Over The Rim
Title | Over The Rim PDF eBook |
Author | William Smart |
Publisher | Utah State University Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1999-12-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780874212815 |
Over the Rim is the first book about an important but little-known expedition sent by Brigham Young to explore southern Utah. Led by Mormon apostle Parley P. Pratt, the party traveled from Salt Lake City south across the rim of the Great Basin to the Virgin River near future St. George. They brought back to Mormon leaders their first detailed portrait of the country to the south that the church planned to settle.
Canaries on the Rim
Title | Canaries on the Rim PDF eBook |
Author | Chip Ward |
Publisher | Verso |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2001-05-17 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781859843215 |
A quest to understand the secret history of ecocide in Utah.
Above the Rim
Title | Above the Rim PDF eBook |
Author | Jen Bryant |
Publisher | Abrams |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 2020-10-06 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1647001617 |
The story of Elgin Baylor, basketball icon and civil rights advocate, from an all-star team Hall-of-famer Elgin Baylor was one of basketball’s all-time-greatest players—an innovative athlete, team player, and quiet force for change. One of the first professional African-American players, he inspired others on and off the court. But when traveling for away games, many hotels and restaurants turned Elgin away because he was black. One night, Elgin had enough and staged a one-man protest that captured the attention of the press, the public, and the NBA. Above the Rim is a poetic, exquisitely illustrated telling of the life of an underrecognized athlete and a celebration of standing up for what is right.
Fire on the Rim
Title | Fire on the Rim PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen J. Pyne |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2016-06-01 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0295805226 |
In this lively account of one [fire] season, Pyne introduces us to the tightly knit world of a fire crew, to the complex geography of the North Rim, to the technique and changing philosophy of fire management.Publishers Weekly
On the Rim of the Caribbean
Title | On the Rim of the Caribbean PDF eBook |
Author | Paul M. Pressly |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2013-03-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0820335673 |
DIVHow did colonial Georgia, an economic backwater in its early days, make its way into the burgeoning Caribbean and Atlantic economies where trade spilled over national boundaries, merchants operated in multiple markets, and the transport of enslaved Africans bound together four continents? In On the Rim of the Caribbean, Paul M. Pressly interprets Georgia's place in the Atlantic world in light of recent work in transnational and economic history. He considers how a tiny elite of newly arrived merchants, adapting to local culture but loyal to a larger vision of the British empire, led the colony into overseas trade. From this perspective, Pressly examines the ways in which Georgia came to share many of the characteristics of the sugar islands, how Savannah developed as a "Caribbean" town, the dynamics of an emerging slave market, and the role of merchant-planters as leaders in forging a highly adaptive economic culture open to innovation. The colony's rapid growth holds a larger story: how a frontier where Carolinians played so large a role earned its own distinctive character. Georgia's slowness in responding to the revolutionary movement, Pressly maintains, had a larger context. During the colonial era, the lowcountry remained oriented to the West Indies and Atlantic and failed to develop close ties to the North American mainland as had South Carolina. He suggests that the American Revolution initiated the process of bringing the lowcountry into the orbit of the mainland, a process that would extend well beyond the Revolution./div
Driving on the Rim
Title | Driving on the Rim PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas McGuane |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2010-10-19 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307594467 |
The unforgettable story of a housepainter turned doctor in Big Sky country who finds himself on a darkly funny journey to salvation in this “irrepressibly comic and optimistic” novel (The New York Times Book Review) from the acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts Berl Pickett is living in the small town of Livingston, Montana. The son of Pentecostal rug-shampooers, Pickett has never been the social toast of the town, but when he is accused of negligent homicide in the death of his former lover, he finds himself ostracized by his colleagues and realizes just how small his little village truly is. But fortunately for Berl, the very thing that sets him apart—his inability to follow the pack—proves to be his saving grace. With this inglorious hero, McGuane has created an unforgettable voyager.
On the Rim
Title | On the Rim PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Neumann |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 373 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 9780816627851 |
Weaving history, ethnography, and documentary photography, the author describes how the Grand Canyon became an internationally renowned tourist attraction and cultural icon. 58 photos.