Sutton publishing aug 2023 (3 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Offers a captivating look at forgotten places, telling their stories through powerful photographs and accounts.Abandoned Washington State presents a fascinating glimpse into history, through captivating photographs of places now abandoned. Each photograph has a story behind it, and it is through these thought-provoking stories and first-hand accounts that one can find a human connection to the people that once lived, worked, and in some cases died at the places revealed in this book. The diversity of what has been abandoned in Washington State is truly amazing, from old trucks and steam locomotives consumed by rust to multi-billion-dollar government and military projects. Within these pages, an adventure awaits, for many of the locations explored in Abandoned Washington State are unknown even to life-long residents.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Explores the remnants of Pennsylvania's industrial, recreational, correctional, and educational past, showcasing the erasure of history.Pennsylvania's history is intrinsic to our understanding of America's expansion. As the second state in the nation, much of America's early industrial history can be traced back to Pennsylvania and its two largest cities, Philadelphia and Pittsburg. Not only was the Declaration of Independence signed in Philadelphia in 1776, it was also the capital city of the United States from 1790 to 1800. More than two centuries later, evidence of much of this history is slowly being erased from our present-day landscape. For the armchair urban explorer and history buff alike, Abandoned Pennsylvania: Industry and Endings takes a journey through Pennsylvania's industrial, recreational, correctional, and educational past. Scranton Lace Factory, the anchor of a small industrial town, and the irreplaceable Inn at Buck Hill Falls were once bustling cogs in a growing state's fortunes; a fireplace and a clock tower are all that remain to remind us of their existence. Of other buildings, such as the Transfiguration of Our Lord Church and Thomas Edison High School, nothing remains. In their place is an athletic field, a Save-A-Lot store, and a parking lot. Industry and Endings illuminates the regrettable fact that our hunger for progress is outstripping our respect for the past.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Calls for action to clean the river, highlighting its industrial history and pollution challenges while offering a path to recovery.Reclaiming the Merrimack is a call-to-action book that outlines the history of the beloved river and reveals that the time is now to make it cleaner. The Merrimack is the site of the start of the Industrial Revolution, but commercial garbage and municipal effluent have gone into the river for decades. Yet more than 600,000 residents still get their drinking water from this waterway, so it is imperative to reduce the pollution. Author-journalist Dyke Hendrickson provides a path to improvement. Billions of federal dollars are now available through the infrastructure plan by the Biden Administration to improve sewage-treatment plants and drinking-water facilities. 'This is the best time to clean rivers and lakes since the passage of the Clean Water Act of 1972,' says Hendrickson, an award-winning writer who is the author of seven other books. Readers will learn how local governments can access clean-up money--and how much better the river will be when it is fully clean.…