Author: Sir Henry Evan Murchison James
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 636
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Account by H.E.M. James of the exploration of China by James, Francis Younghusband, and Harry English Fulford in 1885-1886. During his service in the Indian Civil Service from 1865 to 1900, James traveled to China in 1885 with Younghusband and Fulford to explore Manchuria and the Changbai Mountains. The account includes much detail on the local peoples and customs, and constitutes an important source of historical information on the region. Also included are appendices on opium, political corruption, and earlier expeditions.
Author: Sir Henry Evan Murchison James
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Author: Sir Henry Evan Murchison James
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Account by H.E.M. James of the exploration of China by James, Francis Younghusband, and Harry English Fulford in 1885-1886. During his service in the Indian Civil Service from 1865 to 1900, James traveled to China in 1885 with Younghusband and Fulford to explore Manchuria and the Changbai Mountains. The account includes much detail on the local peoples and customs, and constitutes an important source of historical information on the region. Also included are appendices on opium, political corruption, and earlier expeditions.
Author: Lucy Howe Crawford
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Category : White Mountains
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Author: Dan Szczesny
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781939449177
Category : Washington, Mount (N.H.)
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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"Informative, funny, and full of fascinating characters...Dan Szczesny bushwhacks a fresh, new, wonder-filled trail." -From the foreword by Rebecca Rule Over the course of one calendar year, journalist Dan Szczesny explored the history and mystique of New England's tallest mountain. But Mount Washington is more than just a 6,288-foot rock pile; the mountain is the cultural soul of climbers, hikers, and tourists from around the world.Szczesny's research took him outside of the archives; he was on the team of a ninety-seven-year-old ultra-runner, he dressed as Walt Whitman and read poetry while hiking up the mountain, and he spent a week in winter cooking for the scientists at the observatory. In The White Mountain, Szczesny turns a veteran journalist's eye toward exploring Mount Washington's place in the collective consciousness of the country and how this rugged landscape has reflected back a timeless history of our obsession and passion for exploration and discovery.
Author: Christopher Johnson
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584654612
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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A sweeping environmental history of a quintessential American wilderness.
Author: Steven D. Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781931271394
Category : Hiking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Henry David Thoreau
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395947999
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Describes how Blanche Douglas Leathers studied the Mississippi River and passed the test to become a steamboat captain in 1894.
Author: Steven D. Smith
Publisher: Appalachian Mountain Club
ISBN: 9781934028445
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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This fully updated, comprehensive hiking guide is the most trusted resource available for hiking trails in the White Mountain National Forest. Includes three high-quality, GPS-rendered, pull-out maps.
Author: Robert L. McGrath
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815606635
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Robert L. McGrath leads a tour of New Hampshire's White Mountains through art and illustration spanning three centuries. He surveys—often at an exhilarating pace—the topographic and metaphoric landscape of New Hampshire's White Mountains through the artistic and tourist life of the region as it appears in paintings and illustrations. Extending from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century, he includes by far the most extensive collection of pictorial works relating to the White Mountains to date. Although the scenic beauty of the White Mountains attracted many of America's most significant artists during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, such as Thomas Cole, Frank Stella, Winslow Homer, Fernand Leger, John Marin, and Marsden Hartley, no comprehensive account of this region's rich contribution to the history of American art has ever been published.
