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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian.
by Stegner, Wallace
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1954, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. A biography of John Wesley Powell "and the second opening of the West," introduction by Bernard De Voto, the book is also dedicated to him, with the fold-out panorama of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado looking east, south, and west from Point Sublime by William H. Holmes, it also includes the illustrations of the canyon country from the artists' point of view as well as from the camera's view, map endpapers in front, one of 6,000 copies, Colberg A13.1.a, considered one of his best books. Fine in a very good jacket, fold-out map in beautiful condition, scarce thus.
Synopsis
In this book Wallace Stegner recounts the sucesses and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. A prophet without honor who had a profound understanding of the American West, Powell warned long ago of the dangers economic exploitation would pose to the West and spent a good deal of his life overcoming Washington politics in getting his message across. Only now, we may recognize just how accurate a prophet he was. "This book goes far beyond biography, into the nature and soul of the American West. It is Stegner at his best, assaying an entire era of our history, packing his pages with insights as shrewd as his prose." —Ivan Doig
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Details
- Bookseller
- James M. Dourgarian, Bookman
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- JD35707
- Title
- Beyond the Hundredth Meridian.
- Author
- Stegner, Wallace
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1954, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.
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James M. Dourgarian, Bookman
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Concord, California
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