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Author: Mir Tamim Ansary Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library ISBN: 9781432926731 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 56
Book Description
Introduces the geographic characteristics of California, including its many regions, natural resources and industries, climate, and natural attractions.
Author: Mir Tamim Ansary Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library ISBN: 9781432926731 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 56
Book Description
Introduces the geographic characteristics of California, including its many regions, natural resources and industries, climate, and natural attractions.
Author: Auguste Duhaut-Cilly Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520922476 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 317
Book Description
While French sea captain Auguste Duhaut-Cilly may not have become wealthy from his around-the-world travels between 1826 and 1829, his trip has enriched historians interested in early nineteenth-century California. Because of a poor choice in goods to trade he found it necessary to spend nearly two years on the Alta and Baja California coasts before disposing of his cargo and returning to France. What was bad luck for Duhaut-Cilly was good luck for us, however, because he recorded his impressions of the region's natural history and human populations in a diary. This translation of Duhaut-Cilly's writing offers today's readers a rare eyewitness account of the pastoral society that was Mexican California, including the missions at the height of their power. A veteran of the Napoleonic wars, Duhaut-Cilly was an educated man conversant in Spanish and English. He was also Catholic, which gave him special access to the California missions. Thus his diary allows the reader an insider's view of the padres' lives, including their dealings with the military. Through his eyes we see the region's indigenous people and how they were treated, and we're privy to his commentary on the behavior of the Californios. This translation also contains Duhaut-Cilly's account of the Sandwich Islands portion of his voyage and provides an authentic rendering of life at sea during the early nineteenth century. In the spirit of Richard Henry Dana's Two Years before the Mast, Duhaut-Cilly's reflections are a historical gem for anyone with a love of personal narratives and original accounts of the past.
Author: Graham Mackintosh Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated ISBN: 9780393312898 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 312
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The author recounts his experiences walking around the Baja California coast, describes the region's desert wildlife, and shares his impressions of the people and landscapes
Author: Alison Rose Jefferson Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 1496229061 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 366
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2020 Miriam Matthews Ethnic History Award from the Los Angeles City Historical Society Alison Rose Jefferson examines how African Americans pioneered America’s “frontier of leisure” by creating communities and business projects in conjunction with their growing population in Southern California during the nation’s Jim Crow era.
Author: Lonely Planet Publisher: Lonely Planet ISBN: 1760341487 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 676
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Lonely Planet Slovenia is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Stroll the leafy streets of Ljubljana, dive into the great outdoors at Lake Bled or sip some of the world's best Merlot in Vipava; all with your trusted travel companion.
Author: Greg de Nevers Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520274806 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 280
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The California Naturalist Handbook provides a fun, science-based introduction to California’s natural history with an emphasis on observation, discovery, communication, stewardship and conservation. It is a hands-on guide to learning about the natural environment of California. Subjects covered include California natural history and geology, native plants and animals, California’s freshwater resources and ecosystems, forest and rangeland resources, conservation biology, and the effects of global warming on California’s natural communities. The Handbook also discusses how to create and use a field notebook, natural resource interpretation, citizen science, and collaborative conservation and serves as the primary text for the California Naturalist Program.
Author: Josh Sides Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520939868 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 310
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In 1964 an Urban League survey ranked Los Angeles as the most desirable city for African Americans to live in. In 1965 the city burst into flames during one of the worst race riots in the nation's history. How the city came to such a pass—embodying both the best and worst of what urban America offered black migrants from the South—is the story told for the first time in this history of modern black Los Angeles. A clear-eyed and compelling look at black struggles for equality in L.A.'s neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces from the Great Depression to our day, L.A. City Limits critically refocuses the ongoing debate about the origins of America's racial and urban crisis. Challenging previous analysts' near-exclusive focus on northern "rust-belt" cities devastated by de-industrialization, Josh Sides asserts that the cities to which black southerners migrated profoundly affected how they fared. He shows how L.A.'s diverse racial composition, dispersive geography, and dynamic postwar economy often created opportunities—and limits—quite different from those encountered by blacks in the urban North.
Author: Mir Tamim Ansary
Author: Mir Tamim Ansary
Author: Mir Tamim Ansary
Author: Auguste Duhaut-Cilly
Author: Graham Mackintosh
Author: Alison Rose Jefferson
Author: Lonely Planet
Author: Delia Goetz
Author: All-Year Club of Southern California
Author: Greg de Nevers
Author: Josh Sides