Author: Halka Chronic
Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company
Keywords: roadside, geology, series, colorado
Number of Pages: 398
Published: 2002-08-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0878424474
ISBN-13: 9780878424474
The rocks and landforms have not changed much since the publication of the first edition of the Roadside Geology of Colorado in 1980, but our understanding of them has. With expanded coverage, updated maps, new photographs, and the latest geologic interpretations, this nontechnical guide introduces you to the tumultuous geological history of Colorado s mountains, plateaus, and plains. The second edition includes tours of Black Canyon in Gunnison National Park, Rocky Mountain National Park, Dinosaur National Monument, Great Sand Dunes National Monument and Preserve, Mesa Verde National Park, an
Author: Richard W. Ojakangas
Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company
Keywords: roadside, geology, series, minnesota
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2009-10-01
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0878425624
ISBN-13: 9780878425624
You may have heard that Minnesota s ten thousand lakes are the hoofprints of Paul Bunyan s big blue ox, Babe. Don t you believe it! writes author Dick Ojakangas. Though the lakes, which formed at the end of the most recent ice age, may be Minnesota s most famous features, the glaciated countryside disguises a much longer history of volcanoes and plate collisions not surprising when you learn that Minnesota was at the active edge of the fledgling North American continent for several billion years.Roadside Geology of Minnesota steers you over glacial moraines and till plains to some of the state
Author: Tom Robbins
Publisher: Bantam
Keywords: attraction, roadside
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1990-04-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0553349481
ISBN-13: 9780553349481
What if the Second Coming didn’t quite come off as advertised? What if "the Corpse" on display in that funky roadside zoo is really who they say it is--what does that portent for the future of western civilization? And what if a young clairvoyant named Amanda reestablishes the flea circus as popular entertainment and fertility worship as the principal religious form of our high-tech age? Another Roadside Attraction answers those questions and a lot more. It tells us, for example, what the sixties were truly all about, not by reporting on the psychedelic decade but by recreating it, fr
Author: Tom Bishop
Publisher: Johnson Books
Keywords: riches, roadside, way, gold
Number of Pages: 52
Published: 1971-06
List price: $4.95
ISBN-10: 0933472315
ISBN-13: 9780933472310
A complete guide to finding gold, from panning to electronic prospecting. Includes maps of gold-bearing areas throughout the U.S. and descriptions of equipment.
Author: David Bellamy
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children’s Books
Keywords: roadside, world, changing
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1999-03
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 1845072197
ISBN-13: 9781845072193
This book presents the story of the plant and animal life by a disused farm track, and what happens when man threatens to destroy it by building a six-lane road where the track used to be.
Author: Ed Sobey
Publisher: Chicago Review Press Inc
Keywords: technology, roadside, guide, field
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2006-06-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1556526091
ISBN-13: 9781556526091
Author: Louise Imogen Guiney
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: harp, roadside
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 2009-06-04
List price: $16.75
ISBN-10: 111059013X
ISBN-13: 9781110590131
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The world to me has nothing dear Beyond the namesake river here: O Simois is wild and clear ! And to his brink my heart I bring; (Alas, alas, The one inexorable thing!) My heart no more, if that might be, Would stay his waters from the sea, To cover Troy, to cover me, To save us from the perishing. (Alas, alas, The one inexorable thing !) A Friend’s Song for Simoiiius
