Author: Jeff Mitchell
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811741222
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Maps and descriptions for more than 200 Pennsylvania waterways. Information on minimum water levels, potential hazards, and difficulty level of each stream. Includes directions and recommendations for put-in and take-out at each site.
Paddling Pennsylvania
Author: Jeff Mitchell
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811741222
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Maps and descriptions for more than 200 Pennsylvania waterways. Information on minimum water levels, potential hazards, and difficulty level of each stream. Includes directions and recommendations for put-in and take-out at each site.
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811741222
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Maps and descriptions for more than 200 Pennsylvania waterways. Information on minimum water levels, potential hazards, and difficulty level of each stream. Includes directions and recommendations for put-in and take-out at each site.
Rivers of Pennsylvania
Author: Tim Palmer
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
An introduction to Pennsylvania's usable streams--45,000 miles of them--this book is designed to stimulate interest, enjoyment, and concern. Together with pleasurable reading, information is provided for the active or prospective canoeist, kayaker, boater, or rafter; the hiker or camper; the nature or history buff; the angler or conservationist. Each chapter features the author's experience on a major stream in one of the Keystone State's three great river basins: the Susquehanna, the Ohio, and the Delaware--with notes on the peripheral Genesee, Lake Erie, and Potomac watersheds. Coverage is given of all significant streams, focusing on particular recreational features, historical events, or environmental issues. A section at the back of the book gives practical suggestions for riverine recreation: where to go, what to expect there, and how to keep safe and comfortable. Topics covered are: places for canoeing, boating, and rafting; fishing sites; hiking trails; camping places; and tips for safety, health, and comfort. The entire book is illustrated with maps and photographs, including a section in color. The general introduction to Rivers of Pennsylvania presents a geographical and geological overview, and a concluding chapter summarizes unsolved problems and challenges. The future of Pennsylvania rivers is shown to require responsible stewardship: a balancing of equally legitimate goals in the domains of industrial, agricultural, and residential development; health and recreation; and conservation not only of the streams themselves but also of their ecologically related fauna and flora.
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
An introduction to Pennsylvania's usable streams--45,000 miles of them--this book is designed to stimulate interest, enjoyment, and concern. Together with pleasurable reading, information is provided for the active or prospective canoeist, kayaker, boater, or rafter; the hiker or camper; the nature or history buff; the angler or conservationist. Each chapter features the author's experience on a major stream in one of the Keystone State's three great river basins: the Susquehanna, the Ohio, and the Delaware--with notes on the peripheral Genesee, Lake Erie, and Potomac watersheds. Coverage is given of all significant streams, focusing on particular recreational features, historical events, or environmental issues. A section at the back of the book gives practical suggestions for riverine recreation: where to go, what to expect there, and how to keep safe and comfortable. Topics covered are: places for canoeing, boating, and rafting; fishing sites; hiking trails; camping places; and tips for safety, health, and comfort. The entire book is illustrated with maps and photographs, including a section in color. The general introduction to Rivers of Pennsylvania presents a geographical and geological overview, and a concluding chapter summarizes unsolved problems and challenges. The future of Pennsylvania rivers is shown to require responsible stewardship: a balancing of equally legitimate goals in the domains of industrial, agricultural, and residential development; health and recreation; and conservation not only of the streams themselves but also of their ecologically related fauna and flora.
Down the Susquehanna to the Chesapeake
Author:
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271046651
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271046651
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
The Journal of a Tour Into the Territory Northwest of the Alleghany Mountains ; Made in the Spring of the Year 1803
Author: Thaddeus Mason Harris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Feeling his mistress has rejected him in preference to her newly hatched chicks, the old hound dog decides he must hatch from an egg and learn to say "peep" to regain favor.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Feeling his mistress has rejected him in preference to her newly hatched chicks, the old hound dog decides he must hatch from an egg and learn to say "peep" to regain favor.
Susquehanna, River of Dreams
Author: Susan Q. Stranahan
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801851476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
In Susquehanna, River of Dreams award-winning journalist Susan Q. Stranahan tells the sweeping story of one of America's great rivers – ranging in time from the Susquehanna's geologic origins to the modern threats to its eco-system, describing human settlements, industry and pollution, and recent efforts to save the river and its "drowned estuary," the Chesapeake Bay. The result is a unique natural history of the vast Susquehanna watershed and a compelling look at environmental issues of national importance.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801851476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
In Susquehanna, River of Dreams award-winning journalist Susan Q. Stranahan tells the sweeping story of one of America's great rivers – ranging in time from the Susquehanna's geologic origins to the modern threats to its eco-system, describing human settlements, industry and pollution, and recent efforts to save the river and its "drowned estuary," the Chesapeake Bay. The result is a unique natural history of the vast Susquehanna watershed and a compelling look at environmental issues of national importance.
