Renowned environmental historian Philip L. Fradkin reveals the Wallace Stegner behind the literary legacy - a generous teacher, conservationist, and man whose early landscapes shaped his life and character. Fradkin chronicles Stegner's formative years, from the raw, desolate plains of Saskatchewan and the canyonlands of Utah to California's ...
How exactly has San Francisco's urban landscape changed in the hundred years since the earthquake and cataclysmic firestorms that destroyed three-quarters of the city in 1906? For this provocative rephotography project, bringing past and present into dynamic juxtaposition, renowned photographer Mark Klett has gone to the same locations pictured in ...
The first indication of the prolonged terror that followed the 1906 earthquake occurred when a ship steaming off San Francisco's Golden Gate 'seemed to jump clear out of the water.' This gripping account of the earthquake, the devastating firestorms that followed, and the city's subsequent reconstruction vividly shows how, after the shaking ...
Today one of America's most trusted financial institutions, Wells Fargo has its roots deep in America and the Old West. Pulitzer Prizewinner Fradkin offers up this history of the venerable company and details its role in creating the mythic era of Jesse James and Wyatt Earp.
Twenty-five years ago Philip L. Fradkin read a book about a remote bay on the Gulf of Alaska coast. The noted environmental historian was attracted by the threads of violence woven through the natural and human histories of Lituya Bay. Could these histories be related, and if so, how? The attempt to define the power of this wild place was a ...
The archetypal natural disaster defined on the verge of the millennium. To understand the cataclysmic earthquake that will tear California apart one day, Philip L. Fradkin has written a dramatic history of earthquakes and an eloquent guide to the San Andreas Fault, the world's best-known tectonic landscape. The author includes vivid stories of ...
Citizens exposed to fallout from Nevada nuclear tests were assured of their safety by the government. Fallout reveals the courtroom drama that unfolded when high cancer rates led people to believe they had been betrayed.
Environmental historian Philip L. Fradkin offers a history of earthquakes and a guide to the San Andreas Fault, the seismic scar that bisects the Golden State's spectacular scenery. He examines the mythology, culture, social implications, politics and science of earthquakes. Included are dramatic stories of legendary earthquakes elsewhere: in New ...
Philip L. Fradkin examines the effect California's varied landscapes has had on the societies which have developed there and discusses the associations between the landscapes of the state and peoples who inhabit them. He divides California into seven "states" or distinct ecological provinces. From each area he selects one emblematic feature--a ...
A historical and contemporary journey through one of the country's largest and least known public parks, the Uinta National Forest. 16 pages of photos, maps.
Here is the New Western History written by Philip L. Fradkin a decade before that genre was accepted by academic historians. In these timeless articles, Fradkin combines history and the environment and makes unique explorations of those two highly charged and myth-laden concepts. His articles on the intersection of land, culture, ethnicity and ...
Philip L. Fradkin examines the effect California's varied landscapes has had on the societies which have developed there and discusses the associations between the landscapes of the state and peoples who inhabit them. He divides California into seven "states" or distinct ecological provinces. From each area he selects one emblematic feature--a ...
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Univ of Arizona Pr
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780816508235ISBN:0816508232
Description: Very Good. 0816508232. Softcover, in Very Good condition, no stamps writing or marks, covers have a alittlr edge wear and scuffing, good binding, clean unmarked pages, a nice used book, ; Here is the definitive history of the development of the Colorado River and the claims made on its waters, from its source in the Wyoming Rockies to the California and Arizona borders where, so saline it kills plants, it peters out just short of the Gulf of California. Ever increasing demands on the river to ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Studio Book Viking Press
Date Published: 1974
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. HBDJ, 1974, stated 1st edition, oblong blue & Beige Cover has small Stain & slight Corner Bump, PC, minor Rub & Wear DJ, DJ several chips, stain, creases & Mended Tears, VG+/G+, AS-IS. read more
Edition: 1st printing
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780805046960ISBN:0805046968
Description: Fine in Fine dj. Gray spine/blue boards. Suggested reading, notes, index. Looks at history & threat of earthquakes along San Andreas Fault. read more
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