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.
A travel guide for nature lovers. Features thousands of sites of ecological and geographical importance and beauty, hidden trails, and scenic destinations. A comprehensive resource including color relief maps, itineraries with directions, addresses and phone numbers of sites, advice about outdoor activities, and 150 color photographs.
Chronicles the journey of four experienced mountaineers as they circumnavigated the Himalayas, and describes the people encountered as well as the joys, hardships, and triumphs of the journey.
This new and updated edition of the popular guide offers drivers side-by-sidemap and text commentary on the scenery, wildlife, geology, and history of twofavorite parks. 30 photos. Maps.
This guidebook takes travellers to natural sites in the Northern Rockies, from the national parks to the state parks, national wildlife refuges, conservation areas, and wild and scenic rivers.
Beautifully written and illustrated, this book follows Lewis and Clark from the inception of their expedition to find the fabled Northwest Passage to their celebrated homecoming. 3 gatefolds. Illustrations.
Beautifully written and illustrated, this book follows Lewis and Clark from the inception of their expedition to their celebrated homecoming. Illustrations focus on maps, current photographs of still-virgin wilderness, and annotated sketches from plants and animals they archived.
The 2,000-mile Rocky Mountain region--including Yellowstone, Grand Teton, and Glacier National Parks and other sites--draws 50 million visitors annually to its world-famed attractions. This comprehensive guide profiles the region's panorama of outdoor activities and examines specific parks, wilderness areas, wild rivers, trails and campgrounds, ...
In 2004, Yosemite received 3.3 million visitors, 500,000 more than Yellowstone - the road guide sold more than 11,000 copies in a year. This guide is completely dedicated to driving the parks, with mileage markers and sight-by-sight descriptions. This user-friendly guide follows the major roads in Yosemite National Park with detailed maps. Along ...
New and updated editions of these popular, low-priced guides--the definitive companion for road trippers--offer drivers side-by-side map and text commentary on the scenery, wildlife, geology, and history of the most spectacular and popular parks. The revised and updated series offers travelers user-friendly guides that follow the major roads ...
In this fascinating photo essay, the unlikely relationship between man and elephant is captured by Ted Wood's dramatic pictures and Jeremy Schmidt's lively prose. Full-color photos.
In 1975 TJ's mother was only a chid when she escaped war-torn Vietnam and came to America. Almost 20 years later, she took her eldest son back to meet the family he had never known and to experence firsthand the country and the culture she left behind. Full-color photos.
The Grand Tetons are the youngest and most spectacular mountains in the United States. The Tetons rocket upward from the sage-covered plain to soar through veils of mist, bearing witness to a dramatic geological upheaval.
Stretching from the northern reaches of British Columbia and Alberta through Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and Colorado to New Mexico, the Rocky Mountains encompass Banff, Jasper, Grand Teton, Yellowstone, and Glacier National Parks, among others. This Sierra Club Adventure Travel guide covers five regions in detail, including seasonal activities, ...
Melancholy is rightly taken to be a central topic and concern of early modern culture, and it continues to generate scholarly interest among historians of medicine, literature, psychiatry, and religion. This book considerably furthers our understanding of the issue by examining the extensive discussions of the treatment of melancholy provided in ...
In "Unfoldeda "Paper in Design, Art, Architecture and Industry" paper conquers the third dimension and demonstrates the undreamed-of possibilities it holds today for lightweight construction, product design, fashion and art. From "Paper," the collection of bags by Stefan Diez, to Konstantin Grcica (TM)s paper models and the scented paper garments ...
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