The Last Wilderness
Murray Morgan's classic history of the Olympic Peninsula, originally published in 1955, evokes a remote American wilderness as large as the state of Massachusetts, more rugged than the Rockies, its lowlands blanketed by a cool jungle of fir and pine and cedar, its peaks bearing hundreds of miles of living ice that gave rise to swift rivers alive with giant salmon.Drawing on historical research and personal tales collected from docks, forest trails, and waterways, Morgan recounts vivid adventures of the area's settlers-loggers, hunters, prospectors, homesteaders, utopianists, murderers, profit-seekers, conservationists, Wobblies, and bureaucra…
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- ISBN: 978-0-295-74534-3
- EAN: 9780295745343
- Produktnummer: 31702123
- Verlag: University of Washington Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 296 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'167 KB
- Abbildungen: 1 map
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Murray Morgan. Introduction by Tim McNulty
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