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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100140159940
ISBN-139780140159943
eBay Product ID (ePID)51723
Product Key Features
Book TitleBeyond the Hundredth Meridian : John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
Number of Pages496 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1992
TopicUnited States / 19th Century, Adventurers & Explorers, Expeditions & Discoveries
IllustratorYes
GenreBiography & Autobiography, History
AuthorWallace Stegner
FormatUk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight11.6 Oz
Item Length7.7 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN81-023090
Reviews"This book goes far beyond biography, into the nature and soul of the American West. It is Stegner at his best, assaying an entire era of our history, packing his pages with insights as shrewd as his prose." --Ivan Doig
Dewey Edition19
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Grade ToUP
Dewey Decimal925
Table Of ContentIntroduction by Bernard DeVoto I: The Threshold II: The Plateau Province III: Blueprint for a Dryland Democracy IV: The Revenue of New Discovery V: The Opportunity VI: The Inheritance Notes Index
SynopsisFrom the "dean of Western writers" ( The New York Times ) and the Pulitzer Prize winning-author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety , a fascinating look at the old American West and the man who prophetically warned against the dangers of settling it In Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, Wallace Stegner recounts the sucesses and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. A prophet without honor who had a profound understanding of the American West, Powell warned long ago of the dangers economic exploitation would pose to the West and spent a good deal of his life overcoming Washington politics in getting his message across. Only now, we may recognize just how accurate a prophet he was.
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- 12. Apr. 2016
Good book
well writtenBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 17. Mär. 2017
Good read adventure and history
Good read, adventure and history with an insight into policy and politicsBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
