, and geographic range.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $10.63
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Manufacturer: University of Utah Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David M. Rose
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Publisher: University of Utah Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 796.5220979214
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Publication Date: 2004-03-22
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Reading Level: 208
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $9.95
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Manufacturer: University Press of Colorado
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Duane A. Smith
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Publisher: University Press of Colorado
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Edition: Rev Sub
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Dewey Decimal Number: 978.827
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Publication Date: 2003-01
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: Originally published in 1988, "Mesa Verde National Park: Shadows of the Centuries" is an engaging and artfully illustrated history of an enigmatic assemblage of canyons and mesas tucked into the southwestern corner of Colorado. Duane A Smith recounts the dramatic 1888 'discovery' of the cliff dwellings and other Anasazi ruins and the ensuing twenty-year campaign to preserve them. Smith also details the resulting creation of a national park in 1906 and assesses the impact of more recent developments - railroads and highways, air pollution, and the growing significance of tourism - on the park's financial and ecological vitality. This revised and completely redesigned edition includes more than 50 illustrations and will be enjoyed by readers interested in environmental, Western, and Colorado history.
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $21.00
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Manufacturer: University of Washington Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: David Stradling
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Publisher: University of Washington Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 303.4827473807471
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Publication Date: 2008-01-22
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Reading Level: 311
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Description: For over two hundred years, the Catskill Mountains have been repeatedly and dramatically transformed by New York City. In "Making Mountains", David Stradling shows the transformation of the Catskills landscape as a collaborative process, one in which local and urban hands, capital, and ideas have come together to reshape the mountains and the communities therein, with environmental, economic, and cultural consequences. Early on, the Catskills were an important source of natural resources. Later, when New York City needed to expand its water supply, engineers helped direct the city toward the Catskills, claiming that the mountains offered the purest and most cost-effective waters.By the 1960s, New York had created a great reservoir and aqueduct system in the mountains that now supplies the city with 90 percent of its water. The Catskills also served as a critical space in which the nation's ideas about nature evolved. Stradling describes the great influence of writers and artists - especially the painters of the Hudson River School, whose ideal landscapes created expectations about how rural America should appear.By the mid-1800s, urban residents had turned the Catskills into an important vacation ground, and by the late 1800s, the Catskills had become one of the premiere resort regions in the nation. In the mid-twentieth century, the older Catskill resort region was in steep decline, but the Jewish 'Borscht Belt' in the southern Catskills was thriving. The automobile revitalized mountain tourism and residence, and increased the threat of suburbanization of the historic landscape. Throughout each of these significant incarnations, urban and rural residents worked in a rough collaboration, though not without conflict, to reshape the mountains and American ideas about rural landscapes and nature.
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Price: $13.99
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Sale: $9.97
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Brand: Amber Lotus
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Manufacturer: Amber Lotus Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Calendar
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Author: Jane English
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Publisher: Amber Lotus Publishing
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Edition: Wal
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Publication Date: 2008-07-10
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Reading Level: 26
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Description: Towering 14,162 feet above sea level in far northern California, Mount Shasta is a landmark comparable to Japan's Mount Fuji. Home to California's largest glacier, it is also one of the volcanoes of the Cascade Range, part of the Pacific Ocean's 'Ring of Fire.' For the Mount Shasta 2009 wall calendar, photographer Jane English has collected images by herself and other photographers and paired them with inspirational writings that give diverse perspectives on this magnificent mountain.
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