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In this classic volume, Peter Matthiessen exquisitely combines nature and travel writing to bring East Africa to vivid life. He skillfully and magically portrays the sights, scenes, and people he observed firsthand in several trips over the course of a dozen years: the daily lives of herdsmen and hunter-gatherers; the drama of the predator kills; the hundreds of exotic animals; the breathtaking landscapes; the area's turbulent natural, political,...
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Sierra Club exhibit format volume 17
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174 pages : color illustrations, folded map. ; 35 cm.
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viii, 20 unnumbered pages, 163 pages : color illustrations, color facsimile, 3 maps (2 color) ; 35 cm
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In 1963 the waters began rising behind Glen Canyon Dam and 170 miles of the Colorado River slowly disappeared. Environmentalists considered it a disaster and mourned Glen Canyon as gone forever. The Sierra Club joined forces with photographer Eliot Porter to document what would be lost under the dam's waters. But in an unexpected victory that speaks to the pervasive disaster of climate change, the reservoir is now declining and the Colorado River...
12) The Grand Canyon
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152 pages : color illustrations, 1 map ; 32 cm
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English
13) The West
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17, approximately 100 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 30 cm
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English
16) Nature's chaos
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125 pages, 1 unnumbered page : color illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm
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English
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