Author: J. U. Salvant
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292777418
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Watercolor paintings and brief historical essays capture the history, beauty, and natural resources of the Texas Gulf Coast.
The Historic Seacoast of Texas
Author: J. U. Salvant
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292777418
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Watercolor paintings and brief historical essays capture the history, beauty, and natural resources of the Texas Gulf Coast.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292777418
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Watercolor paintings and brief historical essays capture the history, beauty, and natural resources of the Texas Gulf Coast.
The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea
Author: Jack E. Davis
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 0871408678
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
Winner • Pulitzer Prize for History Winner • Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Finalist • National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, NPR, Library Journal, and gCaptain Booklist Editors’ Choice (History) Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence In this “cri de coeur about the Gulf’s environmental ruin” (New York Times), “Davis has written a beautiful homage to a neglected sea” (front page, New York Times Book Review). Hailed as a “nonfiction epic . . . in the tradition of Jared Diamond’s best-seller Collapse, and Simon Winchester’s Atlantic” (Dallas Morning News), Jack E. Davis’s The Gulf is “by turns informative, lyrical, inspiring and chilling for anyone who cares about the future of ‘America’s Sea’ ” (Wall Street Journal). Illuminating America’s political and economic relationship with the environment from the age of the conquistadors to the present, Davis demonstrates how the Gulf’s fruitful ecosystems and exceptional beauty empowered a growing nation. Filled with vivid, untold stories from the sportfish that launched Gulfside vacationing to Hollywood’s role in the country’s first offshore oil wells, this “vast and welltold story shows how we made the Gulf . . . [into] a ‘national sacrifice zone’ ” (Bill McKibben). The first and only study of its kind, The Gulf offers “a unique and illuminating history of the American Southern coast and sea as it should be written” (Edward O. Wilson).
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 0871408678
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
Winner • Pulitzer Prize for History Winner • Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Finalist • National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, NPR, Library Journal, and gCaptain Booklist Editors’ Choice (History) Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence In this “cri de coeur about the Gulf’s environmental ruin” (New York Times), “Davis has written a beautiful homage to a neglected sea” (front page, New York Times Book Review). Hailed as a “nonfiction epic . . . in the tradition of Jared Diamond’s best-seller Collapse, and Simon Winchester’s Atlantic” (Dallas Morning News), Jack E. Davis’s The Gulf is “by turns informative, lyrical, inspiring and chilling for anyone who cares about the future of ‘America’s Sea’ ” (Wall Street Journal). Illuminating America’s political and economic relationship with the environment from the age of the conquistadors to the present, Davis demonstrates how the Gulf’s fruitful ecosystems and exceptional beauty empowered a growing nation. Filled with vivid, untold stories from the sportfish that launched Gulfside vacationing to Hollywood’s role in the country’s first offshore oil wells, this “vast and welltold story shows how we made the Gulf . . . [into] a ‘national sacrifice zone’ ” (Bill McKibben). The first and only study of its kind, The Gulf offers “a unique and illuminating history of the American Southern coast and sea as it should be written” (Edward O. Wilson).
The History and Topography of the United States of North America
Author: John Howard Hinton
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History and Politics of the Year ...
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
Continuation of the reference work that originated with Robert Dodsley, written and published each year, which records and analyzes the year’s major events, developments and trends in Great Britain and throughout the world. After 1815 the usual form became a number of chapters on Great Britain, paying particular attention to the proceedings of Parliament, followed by chapters covering other countries in turn, no longer limited to Europe. The expansion of the History came at the expense of the sketches, reviews and other essays so that the nineteenth-century publication ceased to have the miscellaneous character of its eighteenth-century forebear, although poems continued to be included until 1862, and a small number of official papers and other important texts continue to be reproduced.
Publisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
Continuation of the reference work that originated with Robert Dodsley, written and published each year, which records and analyzes the year’s major events, developments and trends in Great Britain and throughout the world. After 1815 the usual form became a number of chapters on Great Britain, paying particular attention to the proceedings of Parliament, followed by chapters covering other countries in turn, no longer limited to Europe. The expansion of the History came at the expense of the sketches, reviews and other essays so that the nineteenth-century publication ceased to have the miscellaneous character of its eighteenth-century forebear, although poems continued to be included until 1862, and a small number of official papers and other important texts continue to be reproduced.
The History and Topography of the United States, Edited by J. H. H., Assisted by Several Literary Gentlemen in America and England. Illustrated with a Series of Views Drawn on the Spot, Etc
Author: John Howard Hinton
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
Book Description
Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954
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Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
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Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The National Park System Plan: Natural history
Author: United States. National Park Service
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Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
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Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The History of Our Country from the Discovery of America to the Present Time
Author: Edward Sylvester Ellis
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
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Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
Languages : en
Pages : 1490
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
Languages : en
Pages : 1490
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The History of Our Country
Author: Edward Sylvester Ellis
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description