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Autore |
Scheese Don |
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Titolo |
Mountains of memory : a fire lookout's life in the River of No Return Wilderness / / Don Scheese; foreword by Wayne Franklin |
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2001 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxx, 224 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Collana |
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American land & life series |
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Disciplina |
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363.379092 |
634.9/3 |
634.93 |
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Soggetti |
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Fire lookouts - Idaho - Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness |
Natural history - Idaho - Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness |
Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness (Idaho) |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-220) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1.Settling In; 2.Working a Lookout; 3.Visitors; 4.Independence Day; 5.Eyes in the Sky; 6.Some Former Inhabitants; 7.Running the River; 8.Midsummer Musings and Field Notes; 9.Fire on the Mountain, lightning in the Air; 10.Society; 11.Friends; 12.Pleasing Prospects; 13.Getting to the Source of Things; 14.The Bighorn Crags; 15.The Eagle Bar Fire; 16.Hunting, The Fundamental Diversion; 17.The Habit of Walking; 18.The Fires of Fall; 19.Worship; 20.Last Visitors; 21.Disappearances; 22.The State of Nature; 23.Coda; Select Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In Mountains of Memory, seasoned wilderness dweller Don Scheese charts a long season of watching for and fighting fires in Idaho's River of No Return Wilderness&151the largest federal wilderness area in the mainland United States. An inspiring tale of self-discovery, Mountains of Memory paints a complex portrait of the natural, institutional, and historical forces that have shaped the great forested landscapes of the American West. |
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