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    Natural Rivals

    John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Creation of America’s Public Lands

    de John Clayton ...
    Narrado por Richard Powers ...

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    9 hora 45 minutos

    This dynamic examination traces the lives of two of the most influential figures and their dueling approaches on America’s natural landscape.John Muir, the most famous naturalist in American history, protected Yosemite, cofounded the Sierra Club, and is sometimes called the Father of the National Parks. A poor immigrant, self-taught, individualistic, and skeptical of institutions, he had an ... Leer más

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    Wonderlandscape

    Yellowstone National Park and the Evolution of an American Cultural Icon

    de John Clayton ...
    Narrado por Arthur Morey ...

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    9 hora 6 minutos

    An evocative blend of history and nature writing that tells the story of Yellowstone’s evolving significance in American culture through the stories of ten iconic figuresYellowstone is America’s premier national park. Today Yellowstone is often a byword for conservation, natural beauty, and a way for everyone to enjoy the great outdoors. But it was not always this way. Wonderlandscape presents a ... Leer más

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  • Natural Rivals

    de John Clayton ...
    John Muir and Gifford Pinchot have often been seen as the embodiment of conflicting environmental philosophies. Muir, the preservationist and co-founder of the Sierra Club. Pinchot, the first chief of the U.S. Forest Service advocating sustainability in timber harvests, instituted conservation. The idealistic Muir saw nature as something special and separate; the pragmatic Pinchot accepted that ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Remembering Manchester

    Towering Titans and Unsung Heroes

    de John Clayton ...
    Series series American Chronicles
    The general's courage and calm under pressure would be echoed by many other sons and daughters of Manchester in the succeeding centuries, as the hamlet settled around Amoskeag Falls grew into New Hampshire's largest city. John Clayton describes thirty-two of the Queen City's most remarkable residents, from Iwo Jima flag raiser Rene Gagnon and fast-food innovator Richard McDonald to lesser-known ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Source

    de John Clayton ...
    What is the origin of the world and of life itself?Did a series of accidents and evolution bring about the world as we know it?Or is there a design and purpose behind it all?And if there is a design, is there an ultimate designer?A number of years ago, John Clayton, a second-generation atheist and respected scientist and teacher, set out to disprove the Bible from a scientific point of view. ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Wonderlandscape

    de John Clayton ...
    An evocative blend of history and nature writing that tells the story of Yellowstone’s evolving significance in American culture through the stories of ten iconic figures.In calling Yellowstone “Wonderland,” the first white explorers were comparing its striking geological features to the just-published Alice in Wonderland. But over its history, Yellowstone has become famous for not only its ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Stories from Montana's Enduring Frontier

    Exploring an Untamed Legacy

    de John Clayton ...
    Series series American Chronicles
    At the turn of the twentieth century, Montana started emerging from its rugged past. Permanent towns and cities, powered by mining, tourism, and trade, replaced ramshackle outposts. Yet Montana's frontier endured, both in remote pockets and in the wider cultural imagination. The frontier thus played a continuing role in Montanans' lives, often in fascinating ways. Author John Clayton has written ... Leer más

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  • The Other Pendle Witches

    de John Clayton ...
    An fascinating account of witch trials in 1634 where over 60 local people were arrested in the area of Pendle Forest (East Lancashire - Northern England). These unfortunates were tried for their lives on the evidence of a ten year-old boy who became famous as the 'Pendle Witch-finder.'This case became nationally famous when King Charles the First took a personal interest. Playwrights wrote and ... Leer más

    $4.50 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Pendle Witch Fourth Centenary Handbook

    de John Clayton ...
    We have reached that prominent milestone of four centuries since the Pendle Witch trials of 1612. During the period of March to August of that year the number of people accused of witchcraft, and eventually standing trial for their lives, numbered almost two-score. Over half of these unfortunates ended their days on the rope at Gallows Hill in Lancaster.Four hundred years on it is perhaps ... Leer más

    $4.95 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Cotton and Cold Blood

    de John Clayton ...
    A historical novel of life, love and murder in Victorian England.This well-researched true story follows the life of Sarah Ann Davis as she leaves her Black Country home in search of a better life in the booming cotton district of East Lancashire.Sarah goes on to work in service and the humour and hardship of life in the cotton village of Barrowford are superbly described.The humanity of northern ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Death in Living Gray

    de John Clayton ...
    Prudence Abernathy left her job in a California art gallery to marry a young army captain on the way home from Vietnam. She settled into the life of a country housewife at the old family plantation in Mason County, Virginia—that is, until her husband is disbarred from practicing law. Prudence has to pitch in to keep the family finances afloat, first by selling off antiques from the manor house, ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Who Killed John Clayton?

    Political Violence and the Emergence of the New South, 1861-1893

    de Kenneth C. Barnes ...
    In 1888 a group of armed and masked Democrats stole a ballot box from a small town in Conway County, Arkansas. The box contained most of the county’s black Republican votes, thereby assuring defeat for candidate John Clayton in a close race for the U.S. Congress. Days after he announced he would contest the election, a volley of buckshot ripped through Clayton’s hotel window, killing him instantly ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD