9780743260251 - the explorer king: adventure, science, and the great diamond hoax -- a true tale of the old west: adventure, science, and the great diamond hoax--clarence king in the old west di wilson, robert (23 risultati)
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Editore: Scribner (2006) New York, 2006
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Hardcover. Condizione: New. ** First Edition ** New inside and Out! Clean & Crisp Pages w/No markings. Excellent book.(Fast Shipping).
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Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 303 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.
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hardcover. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.
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Da: Edmonton Book Store, Edmonton, AB, CanadaEdmonton Book Store
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Condizione: very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. 8vo pp.303, signed by the author on title page. SIgned by Author. book.
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Da: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.Ground Zero Books, Ltd.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. xiv, 302, [4] pages. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Signed by the author on the title page. Some page discoloration noted. Robert Wilson has been an award-winning editor at Preservation, Civilization, and The American Sch…olar, which he has edited since 2004. He writes often for magazines and newspapers and was on staff at USA Today and The Washington Post. The author of biographies of Mathew Brady, Clarence King, and P.T. Barnum, he lives in Manassas, Virginia. Clarence Rivers King (January 6, 1842 December 24, 1901) was an American geologist, mountaineer, and author. He was the first director of the United States Geological Survey from 1879 to 1881. Nominated by President Rutherford B. Hayes, King was noted for his exploration of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. King and his team explored areas from eastern California to Wyoming. During that time he published his famous Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada (1872). While King was finishing the Fortieth Parallel Survey, the western U.S. was abuzz with news of a secret diamond deposit. King and some of his crew tracked down the location in northwest Colorado and exposed it as a fraud, now known as the diamond hoax of 1872. In 1879, the US Congress consolidated the number of geological surveys exploring the American West and created the United States Geological Survey. King was chosen as its first director. He took the position with the understanding that it would be temporary and he resigned after twenty months, having overseen the organization of the new agency with an emphasis on mining geology. In this, one of the year's most compelling biographies, Robert Wilson paints a brilliant portrait of Clarence King -- a scientist-explorer whose mountain-scaling, desert-crossing, river-fording, blizzard-surviving adventures helped create the new West of the nineteenth century. A sort of Howard Hughes of the 1800s, Clarence King in his youth was an icon of the new America: a man of both action and intellect, who combined science and adventure with romanticism and charm. The Explorer King vividly depicts King's amazing feats and also uncovers the reasons for the shocking decline he suffered after his days on the American frontier. The Yale-educated King went west in 1863 at age twenty-one as a geologist-explorer. During the next decade he scaled the highest peaks of the Sierra Nevada, published a popular book now considered a classic of adventure literature, initiated a groundbreaking land survey of the American West, and ultimately uncovered one of the greatest frauds of the century -- the Great Diamond Hoax, a discovery that made him an international celebrity at a time when they were few and far between. Through King's own rollicking tales, some true, some embroidered, of scaling previously unclimbed mountain peaks, of surviving a monster blizzard near Yosemite, of escaping ambush and capture by Indians, of being chased on horseback for two days by angry bandits, Robert Wilson offers a powerful combination of adventure, history, and nature writing. He also provides the bigger picture of the West at this time, showing the ways in which the terrain of the western United States was measured and charted and mastered, and how science, politics, and business began to intersect and influence one another during this era. Ultimately, King himself would come to symbolize the collision of science and business, possibly the source of his downfall. Fascinating and extensive, The Explorer King movingly portrays the America of the nineteenth century and the man who -- for better or worse -- typified the soul of the era. Doug Stern (Maps), Maggie Gamboa (Author photograp (illustratore).
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Da: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.Dan Pope Books
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Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. New York: Scribner [2006]. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. New/New. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. A perfect unread copy, opened only for the author to sign. Comes with archival-quality, acid-free dust jacket protector at no extra cost. A pristine… signed copy! Shipped in sturdy box with bubble wrap. Wilson, editor of the American Scholar, writes a colorful biography of the 19th-century explorer-scientist Clarence King, he leader of extensive geological surveys of the West. Signed by Author(s).
