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Handbook volume 105
Publisher
for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off
Pub. Date
1980
Language
English
Publisher
Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
Traces the natural and human history of Alcatraz Island, including accounts of early Native American settlements, old fortifications, escape attempts from Alcatraz prison, the lives of prison guards and their families, and the Native American takeover of 1969.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire of August, 1910, and Teddy Roosevelt's pioneering conservation efforts that helped turn public opinion permanently in favor of the forests, though it changed the mission of the forest service with consequences felt in the fires of today.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Traces the birth of the national park idea in the mid-1800s and follows its evolution for nearly 150 years. Using archival photographs, first-person accounts of historical characters, personal memories and analysis from more than 40 interviews, the series chronicles the steady addition of new parks through the stories of the people who helped create them and save them from destruction.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In this evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative, Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan delve into the history of the park idea, from the first sighting by white men in 1851 of the valley that would become Yosemite and the creation of the world's first national park at Yellowstone in 1872, through the most recent additions to a system that now encompasses nearly four hundred sites and 84 million acres.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"The irrepressibly charming duo of Emerson Knight and Riley Moon returns in another gripping mystery by #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich. Buddhist monk Wayan Bagus lost his island of solitude and wants to get it back. The island was about two hundred miles northeast of Samoa. It had a mountain, beaches, a rain forest, and a volcano. And now it's gone. Poof! Vanished without a trace. Brilliant and boyishly charming Emerson Knight...
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