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Pub. Date
c1994
Description
From Mount Achonee to Mount Ypsilon with hundreds of peaks, passes, lakes, and streams in between, Colorado historians Louisa Ward Arps and Elinor Eppich Kingery enthusiastically recorded the history of over 600 place names in Rocky Mountain National Park and the adjacent areas around Grand Lake and the Indian Peaks. In their inimitable style, Arps and Kingery included the personal anecdotes and interesting tidbits that make this book not only a valuable...
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
"This remarkable book introduces us to four unforgettable Apache people, each of whom offers a different take on the significance of places in their culture. Apache conceptions of wisdom, manners and morals and of their own history are inextricably intertwined with place, and by allowing us to overhear his conversations with Apaches on these subjects Basso expands our awareness of what place can mean to people. Most of us use the term "sense of place"...
46) Magic carpet
Author
Pub. Date
[1991]
Description
Aunt Agatha and Elizabeth imagine the travels of the rug on which they are sitting, from China across the sea to the west coast of the United States, and onward in a journey designed to let its carriers stop only in cities beginning with the letter "s."
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Emmy-award winning gadfly Mike Rowe presents a ridiculously entertaining, seriously fascinating collection of his favorite episodes from America's #1 short-form podcast, The Way I Heard It, along with a host of memories, ruminations, illustrations, and insights. It's a delightful collection of mysteries. A mosaic. A memoir. A charming, surprising must-read"--