Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West - Softcover

Stegner, Wallace

 
9780140159943: Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0140159940 ISBN 13: 9780140159943
Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

From 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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Wallace Stegner (1909–1993) published more than two dozen books throughout his life, including the novels Angle of Repose, which won the Pulitzer Prize; Crossing to Safety; The Big Rock Candy Mountain; and The Spectator Bird, which won the National Book Award. An early environmentalist, Stegner was instrumental—with his now famous “Wilderness Letter”—in the passage of the 1964 Wilderness Act. 

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Verlag
Penguin Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum
1992
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0140159940
ISBN 13 
9780140159943
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
496
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