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Book The Legacy of the  Glacier Priest

Download or read book The Legacy of the Glacier Priest written by Caprice Murray Scarborough and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Adventures with the Glacier Priest

Download or read book Adventures with the Glacier Priest written by Katherine E. Price and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beginning in 1927, California geology professor Rev. Bernard R. Hubbard, S.J. traveled to Alaska to document thirty years of adventurous expeditions. Calling himself the 'Glacier Priest, ' he reached an audience of thousands as an author, lecturer, photographer and filmmaker. In addition to publicizing his adventurer's vision of Alaska, Hubbard left a legacy of nearly 11,000 photographs, fifty short films, and extensive raw footage of Alaskan landscapes, expeditions, and Native people. Published material on Hubbard's background and career is limited. This thesis investigates his Alaskan publicity career from 1927 to 1941 from archival sources, contemporary articles, and Hubbard's own books and films. It places him in the context of American Catholicism, exploration mythology, and the media practices of his time. It concludes that, while Hubbard viewed Alaska through several filters--geology, religion, and popular exploration--it was his own persona of the 'Glacier Priest' which was central to his Alaska vision"--Leaf iii.

Book The Mind and the Vision of  the Glacier Priest

Download or read book The Mind and the Vision of the Glacier Priest written by Caprice Murray Scarborough and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Developing Mission

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph W. Ho
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2022-01-15
  • ISBN : 1501760955
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Developing Mission written by Joseph W. Ho and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Developing Mission, Joseph W. Ho offers a transnational cultural history of US and Chinese communities framed by missionary lenses through time and space—tracing the lives and afterlives of images, cameras, and visual imaginations from before the Second Sino-Japanese War through the first years of the People's Republic of China. When American Protestant and Catholic missionaries entered interwar China, they did so with cameras in hand. Missions principally aimed at the conversion of souls and the modernization of East Asia, became, by virtue of the still and moving images recorded, quasi-anthropological ventures that shaped popular understandings of and formal foreign policy toward China. Portable photographic technologies changed the very nature of missionary experience, while images that missionaries circulated between China and the United States affected cross-cultural encounters in times of peace and war. Ho illuminates the centrality of visual practices in the American missionary enterprise in modern China, even as intersecting modernities and changing Sino-US relations radically transformed lives behind and in front of those lenses. In doing so, Developing Mission reconstructs the almost-lost histories of transnational image makers, subjects, and viewers across twentieth-century China and the United States.

Book Beyond the Moon Crater Myth

Download or read book Beyond the Moon Crater Myth written by Katherine Johnson Ringsmuth and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire

Download or read book John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire written by Kim Heacox and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dual biography of two of the most compelling elements in the narrative of wild America, John Muir and Alaska. John Muir was a fascinating man who was many things: inventor, scientist, revolutionary, druid (a modern day Celtic priest), husband, son, father and friend, and a shining son of the Scottish Enlightenment -- both in temperament and intellect. Kim Heacox, author of The Only Kayak, bring us a story that evolves as Muir’s life did, from one of outdoor adventure into one of ecological guardianship---Muir went from impassioned author to leading activist. The book is not just an engaging and dramatic profile of Muir, but an expose on glaciers, and their importance in the world today. Muir shows us how one person changed America, helped it embrace its wilderness, and in turn, gave us a better world. December 2014 will mark the 100th anniversary of Muir’s death. Muir died of a broken heart, some say, when Congress voted to approve the building of Hetch Hetchy Dam in Yosemite National Park. Perhaps in the greatest piece of environmental symbolism in the U.S. in a long time, on the California ballot this November is a measure to dismantle the Hetch Hetchy Dam. Muir’s legacy is that he reordered our priorities and contributed to a new scientific revolution that was picked up a generation later by Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson, and is championed today by influential writers like E.O. Wilson and Jared Diamond. Heacox will take us into how Muir changed our world, advanced the science of glaciology and popularized geology. How he got people out there. How he gave America a new vision of Alaska, and of itself.

