California Serendipity in Desert and High Sierra

California Serendipity in Desert and High Sierra
Title California Serendipity in Desert and High Sierra PDF eBook
Author Andreas M. Cohrs
Publisher
Pages 424
Release 2012
Genre California
ISBN 9780985380304

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Andreas M. Cohrs presents an awesome guide to the less visited regions of California, as well as a glance into what makes up the Golden state and its glittering mentality. Through a chain of serendipitous events, Cohrs gained access to the belongings of the late backpacking icon, Colin Fletcher. Based on the outdoor guru’s original maps, notes, and photos, fifty years later he retraced The Walker’s hitherto untraceable thousand-mile journey along the lengthy spine of California, across the state’s enchanting deserts and over the snow-laden high sierra. With maps accompanying each chapter, drawn by Fletcher’s carto- grapher david Lindroth, more than 100 photos, and with stories from the trail, Cohrs tells a compelling tale of one of the most varied and fascinating regions on our planet. Yet, as the title reveals, California serendipity is more than a hiking guide that lays Fletcher’s original route at your feet for the first time. It takes the reader on a crash course through the state’s early history and its unique nature into finding the only true answer to Fletcher’s concern whether his 1958-trip could ever be repeated. With his narrative travel writing, Cohrs conveys the intimate sensations of what it means to venture upon a four-month trek, unpretentious but up close and affective, and why serendipity will travel with you, rewarding you with the most unexpected encounters, when you take the right turn.

The Thousand Mile Summer in Desert and High Sierra

The Thousand Mile Summer in Desert and High Sierra
Title The Thousand Mile Summer in Desert and High Sierra PDF eBook
Author Colin Fletcher
Publisher
Pages 238
Release 1964
Genre California
ISBN

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Story of a six month hike along California's mountain backbone from the Mexican to the Oregon border.

Walking the High Desert

Walking the High Desert
Title Walking the High Desert PDF eBook
Author Ellen Waterston
Publisher University of Washington Press
Pages 248
Release 2020-06-22
Genre History
ISBN 029574751X

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Former high desert rancher Ellen Waterston writes of a wild, essentially roadless, starkly beautiful part of the American West. Following the recently created 750-mile Oregon Desert Trail, she embarks on a creative and inquisitive exploration, introducing readers to a “trusting, naïve, earnest, stubbly, grumpy old man of a desert” that is grappling with issues at the forefront of national, if not global, concern: public land use, grazing rights for livestock, protection of sacred Indigenous ground, water rights, and protection of habitat for endangered species. Blending travel writing with memoir and history, Waterston profiles a wide range of people who call the high desert home and offers fresh perspectives on nationally reported regional conflicts such as the Malheur Wildlife Refuge occupation. Walking the High Desert invites readers—wherever they may be—to consider their own beliefs, identities, and surroundings through the optic of the high desert of southeastern Oregon.

California

California
Title California PDF eBook
Author David Muench
Publisher Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.
Pages 113
Release 1999
Genre California
ISBN 1558684697

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In this stunning collection, photographers David Muench and Marc Muench capture the luminous coastlines, magical deserts, giant redwoods, and fruitful valleys of this enchanting state.

Managing California's Water

Managing California's Water
Title Managing California's Water PDF eBook
Author Ellen Hanak
Publisher Public Policy Instit. of CA
Pages 500
Release 2011
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1582131414

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A Garden of Bristlecones

A Garden of Bristlecones
Title A Garden of Bristlecones PDF eBook
Author Michael P. Cohen
Publisher Environmental Arts and Humanit
Pages 348
Release 1998
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN

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This text investigates professional and popular conceptions as a set of narratives drawn from outside and inside bristlecone pine trees. It reveals the premises of the investigators, the nature of their inquiry and the extent of their knowledge, while also revealing the bristlecone pine itself.

Driving to Detroit

Driving to Detroit
Title Driving to Detroit PDF eBook
Author Lesley Hazleton
Publisher
Pages 328
Release 1999
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780684860114

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Leaving her home in Seattle in mid-summer to drive 'the long way round' to the Detroit auto show, Lesley Hazleton embarks on a journey to visit the holy places for cars - where they are raced, displayed, crashed, tested and made - as she seeks to understand our deep fascination with automobiles. Her quest takes her on a road trip that teaches her not only about cars and the peculiar passions of car lovers but also about herself. Halfway through this extraordinary adventure, Hazleton's father, the man who taught her to drive, dies suddenly, and her trip becomes a journey of grief and memory.