Crossing The Salt Flats

Author : Christopher Wiseman
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
ISBN 13 : 9780889842106
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crossing the Salt Flats written by Christopher Wiseman and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 1999 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Christopher Wiseman invariably writes poems about basic human experiences, and in this collection, one of his finest, he is especially concerned with his family and ancestors. He emigrated from England as a young man, and his wife has relatives in the United States, so many of these poems involve travel -- but travel to one's human origins. Because the emphasis is on emotions we all share, however, the poems are never obviously or embarrassingly private; on the contrary, they are readily accessible and make an immediate impact -- though their subtleties may not reveal themselves until they have been reread and fully absorbed.'

Author : Lansford Warren Hastings
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1557092451
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emigrant's Guide to Oregon and California written by Lansford Warren Hastings and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1845, this guidebook for pioneers is a reproduction of one of the most collectible books about California and the Western movement. It was the guidebook used by the Donner Party on their fateful journey. In addition, because Hastings' shortcut route through the Rockies produced such tragedy, the War Department commissioned The Prairie Traveler.

Author : Syracuse (N.Y.). Grade Crossing Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report on Grade Crossing Elimination in the City Syracuse written by Syracuse (N.Y.). Grade Crossing Commission and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Adolph Murie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fauna of the National Parks of the United States written by Adolph Murie and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Clive Randall
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1411661095
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Very British Crossing of the USA written by Clive Randall and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Middle age calls for an adventure. Not an earth shattering adventure, but something a 40 year old father of two can handle. Drive around the United States in a 1948 open top tourer, for more than 9000 miles? It turned out to be a lot harder than it seemed....

Author : John R. Tharp
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Cross written by John R. Tharp and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John R. Tharp was issued a challenge while preparing for a class reunion: Could he bicycle all the way to the event? The author’s wife, however, decided to make it more interesting. “Why don’t you just cross the whole country?” she asked. After all, she knew her husband was no stranger to adventure. Scuba diving, mountain climbing, skiing, and trips to Hawaii, Africa, the Middle East, numerous islands in the Caribbean, Panama, St. Luci, Australia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and the Bahamas have kept life exciting. Taken in tandem, the two challenges left the fifty-one-year-old pastor with only one choice: He decided to brave the wilds of the western deserts, thrill to the steep verticals of the Rockies, take in the sweeping vistas of the Great Plains, and make his way to the lush hills of the eastern seaboard. Along the way, he was deeply touched by the marvels of nature, interesting people, and amazing coincidences that ignited his faith and brought a deeper hue to the rich colors of the adventure.

Author : Stephen Benz
Publisher : Etruscan Press
ISBN 13 : 0999753487
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Topographies written by Stephen Benz and published by Etruscan Press. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wild ride on the madcap streets of Guatemala City. A twilight walk through old Havana with a Cuban mailman. A canoe trip in search of a lost grave in the Everglades. These are some of the experiences Stephen Benz describes in Topographies, an insightful and evocative collection of personal essays.

Author : Erin Hogan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226348482
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spiral Jetta written by Erin Hogan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erin Hogan hit the road in her Volkswagen Jetta and headed west from Chicago in search of the monuments of American land art: a salty coil of rocks, four hundred stainless steel poles, a gash in a mesa, four concrete tubes, and military sheds filled with cubes. Her journey took her through the states of Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. It also took her through the states of anxiety, drunkenness, disorientation, and heat exhaustion. Spiral Jetta is a chronicle of this journey. A lapsed art historian and devoted urbanite, Hogan initially sought firsthand experience of the monumental earthworks of the 1970s and the 1980s—Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels, Walter De Maria’s Lightning Field, James Turrell’s Roden Crater, Michael Heizer’s Double Negative, and the contemporary art mecca of Marfa, Texas. Armed with spotty directions, no compass, and less-than-desert-appropriate clothing, she found most of what she was looking for and then some. “I was never quite sure what Hogan was looking for when she set out . . . or indeed whether she found it. But I loved the ride. In Spiral Jetta, an unashamedly honest, slyly uproarious, ever-probing book, art doesn’t magically have the power to change lives, but it can, perhaps no less powerfully, change ways of seeing.”—Tom Vanderbilt, New YorkTimes Book Review “The reader emerges enlightened and even delighted. . . . Casually scrutinizing the artistic works . . . while gamely playing up her fish-out-of-water status, Hogan delivers an ingeniously engaging travelogue-cum-art history.”—Atlantic “Smart and unexpectedly hilarious.”—Kevin Nance, ChicagoSun-Times “One of the funniest and most entertaining road trips to be published in quite some time.”—June Sawyers, ChicagoTribune “Hogan ruminates on how the work affects our sense of time, space, size, and scale. She is at her best when she reexamines the precepts of modernism in the changing light of New Mexico, and shows how the human body is meant to be a participant in these grand constructions.”—New Yorker

Author : “LandSpeed” Louise Ann Noeth
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467107131
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bonneville's Women of Land Speed Racing written by “LandSpeed” Louise Ann Noeth and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Bonneville, record holders must first earn the right to present themselves on the starting line. This requires passing rigorous safety and technical checks for driver, rider, and speed machine. Gender is inconsequential. Through the years, more than 200 women have made the cut and donned fireproof clothing and helmets. Dozens have set land speed records--35 in excess of 200 miles per hour, six above 300 miles per hour, and one deaf female racer who roared past 500 miles per hour. Equally impressive are the women who helped propel the helmeted gals into glory. Few know how many women are skilled fabricators, mechanics, crew chiefs, and all-round land speed racing experts, all working out on a brutal, merciless, and barren sodium-soaked playa. And for decades dedicated volunteers have not only put down that all-important starting line but erected a speed village that inspired tens of thousands to visit, taunting the timing lights run after run. Since 1949, women have played an integral part. Without question, land speed racing has more women actively participating and setting records than any other segment of motorsports in the world.

Author : Gregory C. Lines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hydrology and Surface Morphology of the Bonneville Salt Flats and Pilot Valley Playa, Utah written by Gregory C. Lines and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: