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Book The Pacific Crest Trail

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
  • Release : 2019-04-16
  • ISBN : 0847864510
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book The Pacific Crest Trail written by and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pocket-sized gift and souvenir photo book captures the beauty of America's quintessential wilderness hiking trail. From desert California to the Washington-Canada border, the compelling photography of Bart Smith brings the entire 2,650-mile trail to life. This beautifully illustrated book, officially published with the Pacific Crest Trail Association in a pocket-sized gift and souvenir format, highlights this legendary footpath with more than 170 spectacular contemporary images taken by the foremost hiking photographer in America. Readers can experience the trail as if their boots were on the path--passing by the trail blazes, taking in the surrounding wilderness at scenic overlooks, meeting other hikers at lean-tos or shelters, and freezing at the sight of bear, elk, or other majestic wildlife. Designated as one of the first two national scenic trails in 1968, the Pacific Crest Trail is a continuous footpath of more than 2,650 miles--from the Mexican to the Canadian border. It is often called the "wilderness trail" because roughly half of it runs through federal wilderness--25 national forests, six national parks, five state parks, three national monuments, and 48 federal wilderness areas. The trail symbolizes everything there is to love--and protect--in the western United States. This book is perfect for anyone interested in conservation, outdoor recreation, or American history, or for those who dream of one day becoming thru-hikers themselves.

Book The Wilderness of the North Pacific Coast Islands

Download or read book The Wilderness of the North Pacific Coast Islands written by Charles Sheldon and published by New York : C. Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 1912 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beneath Cold Seas

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  • Author : David Hall
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-03-09
  • ISBN : 9780295994888
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Beneath Cold Seas written by David Hall and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in hardcover in 2011 by Greystone Books Ltd.

Book Pacific Wilderness

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  • Author : David Hancock
  • Publisher : Saanichton, B.C. : Hancock House
  • Release : 1974
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 112 pages

Download or read book Pacific Wilderness written by David Hancock and published by Saanichton, B.C. : Hancock House. This book was released on 1974 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the pacific wilderness.

Book Pacific Wilderness

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  • Author : Janis A Kraulis
  • Publisher : Popular Culture Ink
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 9780831767167
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book Pacific Wilderness written by Janis A Kraulis and published by Popular Culture Ink. This book was released on 1989 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Drawing Lines in the Forest

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  • Author : Kevin R. Marsh
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2009-11-23
  • ISBN : 0295989866
  • Pages : 263 pages

Download or read book Drawing Lines in the Forest written by Kevin R. Marsh and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing boundaries around wilderness areas often serves a double purpose: protection of the land within the boundary and release of the land outside the boundary to resource extraction and other development. In Drawing Lines in the Forest, Kevin R. Marsh discusses the roles played by various groups—the Forest Service, the timber industry, recreationists, and environmentalists—in arriving at these boundaries. He shows that pragmatic, rather than ideological, goals were often paramount, with all sides benefiting. After World War II, representatives of both logging and recreation use sought to draw boundaries that would serve to guarantee access to specific areas of public lands. The logging industry wanted to secure a guaranteed supply of timber, as an era of stewardship of the nation's public forests gave way to an emphasis on rapid extraction of timber resources. This spawned a grassroots preservationist movement that ultimately challenged the managerial power of the Forest Service. The Wilderness Act of 1964 provided an opportunity for groups on all sides to participate openly and effectively in the political process of defining wilderness boundaries. The often contentious debates over the creation of wilderness areas in the Cascade Mountains in Oregon and Washington represent the most significant stages in the national history of wilderness conservation since World War II: Three Sisters, North Cascades and Glacier Peak, Mount Jefferson, Alpine Lakes, French Pete, and the state-wide wilderness acts of 1984.

Book My Wilderness

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  • Author : William O. Douglas
  • Publisher : Comstock Book Distributors
  • Release : 1989-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780891740544
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book My Wilderness written by William O. Douglas and published by Comstock Book Distributors. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Managing Wilderness Regions

Download or read book Managing Wilderness Regions written by Ian Flintoff and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1998 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource file offers extension and support tasks for Edexcel B geography. Extended research ideas help with fieldwork and investigation, and sample questions and mark schemes provide practice for exams. There are planning tools for teachers and additional case study materials and map outlines.

Book My Wilderness  the Pacific West

Download or read book My Wilderness the Pacific West written by William Orville Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justice Douglas writes of the Sierras, the Olympics, the Rain Forest of the Cascades, and other wild and beautiful western mountains and forests.

Book Pacific Crest Trail Data Book

Download or read book Pacific Crest Trail Data Book written by and published by . This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find trail information quickly in this practical companion to the PCT guidebooks. Organized by landmarks along the way from Mexico to Canada, the book shows mileage between points, mileage from the Mexican border, elevation, and facilities, including water sources, showers, groceries, lodging, and post offices.

Book Journeys North

Download or read book Journeys North written by Barney Scout Mann and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist in Adventure Travel In Journeys North, legendary trail angel, thru hiker, and former PCTA board member Barney Scout Mann spins a compelling tale of six hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail in 2007 as they walk from Mexico to Canada. This ensemble story unfolds as these half-dozen hikers--including Barney and his wife, Sandy--trod north, slowly forming relationships and revealing their deepest secrets and aspirations. They face a once-in-a-generation drought and early severe winter storms that test their will in this bare-knuckled adventure. In fact, only a third of all the hikers who set out on the trail that year would finish. As the group approaches Canada, a storm rages. How will these very different hikers, ranging in age, gender, and background, respond to the hardship and suffering ahead of them? Can they all make the final 60-mile push through freezing temperatures, sleet, and snow, or will some reach their breaking point? Journeys North is a story of grit, compassion, and the relationships people forge when they strive toward a common goal.

Book Global Local

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  • Author : Rob Wilson
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 1996-05-27
  • ISBN : 0822381990
  • Pages : 410 pages

Download or read book Global Local written by Rob Wilson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1996-05-27 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking collection focuses on what may be, for cultural studies, the most intriguing aspect of contemporary globalization—the ways in which the postnational restructuring of the world in an era of transnational capitalism has altered how we must think about cultural production. Mapping a "new world space" that is simultaneously more globalized and localized than before, these essays examine the dynamic between the movement of capital, images, and technologies without regard to national borders and the tendency toward fragmentation of the world into increasingly contentious enclaves of difference, ethnicity, and resistance. Ranging across issues involving film, literature, and theory, as well as history, politics, economics, sociology, and anthropology, these deeply interdisciplinary essays explore the interwoven forces of globalism and localism in a variety of cultural settings, with a particular emphasis on the Asia-Pacific region. Powerful readings of the new image culture, transnational film genre, and the politics of spectacle are offered as is a critique of globalization as the latest guise of colonization. Articles that unravel the complex links between the global and local in terms of the unfolding narrative of capital are joined by work that illuminates phenomena as diverse as "yellow cab" interracial sex in Japan, machinic desire in Robocop movies, and the Pacific Rim city. An interview with Fredric Jameson by Paik Nak-Chung on globalization and Pacific Rim responses is also featured, as is a critical afterword by Paul Bové. Positioned at the crossroads of an altered global terrain, this volume, the first of its kind, analyzes the evolving transnational imaginary—the full scope of contemporary cultural production by which national identities of political allegiance and economic regulation are being undone, and in which imagined communities are being reshaped at both the global and local levels of everyday existence.

Book Wilderness

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  • Author : Lance Weller
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2012-01-01
  • ISBN : 1408829207
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Wilderness written by Lance Weller and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years ago, Abel Truman found himself on the wrong side in the Battle of the Wilderness, one of the bloodiest clashes of the American Civil War. Its aftermath took him to the edge of the continent, the rugged coast of Washington State, where he has made his home in a driftwood shack with his beloved dog, waiting for the scars of war to heal.Now an old and ailing man, Abel must make one heroic final journey over the snowbound Olympic Mountains. It's a quest he has little hope of completing but must still undertake to settle matters of the heart that predate even the horrors of the war. But as Abel sets out, violence follows him in the shape of the memories of those he has lost, and the savagery he took part in and witnessed, as well as two men who are darkly tenacious in their pursuit.Hypatia is a slave whose freedom comes at a terrible price, and who finds herself walking unwittingly into the hellish heart of the Wilderness. Ellen is a white woman, married to a black man at a time that is as dangerous as it is unforgiving. And Jane is a young Chinese girl, who is newly, cruelly orphaned, and clinging on to life. Abel's tortured and ultimately redemptive path leads him to each of them as he encounters compassion amid brutality and tenderness within loss.

Book Handbook

Download or read book Handbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Desolation Wilderness

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  • Author : Jeffrey Schaffer
  • Publisher : Wilderness Press
  • Release : 2010-05-10
  • ISBN : 0899975674
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book Desolation Wilderness written by Jeffrey Schaffer and published by Wilderness Press. This book was released on 2010-05-10 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most comprehensive guidebook to Lake Tahoe's finest hiking area. It offers you: 32 accurately described hiking trips in four areas: Desolation Wilderness, Lake Tahoe's Emerald Bay, South Fork American River (trails south of Highway 50), and Upper Truckee River (trails north of Highway 88 and west of Highway 89).

Book Wilderness Users in the Pacific Northwest

Download or read book Wilderness Users in the Pacific Northwest written by John C. Hendee and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pacific Crest Trail

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  • Author : Joshua M. Powell
  • Publisher : Sasquatch Books
  • Release : 2021-03-16
  • ISBN : 1632173298
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book The Pacific Crest Trail written by Joshua M. Powell and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pacific Crest Trail as you've never seen it before! A visual feast for the senses, this highly designed paperback showcases the PCT through clever infographics, modern illustration, and insightful text. The book captures both the grandeur of the West Coast as well as the tiniest things that a thru-hiker notices and experiences during a 140-day trek. Through the written word, graphic design, and illustration, The Pacific Crest Trail: A Visual Compendium conveys the beauty and the beastliness of a 2,650-mile wilderness hike from Mexico to Canada. The author chronicles the PCT through infographics about the trail and the thru-hikers' experience, and includes arresting illustrations of the landscape and minutiae of the trail. Everything from trail markers, weather challenges, and the stories behind popular toponyms to the songs stuck in a hiker's head, thru-hiker trail names, and food consumed will be addressed, making this an ideal gift for any outdoor enthusiast.