In Search Of The Old Ones

Author : David Roberts
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780684832128
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of the Old Ones written by David Roberts and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1997-04-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exuberant, hands-on fly-on-the-wall account that combines the thrill of canyoneering and rock climbing with the intellectual sleuthing of archaeology to explore the Anasazi. David Roberts describes the culture of the Anasazi—the name means “enemy ancestors” in Navajo—who once inhabited the Colorado Plateau and whose modern descendants are the Hopi Indians of Arizona. Archaeologists, Roberts writes, have been puzzling over the Anasazi for more than a century, trying to determine the environmental and cultural stresses that caused their society to collapse 700 years ago. He guides us through controversies in the historical record, among them the haunting question of whether the Anasazi committed acts of cannibalism. Roberts’s book is full of up-to-date thinking on the culture of the ancient people who lived in the harsh desert country of the Southwest.

Author : Anthony D. Fredericks
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588347486
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of the Old Ones written by Anthony D. Fredericks and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary journey to visit the oldest trees in the United States that beautifully reveals the connection between humans and natural history— a perfect read for nature lovers and fans of The Hidden Life of Trees. Follow award-winning author Anthony D. Fredericks's adventures across the United States to uncover the remarkable secrets and lives of ancient trees. He introduces some of the oldest trees in the country using up-to-date research, interviews with scientists, captivating storytelling, and a contagious wonder for the natural world. Fredericks's visits to the trees turn readers into fellow travelers. Through firsthand accounts and scientific detail, these enduring trees come to life off the page. Each chapter begins with a time-travel story that immerses readers in Earth's past, as early as ~58,000 BCE, for a sweeping view of what was happening during human history when the ancient tree took root. It then zooms into present-day to investigate the tree in all its mature glory and the changed world around it. Some of the featured trees include: A 13,000-year-old Palmer's oak in California that survives by cloning itself The 1,200-year-old Seven Sisters Oak in Louisiana that has survived in the path of at least ten major hurricanes 2,000-year-old redwoods (the tallest trees in the world) on the California coast The 2,628 year old bald cypress in the Black River of North Carolina Marvelously detailed and deeply passionate, In Search of the Old Ones will transform your perspective of the trees and forests around you.

Author : David Roberts
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393241890
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost World of the Old Ones: Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest written by David Roberts and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants. In this thrilling story of intellectual and archaeological discovery, David Roberts recounts his last twenty years of far-flung exploits in search of spectacular prehistoric ruins and rock art panels known to very few modern travelers. His adventures range across Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado, and illuminate the mysteries of the Ancestral Puebloans and their contemporary neighbors the Mogollon and Fremont, as well as of the more recent Navajo and Comanche.

Author : David Roberts
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781439127230
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of the Old Ones written by David Roberts and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exuberant, hands-on fly-on-the-wall account that combines the thrill of canyoneering and rock climbing with the intellectual sleuthing of archaeology to explore the Anasazi. David Roberts describes the culture of the Anasazi—the name means “enemy ancestors” in Navajo—who once inhabited the Colorado Plateau and whose modern descendants are the Hopi Indians of Arizona. Archaeologists, Roberts writes, have been puzzling over the Anasazi for more than a century, trying to determine the environmental and cultural stresses that caused their society to collapse 700 years ago. He guides us through controversies in the historical record, among them the haunting question of whether the Anasazi committed acts of cannibalism. Roberts’s book is full of up-to-date thinking on the culture of the ancient people who lived in the harsh desert country of the Southwest.

Author : Kevin Siembieda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780916211097
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Ones written by Kevin Siembieda and published by . This book was released on 1996-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huge adventure/sourcebook. Nine pre-made adventures. 34 towns and cities (including 21 forts) mapped and described. Major shops, production centers, temples and notable personalities included with descriptions. Maps and describes all the cities in Palladium's entire Timiro Kingdom. Old Ones are the most powerful forces ever to have existed in the Palladium game "Multi-verse". Palladium's Kevin Siembieda, named them as an hómage to the characters of the same name by H. P. Lovecraft.

Author : Marcus L. Rowland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780933635388
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Old Ones written by Marcus L. Rowland and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Great Old Ones" consists of a set of six scenarios for Call of Cthulhu: "The Spawn" is in the Wild West, with Indians, Wobblies, and bad guys; "Still Waters" is an adventure for people who hate to lend books; "Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?" makes a symbolic stop-over in New Orleans; "One In Darkness" features South Boston hoodlums; "The Pale God" introduces investigators to an unusual contract; "Bad Moon Rising" is an experience to remember. The adventures can be presented in sequence, as a loose campaign; limited cross-references allow the scenarios to stand independently.

Author : David Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780068410782
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of the Old Ones written by David Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mrs. Alfred Phillips
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Benedicta written by Mrs. Alfred Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Dickens
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
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Download or read book All the Year Round written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.Q2/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All the Year Round written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: