Download or read book Woodland written by John Bierlein and published by Historylink / Woodland Park Zoo. This book was released on 2017 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the history of Woodland Park Zoo from its nineteenth-century beginnings as a park originally carved from the wilderness north of downtown Seattle to promote a nearby real estate development. As Seattle grew, its zoo engendered civic pride and the animals in its growing collection became local personalities. By the 1970s, the zoo emerged as an international pioneer in zoo design. Lavishly illustrated, Woodland provides a narrative of changing ideas about the relationship between humans and animals, and a fond look at the zoo's animals and the people who care for them.
Download or read book Growing Up Gorilla written by Clare Hodgson Meeker and published by Millbrook Press (Tm). This book was released on 2020 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This heartwarming true story chronicles what happened after a mother gorilla gave birth for the first time and then walked away from her newborn baby at Seattle's Woodland Park. The dedicated staff worked tirelessly to find innovative ways for mother and baby to build a relationship. The efforts were ultimately successful, as baby Yola bonded with her mother and the rest of the family group."--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Discovering Seattle Parks written by Linnea Westerlind and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linnea Westerlind has visited each of Seattle’s 426 city parks, an effort which she documented on her blog, YearofSeattleParks.com—making her the absolutely perfect person to guide you to just the right park for your picnic, an outing with the kids, family reunion, or simply a fun new place to explore. Discovering Seattle’s Parks is based on Westerlind’s blog, but for this new guidebook she has revisited and further researched every single park she describes, and now includes even more detailed information and descriptions. Organized by neighborhood, such as Downtown, Queen Anne, or Northeast Seattle, the guide features full-color photos throughout and simple, illustrated maps for the largest parks with more complex trail systems. Each park’s listing includes: • Icons for key features—playgrounds, viewpoints, waterfront spots, hidden parks, and dog parks • Public transportation and parking directions • Details on the park’s history • Highlights such as public art, water features, cycling paths, and more • Color photographs that capture the park’s essence Discovering Seattle’s Parks will keep families, walkers, dog-lovers, and kids of all ages busy with year-round exploration and fun!
Download or read book The Rise of the American Conservation Movement written by Dorceta E. Taylor and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multifaceted U.S. conservation movement from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. She shows how race, class, and gender influenced every aspect of the movement, including the establishment of parks; campaigns to protect wild game, birds, and fish; forest conservation; outdoor recreation; and the movement's links to nineteenth-century ideologies. Initially led by white urban elites—whose early efforts discriminated against the lower class and were often tied up with slavery and the appropriation of Native lands—the movement benefited from contributions to policy making, knowledge about the environment, and activism by the poor and working class, people of color, women, and Native Americans. Far-ranging and nuanced, The Rise of the American Conservation Movement comprehensively documents the movement's competing motivations, conflicts, problematic practices, and achievements in new ways.
Download or read book Insight Guides Seattle City Guide written by Insight Guides and published by Apa Publications (UK) Limited. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insight City Guide Seattle is a comprehensive travel guide to this innovative and scenic city. Full-colour photos and maps throughout combine with authoritative text to inspire you to explore Seattle and its surrounding areas. Be inspired by the "Best Of Seattle" section, which highlights unmissable sights and experiences, while a comprehensive Travel Tips section gives you all the practical information and travel advice you need to plan what to do on your trip, including selective listings for hotel and restaurants. Lavish Photo Features offer a unique insight into topics such as northwestern Native American tribes, the EMP Museum and local volcanoes. Insight's trademark history and culture coverage provides a fascinating introduction to Seattle's enterprising and alternative culture, while features by local writers delve into everything from Bill Gates and Microsoft to writers' interest in the famous rain, local wines and totem poles. Nine Places chapters cover the city, from the National Historic District of Pioneer Square and the International District to the diverse neighborhoods of Ballard and Capitol Hill, while three further excursions chapters suggest trips to across Puget Sound, around the Olympic Peninsula and out to the San Juan Islands and Cascade Mountains.
Download or read book Insiders Guide to Seattle written by Shelley Seale and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first edition, Insiders' Guide to Seattle is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to this thriving city in the Pacific Northwest. Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of Seattle and its surrounding environs.
Download or read book The Garden Lover s Guide to the West written by Kathleen McCormick and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Garden Lover's Guide series has been hailed by Garden Design as "eminently practical" and by Home as "authoritative" and "indispensible." These three new volumes complete our survey of American gardens; together, the four books feature over 500 public gardens across the country.Each book is designed for readers to use as they travel through a state or region. Similar to our highly successful European garden guides, the U. S. guides are illustrated in full color with numerous photographic images and watercolor drawings of the most significant gardens, all specially commissioned for these books. In addition to insightful texts, contact data, opening hours, admission fees, and directions are provided. The perfect companion for any garden enthusiast, whether tourist or armchair traveler.
Download or read book America s Best Zoos written by Allen W. Nyhuis and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of some of America's finest zoological parks, discussing exhibits, activities for children, and information about hours, admission and fees, and zoo touring tips.
Download or read book Animals Go Vroom written by Abi Cushman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a nod to Richard Scarry, this inventive picture book surprises readers with every turn of the page! Hiss! Screech! Roar! It's a noisy day in Bumperville! But are the sounds what you think they are? That Honk! must surely be a goose. But turn the page and it's the taxi that a goose is driving! Using cleverly placed die-cuts, this inventive book hints at what is making the sound, but with each turn of the page, it's an eye-opening surprise and part of an unfolding story that is part guessing game and part giggle-inducing caper. Abi Cushman is the master of surprise and silliness in this absolutely delightful picture book.
Download or read book A Field Guide to Seattle s Public Art written by Seattle Arts Commission (1971-2002) and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book brings you five self-guided walking and driving tours which highlight 41 of Seattle's most popular public art projects. Included are maps and photographs to accompany each tour, along with essays by well-known writers, artists and historians who offer insight to the development and role of public art in Seattle." -- Amazon.com viewed August 14, 2020.
Download or read book Insight Guides City Guide Seattle Travel Guide eBook written by Insight Guides and published by Rough Guides UK. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All you need to inspire every step of your trip. An in-depth book, now with free app and eBook. From deciding when to go, to choosing what to see when youarrive, this Insight Guides book is allyou need to plan your trip and experience the best of Seattle, with in-depthinsider information on must-see, top attractions like the Space Needle, and hiddencultural gems like Seattle Central Library. · City GuideSeattle is ideal for travellers seeking immersive cultural experiences, fromexploring Pioneer Square to discovering Seattle Art Museum · In-depth onhistory and culture: enjoy special features on Washington wines and totem poles,all written by local experts · Includes innovative extras that are unique in the market - all CityGuides come with a free eBook and app that's regularly updated with new hotel,bar, restaurant, shop and local event listings · Invaluablemaps, travel tips and practical information ensure effortless planning · Outstandingorientation information will save you time while you explore · ExcellentEditor's Choice recommendations will make your trip more memorable · Inspirationalcolour photography throughout · Inventive design makesfor an engaging reading experience About Insight Guides: Insight Guides is a pioneer offull-colour guide books, with almost 50 years' experience of publishinghigh-quality, visual travel guides with user-friendly, modern design. Weproduce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps, as well as phrasebooks, picture-packed eBooks and apps to meet different travellers' needs.Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus onhistory and culture create a unique visual reference and planning tool toinspire your next adventure.
Download or read book Animal Architects written by Amy Cherrix and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Did you know the natural world is a construction zone? Amazing animals all over the world are building all kinds of structures every single day. This fascinating, fact-filled book will captivate young scientists and naturalists and have them looking out for animal construction projects happening in their own backyards!"--
Download or read book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Pacific Northwest written by Anita Carmin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in PDF format. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Pacific Northwest will lead you straight to the best attractions the northwest coast of the USA has to offer. Fully illustrated, it covers all the major cities, from Portland, Oregon, to Seattle, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia, and provides all the insider tips you need, whether you're kayaking on Lake Ozette in Olympic National Park or hitting the shops in downtown Seattle's Columbia Centre. Plus, this guidebook is packed with comprehensive listings of the best hotels, restaurants, shops, and nightlife in each area for all budgets. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Pacific Northwest explores the region's culture, history, architecture, tours, beaches, and scenic walks. You'll find 3-D illustrated cutaways and floor plans of all the must-see sights, as well as street maps and reliable information for getting around. With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that brighten every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Pacific Northwest truly shows you this region as no one else can.
Download or read book Animal Attractions written by Elizabeth Hanson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a rainy day in May 1988, a lowland gorilla named Willie B. stepped outdoors for the first time in twenty-seven years, into a new landscape immersion exhibit. Born in Africa, Willie B. had been captured by an animal collector and sold to a zoo. During the decades he spent in a cage, zoos stopped collecting animals from the wild and Americans changed the ways they wished to view animals in the zoo. Zoos developed new displays to simulate landscapes like the Amazon River basin and African forests. Exhibits similar to animals' natural habitats began to replace old-fashioned animal houses. But such displays are only the most recent effort of zoos to present their audiences with an authentic experience of nature. Since the first zoological park opened in the United States in Philadelphia in 1874, zoos have promised their visitors a journey into the natural world. And for more than a century they have been popular places for education and recreation: every year more than 130 million Americans go to zoos to look at the animals and enjoy a day outdoors. The first book-length history of American zoos, Animal Attractions examines the meaning of nature in the city by looking at the ways zoos have assembled and displayed their animal collections. Situated literally and culturally in the American middle landscape, zoos are concrete expressions of longstanding tensions between wildness and civilization, science and popular culture, education and entertainment. In their efforts to promote nature appreciation, they reveal much about how our culture envisions the natural world and the human place in it and how these ideas have changed.
Download or read book Quest for the Tree Kangaroo written by Sy Montgomery and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Geocaching 2nd Edition written by The Editors & Staff of Geocaching Com and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate global game revealed! The Complete Idiot[s Guide to Geocaching, Second Edition is a comprehensive, yet entertaining and easy-to-understand book for getting started and having fun with geocaching[the high-tech version of hide-and-seek for global positioning system (GPS) users. In this edition, two new tools of the game[Waymarking and Wherigo[are included. [[ The Geocaching website, which began operating in 2000 and is owned by Groundspeak, Inc., is the first and currently the largest website devoted to Geocaching [[ Today, well over 800,000 geocaches are registered on various websites devoted to the pastime [[ Geocaches are currently placed in over 100 countries around the world and on all seven continents, including Antarctica
Download or read book Fodor s Seattle 25 Best written by Fodor's Travel Guides and published by Fodor's. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous edition published under the title Fodor's Seattle's 25 best, 2008.