Book Telling the Santa Clara Story

Download or read book Telling the Santa Clara Story written by Russell K. Skowronek and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of the National Association of Colored Women   S Clubs  Inc

Download or read book The History of the National Association of Colored Women S Clubs Inc written by LaVonne Leslie and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of the National Association of Colored Womens Clubs, Inc., Edited by LaVonne Jackson Leslie With a new introduction by the editor In highlighting the history of the oldest black womens organization in the United States, The History of the National Association of Colored Womens Clubs, Inc., written by scholar Dr. Charles Wesley, provides a comprehensive insight into the historical achievements and activities of the organization from its creation to 1984. The book offers an interesting history of how the organization evolved and functioned nationwide into one of the most respectable black organization. It is highly recommended for readers interested in understanding the role of black women in uplifting the black community through community service involvement with programs focusing on childcare, education, and social services. The clubwomen established local, state, and regional chapters nationwide. The History of the National Association of Colored Womens Clubs, Inc., utilizes the organizations conference reports, minutes, and National Notespublication, as primary sources to depict how the clubs carried out their goals and operated in society to make a difference. The voices of the pioneer women in the National Association of Colored Womens Clubs, Inc., can be envisioned by reading this pivotal work. Their achievements are noteworthy in our history. They have inspired women in the organization to continue to be involved in carrying out its mission by upholding its motto, lifting as we climb. This book prepares the foundation for the next edition focusing on the history of the organization to the present.

Book The Patton Papers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martin Blumenson
  • Publisher : Da Capo Press
  • Release : 2009-07-21
  • ISBN : 0786749741
  • Pages : 942 pages

Download or read book The Patton Papers written by Martin Blumenson and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of World War II's most brilliant and controversial generals, George S. Patton (1885-1945) fought in North Africa and Sicily, as commander of the Third Army, spearheaded the Allies' spectacular 1944-1945 sweep through France, Belgium, and Germany. Martin Blumenson is the only historian to enjoy unlimited access to the vast Patton papers. his many books include Masters of the Art of Command (available from Da Capo Press) and Patton: The Man Behind the Legend.

Book Waterton and Glacier in a Snap

Download or read book Waterton and Glacier in a Snap written by Ray Djuff and published by Rocky Mountain Books Ltd. This book was released on 2005 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out who made the parks' famous red buses. Discover why so many geographical features are named for people who either never visited the parks or only stopped by once. Put your finger on the number of plant, animal, fish and insect species in the park. Learn the lore of such landmarks as Chief Mountain. Laugh out loud at crazy ideas and silly events that have taken place. Happenings, history, statistics, special visitors and animal stories -- find them all in a snap in this book about the world's first international peace park.

Book Legacy

Download or read book Legacy written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chambers s Journal of Popular Literature  Science and Arts

Download or read book Chambers s Journal of Popular Literature Science and Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life at Extremes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elanor Bell
  • Publisher : CABI
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 1845938143
  • Pages : 576 pages

Download or read book Life at Extremes written by Elanor Bell and published by CABI. This book was released on 2012 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From arid deserts to icy poles, outer space to the depths of the sea, this exciting new work studies the remarkable life forms that have made these inhospitable environments their home. Covering not only micro-organisms, but also higher plants and animals such as worms, fish and polar plants, this book details the ecological, biological and biogeochemical challenges these organisms face and unifying themes between environments. Equally useful for the expert, student and casual scientific reader, this book also explores the impact of climate change, rapid seasonal changes and pollution on these extraordinary creatures.

Book Chamber s Journal of Popular Literature  Science and Arts

Download or read book Chamber s Journal of Popular Literature Science and Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Contemporary Destination Governance

Download or read book Contemporary Destination Governance written by Harald Pechlaner and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book approaches the issue of contemporary destination governance from a case study point of view. 16 destinations from across Europe, Australia and Canada are presented in detail and an overview of their respective historical developments, their resource endowments and market positions as well as their stakeholder structure is given.

Book Aleuts

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roza G. Lyapunova
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-08-15
  • ISBN : 9780996583718
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Aleuts written by Roza G. Lyapunova and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation from Russian