The Invention of Rivers
Author: Dilip da Cunha
Publisher: Penn Studies in Landscape Arch
ISBN: 9780812249996
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Featuring more than 150 illustrations, many in color, The Invention of Rivers integrates history, art, cultural studies, hydrology, and geography to tell the story of how rivers have been culturally constructed as lines granted special roles in defining human habitation and everyday practice.
Publisher: Penn Studies in Landscape Arch
ISBN: 9780812249996
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Featuring more than 150 illustrations, many in color, The Invention of Rivers integrates history, art, cultural studies, hydrology, and geography to tell the story of how rivers have been culturally constructed as lines granted special roles in defining human habitation and everyday practice.
The Lincoln Highway
Author: Brian Butko
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 081174826X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Fully revised and updated edition. Filled with all-new vintage postcards and photos. Maps for travelers following the original route.
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 081174826X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Fully revised and updated edition. Filled with all-new vintage postcards and photos. Maps for travelers following the original route.
Travels in America, Performed in the Year 1806
Author: Thomas Ashe
Publisher: London : Printed for R. Phillips
ISBN:
Category : Alleghany River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher: London : Printed for R. Phillips
ISBN:
Category : Alleghany River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
The Lincoln Trail in Pennsylvania: A History and Guide
Author:
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271038964
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271038964
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Coming of Age In 1950s Rural Western Pennsylvania
Author: Rick Sheffer
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781660702374
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Gary Ashbaugh - I just finished reading your book. Boy, did that ever turn the clock back. I think that described life in those small towns to a tee. Congratulations on getting it published. TOWN and TIME ... My cycle of life began January 12, 1945, seven months before the end of WWII, in Emlenton, Pennsylvania, a borough of some 800 souls, where generations of my father's family had lived and died. Emlenton, which lies partially isolated in the hills of northwestern Pennsylvania, offered few outside distractions, so we relied heavily on our imaginations and the natural resources that surrounded us. The swimming holes along Richey Run Creek, the Indian cave below the town cemetery, and long hikes along the railroad tracks that followed alongside the majestic Allegheny River offered plenty of adventure and diversion. Our lives revolved around paper routes, baseball, pin ball machines, hotdogs, French fries, 5&10 stores, dances, and dating. The freezing cold winters involved basketball, deer hunting and fur trapping. A youthful fertile mind, interested in science, led to rocketry, homemade motors, crystal radios, moonshine, and motor scooters that provided a lifetime of memories. The stories shared are sometimes funny, poignant, and often laced with mischief. Emlenton seemed to be magical, and those times now seem idyllic. This is where I grew up, and this book is about the time, the place, the people, and the events that formed my coming of age in the 1950s.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781660702374
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Gary Ashbaugh - I just finished reading your book. Boy, did that ever turn the clock back. I think that described life in those small towns to a tee. Congratulations on getting it published. TOWN and TIME ... My cycle of life began January 12, 1945, seven months before the end of WWII, in Emlenton, Pennsylvania, a borough of some 800 souls, where generations of my father's family had lived and died. Emlenton, which lies partially isolated in the hills of northwestern Pennsylvania, offered few outside distractions, so we relied heavily on our imaginations and the natural resources that surrounded us. The swimming holes along Richey Run Creek, the Indian cave below the town cemetery, and long hikes along the railroad tracks that followed alongside the majestic Allegheny River offered plenty of adventure and diversion. Our lives revolved around paper routes, baseball, pin ball machines, hotdogs, French fries, 5&10 stores, dances, and dating. The freezing cold winters involved basketball, deer hunting and fur trapping. A youthful fertile mind, interested in science, led to rocketry, homemade motors, crystal radios, moonshine, and motor scooters that provided a lifetime of memories. The stories shared are sometimes funny, poignant, and often laced with mischief. Emlenton seemed to be magical, and those times now seem idyllic. This is where I grew up, and this book is about the time, the place, the people, and the events that formed my coming of age in the 1950s.