Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Making and Unmaking of Puget Sound PDF full book. Access full book title Making and Unmaking of Puget Sound by Gary C. Howard. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Gary C. Howard Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 0429945914 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 168
Book Description
The Puget Sound is a complex fjord-estuary system in Washington State that is connected to the Pacific Ocean by the Juan de Fuca Strait and surrounded by several large population centers. The watershed is enormous, covering nearly 43,000 square kilometers with thousands of rivers and streams. Geological forces, volcanos, Ice Ages, and changes in sea levels make the Sound a biologically dynamic and fascinating environment, as well as a productive ecosystem. Human activity has also influenced the Sound. Humans built several major cities, such as Seattle and Tacoma, have dramatically affected the Puget Sound. This book describes the natural history and evolution of Puget Sound over the last 100 million years through the present and into the future. Key Features Summarizes a complex geological, geographical, and ecological history Reviews how the Puget Sound has changed and will likely change in the future Examines the different roles of various drivers of the Sound’s ecosystem function Includes the role of humans—both first people and modern populations. Explores Puget Sound as an example of general bay ecological and environmental issues
Author: Gary C. Howard Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 0429945914 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 168
Book Description
The Puget Sound is a complex fjord-estuary system in Washington State that is connected to the Pacific Ocean by the Juan de Fuca Strait and surrounded by several large population centers. The watershed is enormous, covering nearly 43,000 square kilometers with thousands of rivers and streams. Geological forces, volcanos, Ice Ages, and changes in sea levels make the Sound a biologically dynamic and fascinating environment, as well as a productive ecosystem. Human activity has also influenced the Sound. Humans built several major cities, such as Seattle and Tacoma, have dramatically affected the Puget Sound. This book describes the natural history and evolution of Puget Sound over the last 100 million years through the present and into the future. Key Features Summarizes a complex geological, geographical, and ecological history Reviews how the Puget Sound has changed and will likely change in the future Examines the different roles of various drivers of the Sound’s ecosystem function Includes the role of humans—both first people and modern populations. Explores Puget Sound as an example of general bay ecological and environmental issues
Author: Murray Morgan Publisher: Columbia Northwest Classics ISBN: 9780295983035 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 360
Book Description
With the same ability to make personalities and events come alive that characterizes his classic Skid Road, Murray Morgan here tells the colorful story of southern Puget Sound, where major events of Washington's history took place, and of Tacoma, the area's principal city. Drawing upon the original journals and reports, Morgan tells his story largely in terms of individuals, interweaving portraits of well-known historical figures with those who are more obscure but who have a special significance. Journalist and historian Murray Morgan (1916-2000) was the author of more than twenty books, including Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle and The Last Wilderness. He worked for Time magazine, the New York Herald Tribune, and CBS News before returning to Washington where he taught at Tacoma Community College and for fifteen years hosted the early morning radio show "Our Town, Our World."
Author: Robert Aldrich Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317999878 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 542
Book Description
The Routledge History of Western Empires is an all new volume focusing on the history of Western Empires in a comparative and thematic perspective. Comprising of thirty-three original chapters arranged in eight thematic sections, the book explores European overseas expansion from the Age of Discovery to the Age of Decolonisation. Studies by both well-known historians and new scholars offer fresh, accessible perspectives on a multitude of themes ranging from colonialism in the Arctic to the scramble for the coral sea, from attitudes to the environment in the East Indies to plans for colonial settlement in Australasia. Chapters examine colonial attitudes towards poisonous animals and the history of colonial medicine, evangelisaton in Africa and Oceania, colonial recreation in the tropics and the tragedy of the slave trade. The Routledge History of Western Empires ranges over five centuries and crosses continents and oceans highlighting transnational and cross-cultural links in the imperial world and underscoring connections between colonial history and world history. Through lively and engaging case studies, contributors not only weigh in on historiographical debates on themes such as human rights, religion and empire, and the ‘taproots’ of imperialism, but also illustrate the various approaches to the writing of colonial history. A vital contribution to the field.
Author: Kate Fullagar Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1443838063 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 350
Book Description
This collection of essays stems from a John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures. Held over two years, the seminar investigated the effects and transformations of ideas, peoples, and institutions from the Atlantic World when carried into the Antipodes. The papers presented in this volume distil some of the key themes to emerge from discussion, each demonstrating the complexity with which discourses and practices operated in the Indo-Pacific oceanic region. Some had unexpected effects, others underwent profound transformation. Always they were changed by the ideas, peoples, and institutions of the Antipodes. Combined, the chapters underscore the ways in which both oceanic worlds were co-produced through a variety of intellectual and practical interactions over the modern period. Essays by leading Pacific scholars such as Margaret Jolly, Anita Herle, and Katerina Teaiwa are joined by essays from key scholars of various regions in the Atlantic World such as Simon Schaffer, Iain McCalman, Sheila Fitzpatrick, and Michael McDonnell, as well as interventions by the new transnationalist breed of Australian historians, led by Alison Bashford and Ann Curthoys.
Author: Caroline C. Leighton Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780365238669 Category : Languages : en Pages : 276
Book Description
Excerpt from Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon, and California; 1865-1881 The following selections from observations and experiences during a residence of sixteen years on the Pacific Coast, while they do not claim to de scribe fully that portion of the country, nor to give any account of its great natural wealth and resources, yet indicate something of its character istic features and attractions, more especially those of the Puget Sound region. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Olive Rand Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781530796618 Category : Languages : en Pages : 204
Book Description
A Vacation Excursion, From Massachusetts Bay to Puget Sound by Olive Rand. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1884 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.
Author: Caroline C Leighton Publisher: Legare Street Press ISBN: 9781021456144 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This book is a memoir of the author's experiences living in the Pacific Northwest during the late 19th century. It provides firsthand accounts of the people, places, and events of this era. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Robert A. Reid Publisher: ISBN: 9781332183579 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 198
Book Description
Excerpt from Puget Sound and Western Washington: Cities Towns Scenery The purpose of this book is to present, by pen and picture, a simple and interesting story concerning the Puget Sound Country and Western Washington. While the vast territory included in the nineteen counties west of the Cascade Mountains precludes a complete narrative of the wonders of nature, the great development of civilization, and any fair analysis of prospective history, yet enough is narrated to justify the prophecy that this region is destined to attain a prominence and power in commercial influence in the world's commerce unsurpassed by any like area upon the globe. Upon the two thousand miles of Sound and Ocean shore, and from the seaports there is arising an ever increasing number given to maritime callings, a class of hardy and courageous men of deeds. Increasing thousands are taming the wilderness of forest, mountain and vale, and tilling the bountiful soil. The cities, centers of commerce, manufactures and trade, which sit upon the shores like gems set in a circlet, are rapidly increasing in size and number. All these great measures of development are following the planting of seed by the first settlers, little more than sixty years ago, and in the trend of events, forming a mighty commercial province. Witnessed daily by the people are scenes of natural objects of wonderful beauty. Mountains arc upon all sides, and primeval forests, sea and shore, land-locked lakes, rivers running from snowy mountain tops, combinations of vapor, cloud and sunset, more gorgeous and beautiful than artist hand can paint; all of these may the people of Western Washington daily behold. The past has been filled with romance and achievement! The present is fair to look upon! The prospect is full of promise and grandeur! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Gary C. Howard
Author: Gary C. Howard
Author: John Downing
Author: Murray Morgan
Author: Caroline C. Leighton
Author: Robert Aldrich
Author: Kate Fullagar
Author: Caroline C. Leighton
Author: Olive Rand
Author: Caroline C Leighton
Author: Robert A. Reid