Illustrated Sketches of Death Valley and Other Borax Deserts of the Pacificcoast [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Spears, John Randolph

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ISBN 10: 0801865077 ISBN 13: 9780801865077

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 2001

Riassunto

In 1891, New York "Sun" reporter and travel writer J.R. Spears accepted an invitation to visit Death Valley to write about the region and explore its borax mines. Spears, the first professional journalist to visit, photograph and report on the region, provided the American reading public with an engaging and informed account of Death Valley and its surrounding desert country. Through 19 chapters, Spears examines the 20-mule teams used in borax mining, freighting in the rugged desert landscape, and various desert characters - including "Desert Tramps" and a California bear hunter.

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Recensione:

"Not many accounts about late nineteenth-century Death Valley exist, so Illustrated Sketches is an important addition to a small body of literature. Spears's writing is lively, the vignettes personable and appealing, the scenery intriguing." -- Ann Ronald, University of Nevada, Reno

Recensione:

"A book equally as distinguished as it is distinctive; and its substance guarantees as perpetual the sustained interest that pulsates throughout every chapter... No desert collection even merits the name without a copy of the Spears." -- E. I. Edwards, The Enduring Desert

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• Editore: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0801865077
• ISBN 13: 9780801865077
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 244
• Redattore: Steeples Douglas W.