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Author : John W. Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)
Download or read book The San Gabriels written by John W. Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mickael Taddeo
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1770979093
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)
Download or read book Gabriel's Mountain written by Mickael Taddeo and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I sleep on the Mountain, next to my secret cave. All night I dream about walking in the desert. Somehow, I wake up at the foot of Mont Royal s cross." The story of a Montreal homeless man, anguished by disturbing images, who realizes he s a time-travel fugitive hunted by the CIA for his link to pre-Christian writings. With the help of a sixteenth century New-France explorer, an underground society inhabited by mysterious children, ex-agents, homeless and Aboriginal friends, Gabriel Norson is ready to battle a Draconian empire that has matured for eons on Earth. As Gabriel reads these sacred texts on Mont Royal, a lysergic kaleidoscope of events ignites that may dismantle the foundation of faith upon this planet."
Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375701877
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)
Download or read book Go Tell It on the Mountain written by James Baldwin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin tells the story of the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Originally published in 1953, Baldwin said of his first novel, "Mountain is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." “With vivid imagery, with lavish attention to details ... [a] feverish story.” —The New York Times
Author : John Robinson
Publisher : Wilderness Press
ISBN 13 : 0899977146
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)
Download or read book Trails of the Angeles written by John Robinson and published by Wilderness Press. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rugged San Gabriel Mountains, rising starkly from the edge of the Los Angeles Basin, provide a sharp contrast to the hustle and bustle of the city and its surroundings. Angelinos across the county (a population of almost 10 million), as well as visitors from out of state, welcome the opportunity to escape from city chaos into the quiet wilderness. This 9th edition of the classic Wilderness Press guide has been revised and updated to reflect recent trail changes, and now includes trips in the Fish Canyon Narrows, along Alder Creek, and to Jones Peak, as well as perennial favorites such as Old Baldy, Mt. Wilson, and Devils Punchbowl. Each detailed trip description notes the distance, difficulty, and ideal season, and points out the highlights of the trail. The guide includes a companion 4-color waterproof topo map.
Author : Casey Schreiner
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 1680510096
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)
Download or read book Day Hiking Los Angeles written by Casey Schreiner and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature is just around the corner in the City of Angels
Author : Ronald C. Woolsey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)
Download or read book Will Thrall and the San Gabriels written by Ronald C. Woolsey and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1930s and '40s Will Thrall was the leading voice in encouraging people to walk the San Gabriels' mountain trails and camp under the stars. A thorough biography of this influential and fascinating conservationist.
Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374708495
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Control of Nature written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While John McPhee was working on his previous book, Rising from the Plains, he happened to walk by the engineering building at the University of Wyoming, where words etched in limestone said: "Strive on--the control of Nature is won, not given." In the morning sunlight, that central phrase--"the control of nature"--seemed to sparkle with unintended ambiguity. Bilateral, symmetrical, it could with equal speed travel in opposite directions. For some years, he had been planning a book about places in the world where people have been engaged in all-out battles with nature, about (in the words of the book itself) "any struggle against natural forces--heroic or venal, rash or well advised--when human beings conscript themselves to fight against the earth, to take what is not given, to rout the destroying enemy, to surround the base of Mt. Olympus demanding and expecting the surrender of the gods." His interest had first been sparked when he went into the Atchafalaya--the largest river swamp in North America--and had learned that virtually all of its waters were metered and rationed by a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' project called Old River Control. In the natural cycles of the Mississippi's deltaic plain, the time had come for the Mississippi to change course, to shift its mouth more than a hundred miles and go down the Atchafalaya, one of its distributary branches. The United States could not afford that--for New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and all the industries that lie between would be cut off from river commerce with the rest of the nation. At a place called Old River, the Corps therefore had built a great fortress--part dam, part valve--to restrain the flow of the Atchafalaya and compel the Mississippi to stay where it is. In Iceland, in 1973, an island split open without warning and huge volumes of lava began moving in the direction of a harbor scarcely half a mile away. It was not only Iceland's premier fishing port (accounting for a large percentage of Iceland's export economy) but it was also the only harbor along the nation's southern coast. As the lava threatened to fill the harbor and wipe it out, a physicist named Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson suggested a way to fight against the flowing red rock--initiating an all-out endeavor unique in human history. On the big island of Hawaii, one of the world's two must eruptive hot spots, people are not unmindful of the Icelandic example. McPhee went to Hawaii to talk with them and to walk beside the edges of a molten lake and incandescent rivers. Some of the more expensive real estate in Los Angeles is up against mountains that are rising and disintegrating as rapidly as any in the world. After a complex coincidence of natural events, boulders will flow out of these mountains like fish eggs, mixed with mud, sand, and smaller rocks in a cascading mass known as debris flow. Plucking up trees and cars, bursting through doors and windows, filling up houses to their eaves, debris flows threaten the lives of people living in and near Los Angeles' famous canyons. At extraordinary expense the city has built a hundred and fifty stadium-like basins in a daring effort to catch the debris. Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strategies and tactics through which people attempt to control nature. Most striking in his vivid depiction of the main contestants: nature in complex and awesome guises, and those who would attempt to wrest control from her--stubborn, often ingenious, and always arresting characters.
Author : Casey Schreiner
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 1680512676
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)
Download or read book Discovering Griffith Park written by Casey Schreiner and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People all over the world have seen Los Angeles’s famed "Hollywood" sign and the iconic domed Griffith Observatory. Both are part of Griffith Park, a place visited by more than 10 million people each year--more than Yosemite and Grand Canyon National Parks combined. Rugged and vast, the 4,511-acre Griffith Park encompasses a sprawling 70-mile long network of trails, ranging from paved paths through manicured landscapes to challenging ridgeline climbs, and is a destination for hikers, trail runners, cyclists, equestrians, picnickers, and museum-goers. It’s a unique outdoor space in a city that is not well known for its outdoor amenities. Discovering Griffith Park uses the park’s extensive trail network as an anchor to explore the park in full, whether on foot, wheel, or hoof. Readers will also find out where the best views of the Hollywood sign are, where they can catch free Shakespeare on summer evenings, and how to attend one of the legendary Los Angeles Breakfast Club meetings for good food, good friends, and a bit of early morning learning
Author : Michael Edward Kauffmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578094168
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)
Download or read book Conifer Country written by Michael Edward Kauffmann and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mickael Taddeo
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1770979107
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)
Download or read book Gabriel's Mountain written by Mickael Taddeo and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I sleep on the Mountain, next to my secret cave. All night I dream about walking in the desert. Somehow, I wake up at the foot of Mont Royal s cross." The story of a Montreal homeless man, anguished by disturbing images, who realizes he s a time-travel fugitive hunted by the CIA for his link to pre-Christian writings. With the help of a sixteenth century New-France explorer, an underground society inhabited by mysterious children, ex-agents, homeless and Aboriginal friends, Gabriel Norson is ready to battle a Draconian empire that has matured for eons on Earth. As Gabriel reads these sacred texts on Mont Royal, a lysergic kaleidoscope of events ignites that may dismantle the foundation of faith upon this planet."
