Download or read book Nathan C Clark Sierra Club Leader Outdoorsman Engineer written by Nathan C. Clark and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sierra Club Leader Outdoorsman Engineer written by Nathan C. Clark and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clark discusses his childhood and youth, outdoor outings with his father, engineering and the out-of-doors at the University of California, Berkeley, and joining the Sierra Club in 1929. He continues with club activities and associates in the 1930s, his Sentinal Dome wedding (Yosemite, 1944), the club's internal affairs, conservation campaigns, and reminiscences of Southern California Sierrans.
Download or read book Nature s Altars written by Susan R. Schrepfer and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2005-05-02 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the ancient Appalachians to the high Sierra, mountains have always symbolized wilderness for Americans. Susan Schrepfer unfolds the history of our fascination with high peaks and rugged terrain to tell how mountains have played a dramatic role in shaping American ideas about wilderness and its regulation. Delving into memoirs and histories, letters and diaries, early photos and old maps, Schrepfer especially compares male and female mountaineering narratives to show the ways in which gender affected what men and women found to value in rocky heights, and how their different perceptions together defined the wilderness preservation movement for the nation. The Sierra Club in particular popularized the mystique of America's mountains, and Schrepfer uses its history to develop a sweeping interpretation of twentieth-century wilderness perceptions and national conservation politics. Schrepfer follows men like John Muir, Wilderness Society cofounder Robert Marshall, and the Sierra Club's own David Brower into the mountains-and finds them frequently in the company of women. She tells how mountaineering women shaped their lives through high adventure well before the twentieth century, participating in Appalachian mountain clubs and joining men as "Mazamas"—mountain goats—scaling Oregon's Mount Hood. From these expeditions, Schrepfer examines how women's ideas, language, and activism helped shape American environmentalism just as much as men's, parsing the "Romantic sublime" into its respective masculine and feminine components. Tracing this history to the 1964 Wilderness Act, she also shows how the feminine sublimes continue to flourish in the form of ecofeminism and in exploits like the all-woman climb of Annapurna in 1978. By explaining why both women and men risked their lives in these landscapes, how they perceived them, and why they wanted to save them, Schrepfer also reveals the ways in which religion, social class, ethnicity, and nationality shaped the experience of the natural world. Full of engaging stories that shed new light on a history many believe they already know, her book adds subtlety and nuance to the oft-told annals of the wild and gives readers a new perspective on the wilderness movement and mountaineering.
Download or read book Sierra Club Executive Director written by John Michael McCloskey and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book David R Brower Environmental Activist Publicist and Prophet written by David Brower and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pilgrims of the Vertical written by Joseph E. Taylor III and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few things suggest rugged individualism as powerfully as the solitary mountaineer testing his or her mettle in the rough country. Yet the long history of wilderness sport complicates this image. In this surprising story of the premier rock-climbing venue in the United States, Pilgrims of the Vertical offers insight into the nature of wilderness adventure. From the founding era of mountain climbing in Victorian Europe to present-day climbing gyms, Pilgrims of the Vertical shows how ever-changing alignments of nature, technology, gender, sport, and consumer culture have shaped climbers’ relations to nature and to each other. Even in Yosemite Valley, a premier site for sporting and environmental culture since the 1800s, elite athletes cannot be entirely disentangled from the many men and women seeking recreation and camaraderie. Following these climbers through time, Joseph Taylor uncovers lessons about the relationship of individuals to groups, sport to society, and nature to culture. He also shows how social and historical contexts influenced adventurers’ choices and experiences, and why some became leading environmental activists—including John Muir, David Brower, and Yvon Chouinard. In a world in which wild nature is increasingly associated with play, and virtuous play with environmental values, Pilgrims of the Vertical explains when and how these ideas developed, and why they became intimately linked to consumerism.
Download or read book Building the Sierra Club s National Lobbying Program 1967 1981 written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Activist Publicist and Prophet written by David Brower and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sierra Club Reminiscences II written by Judy Snyder and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sierra Club Reminiscences written by Ann Lage and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sources in Electrical History written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Southern Sierrans II written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Sierra Club 1892 1970 written by Michael P. Cohen and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1988 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded by conservationist John Muir in 1892, the Sierra Club grew into the nation's largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization. It is devoted to the study and protection of eath's scenic and ecological resources.
Download or read book Guide to Sources in Northern California for History of Science and Technology written by Robin E. Rider and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sources in Electrical History Archives and manuscript collections in U S repositories written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Lobbyist in California s Capital 1965 1984 written by John Zierold and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles his work as the Sierra Club's first state legislative lobbyist, focusing on coastal protection, forest practices legislation, water, energy, and his defense of the 1970 California Environmental Quality Act.
Download or read book California History written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
