Beautiful Land Of The Sky

Author : Loren M. Wood
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475994478
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Land of the Sky written by Loren M. Wood and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Muir is considered to be the supreme icon of western wilderness and preservation. His counterpart in the east is Harlan P. Kelsey, an often obscure and forgotten figure. In Beautiful Land of the Sky, author Loren M. Wood chronicles Kelseys journey from the humblest of beginnings to national prominence in horticulture and the establishment of national parks in the eastern United States. In this biography, Wood tells how, a century ago, Kelsey was the first to pioneer native plants for the American landscape and a leader in that process; how he was a leading participant in bringing all of America to our native plants in their finest original setting; and how he helped make a reality of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a zenith of horticultural biomass and diversity in America. In addition, this biography explores the parallels in the odysseys of Muir and Kelsey. Though primarily a biography of Kelsey, Wood compares the similarities, differences, and accomplishments of the two men. Including details gathered from more than fifty thousand items in Kelseys personal files, Beautiful Land of the Sky narrates the inspiring and entertaining story of how the idea of national parks was implemented east of the Mississippi.

Author : Christian Reid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "The Land of the Sky", Or, Adventures in Mountain By-ways written by Christian Reid and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard D. Starnes
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817356045
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating the Land of the Sky written by Richard D. Starnes and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2010-03-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sophisticated inquiry into tourism's social and economic power across the South. In the early 19th century, planter families from South Carolina, Georgia, and eastern North Carolina left their low-country estates during the summer to relocate their households to vacation homes in the mountains of western North Carolina. Those unable to afford the expense of a second home relaxed at the hotels that emerged to meet their needs. This early tourist activity set the stage for tourism to become the region's New South industry. After 1865, the development of railroads and the bugeoning consumer culture led to the expansion of tourism across the whole region. Richard Starnes argues that western North Carolina benefited from the romanticized image of Appalachia in the post-Civil War American consciousness. This image transformed the southern highlands into an exotic travel destination, a place where both climate and culture offered visitors a myriad of diversions. This depiction was futher bolstered by partnerships between state and federal agencies, local boosters, and outside developers to create the atrtactions necessary to lure tourists to the region. As tourism grew, so did the tension between leaders in the industry and local residents. The commodification of regional culture, low-wage tourism jobs, inflated land prices, and negative personal experiences bred no small degree of animosity among mountain residents toward visitors. Starnes's study provides a better understanding of the significant role that tourism played in shaping communities across the South.

Author : Morgan Daimler
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557495121
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book By Land, Sea, and Sky written by Morgan Daimler and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-07-02 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a selection of modernized, paganized prayers and charms from volumes one and two of Carmichael's Carmina Gadelica, intended for use by Druids, Celtic Reconstructionists, or others interested in Celtic spiritulaity. The Carmina Gadelica is a six volume collection of prayers, charms, and folklore from Scotland assembled around 1900 by Alexander Carmichael. This book represents modernized, re-paganized versions of selected prayers and charms from the first two volumes of the series. It is designed to be used by Celtic Polytheists, Druids, or anyone else interested in Celtic Spirituality. All original deity references have been replaced with the names of Irish gods, and the language has been modernized, but otherwise the content has been kept as true to the original as possible.

Author : Christian Reid
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015985421
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land Of The Sky written by Christian Reid and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Huldah Lucile Winsted
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book North Dakota - Land of the Sky and Other Poems written by Huldah Lucile Winsted and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Southern Railway (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land of the Sky written by Southern Railway (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kay Kenyon
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1591028256
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bright of the Sky written by Kay Kenyon and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kay Kenyon, noted for her science fiction world-building, has in this new series created her most vivid and compelling society, the Universe Entire. In a land-locked galaxy that tunnels through our own, the Entire is a bizarre and seductive mix of long-lived quasi-human and alien beings gathered under a sky of fire, called the bright. A land of wonders, the Entire is sustained by monumental storm walls and an exotic, never-ending river. Over all, the elegant and cruel Tarig rule supreme. Into this rich milieu is thrust Titus Quinn, former star pilot, bereft of his beloved wife and daughter who are assumed dead by everyone on earth except Quinn. Believing them trapped in a parallel universe—one where he himself may have been imprisoned—he returns to the Entire without resources, language, or his memories of that former life. He is assisted by Anzi, a woman of the Chalin people, a Chinese culture copied from our own universe and transformed by the kingdom of the bright. Learning of his daughter’s dreadful slavery, Quinn swears to free her. To do so, he must cross the unimaginable distances of the Entire in disguise, for the Tarig are lying in wait for him. As Quinn’s memories return, he discovers why. Quinn’s goal is to penetrate the exotic culture of the Entire—to the heart of Tarig power, the fabulous city of the Ascendancy, to steal the key to his family’s redemption. But will his daughter and wife welcome rescue? Ten years of brutality have forced compromises on everyone. What Quinn will learn to his dismay is what his own choices were, long ago, in the Universe Entire. He will also discover why a fearful multiverse destiny is converging on him and what he must sacrifice to oppose the coming storm. This is high-concept SF written on the scale of Philip Jose Farmer’s Riverworld, Roger Zelazny’s Amber Chronicles, and Dan Simmons’s Hyperion.

Author : Christian Reid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "The Land of the Sky;" Or, Adventures in Mountain By-ways written by Christian Reid and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Reid (Mrs. Frances Tiernan) wrote this her tenth novel in 1875. This book gave the North Carolina mountain region its name. A charming yet highly significant book, also included is an 1877 nonfiction article by Reid about the mountains. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Karen Ross
Publisher : Jeanine Kitchel
ISBN 13 : 0974483907
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where the Sky Is Born written by Karen Ross and published by Jeanine Kitchel. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journey of Jeanine Kitchel and her husband as they traveled to the Yucatan in 1985 and a decade later, left their Silicon Valley jobs to pursue a relaxed lifestyle in Puerto Morelos, a small fishing village on the Quintana Roo Coast south of Cancun.