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  • Desierto

    Memories of the Future

    par Charles Bowden ...
    The acclaimed author of Blue Desert explores life on the arid borderlands of southern Arizona in this "compelling and wonderfully poetic" essay collection (Ron Hansen, New York Times Book Review).In Desierto, Charles Bowden brings his signature eye for vivid detail and penetrating insight to the Sonoran Desert. Travelling across this unforgiving terrain, he explores struggling desert villages, ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Last Unicorn

    A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures

    par William deBuys ...
    An award-winning author's quest to find and understand a creature as rare and enigmatic as any on Earth.In 1992, in a remote mountain range, a team of scientists discovered the remains of an unusual animal with exquisite long horns. It turned out to be a living species new to Western science -- a saola, the first large land mammal discovered in fifty years.Rare then and rarer now, a live saola had ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD

  • Salt Dreams

    Land & Water in Low-Down California

    – The 1999 Western States Book Award for Creative Non-Fiction – The 1999 Clements Prize for the Best Non-Fiction Book on Southwestern America – The 2000 Norris and Carol Hundley Award from the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association In low places consequences collect, and in all North America you cannot get much lower than the Imperial Valley of southern California, where one ... En savoir plus

    $13.73 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Trail to Kanjiroba

    Rediscovering Earth in an Age of Loss

    par William deBuys ...
    A revitalizing new perspective on Earthcare from Pulitzer Prize finalist William deBuys.In 2016 and 2018 acclaimed author and conservationist William deBuys joined extended medical expeditions into Upper Dolpo, a remote, ethnically Tibetan region of northwestern Nepal, to provide basic medical services to the residents of the region. Having written about climate change and species extinction, ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

  • A Great Aridness

    Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest

    par William deBuys ...
    With its soaring azure sky and stark landscapes, the American Southwest is one of the most hauntingly beautiful regions on earth. Yet staggering population growth, combined with the intensifying effects of climate change, is driving the oasis-based society close to the brink of a Dust-Bowl-scale catastrophe. In A Great Aridness, William deBuys paints a compelling picture of what the Southwest ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD

  • River of Traps

    A New Mexico Mountain Life

    New Mexico’s Sangre de Cristo mountains are a place where two cultures - Hispanic and Anglo - meet. They're also the place where three men meet: William deBuys, a young writer; Alex Harris, a young photographer; and Jacobo Romero, an old farmer. When Harris and deBuys move to New Mexico in the 1970s, Romero is the neighbor who befriends them and becomes their teacher. With the tools of simple ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Enchantment and Exploitation

    The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range, Revised and Expanded Edition

    par William deBuys ...
    First published in 1985, William deBuys’s Enchantment and Exploitation has become a New Mexico classic. It offers a complete account of the relationship between society and environment in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico, a region unique in its rich combination of ecological and cultural diversity. Now, more than thirty years later, this revised and expanded edition provides a ... En savoir plus

    $25.99 CAD

  • Seeing Things Whole

    The Essential John Wesley Powell

    Collections series Pioneers of Conservation
    John Wesley Powell was an American original. He was the last of the nation's great continental explorers and the first of a new breed of public servant: part scientist, part social reformer, part institution builder. His work and life reveal an enduringly valuable way of thinking about land, water, and society as parts of an interconnected whole; he was America's first great bioregional thinker ... En savoir plus

    $71.49 CAD

  • Cotton and Conquest

    How the Plantation System Acquired Texas

    This sweeping work of history explains the westward spread of cotton agriculture and slave labor across the South and into Texas during the decades before the Civil War. In arguing that the U.S. acquisition of Texas originated with planters’ need for new lands to devote to cotton cultivation, celebrated author Roger G. Kennedy takes a long view. Locating the genesis of Southern expansionism in the ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Playing the Odds

    Las Vegas and the Modern West

    par Hal K. Rothman ...
    This collection of Hal Rothman's wide-ranging, brash, and brilliant essays on Las Vegas offers up a treasury of insights on the follies and possibilities of the New West. Confident, passionate, learned and, yes, wise, Rothman is simply one of the most important voices writing on the region today. He is also a hell of a lot of fun to read. - Virginia Scharff, professor of history and Director, ... En savoir plus

    $25.99 CAD

  • A Great Aridness

    Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest

    par William deBuys ...
    With its soaring azure sky and stark landscapes, the American Southwest is one of the most hauntingly beautiful regions on earth. Yet staggering population growth, combined with the intensifying effects of climate change, is driving the oasis-based society close to the brink of a Dust-Bowl-scale catastrophe. In A Great Aridness, William deBuys paints a compelling picture of what the Southwest ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD

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    The Last Unicorn

    A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures

    par William deBuys ...
    Lu par William deBuys ...

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    12 heure 34 min

    An award-winning author's quest to find and understand a creature as rare and enigmatic as any on Earth.In 1992, in a remote mountain range, a team of scientists discovered the remains of an unusual animal with exquisite long horns. It turned out to be a living species new to Western science -- a saola, the first large land mammal discovered in fifty years.Rare then and rarer now, a live saola had ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD