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138 books match the query 'Discovery and exploration' and 2 start with g

cover of Gender On Ice: American Ideologies of Polar Expeditions

Gender On Ice

American Ideologies of Polar Expeditions

Lisa Bloom

University of Minnesota Press, 1993

Bloom focuses on the conquest of the North Pole as she reveals how popular print and visual media defined and shaped American national ideologies from the early twentieth century to the present.

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cover of Glen Canyon Country, The: A Personal Memoir

Glen Canyon Country, The

A Personal Memoir

Don D Fowler

University of Utah Press, 2011

In his new book, The Glen Canyon Country, archaeologist Don D. Fowler shares the history of a place and the peoples who sojourned there over the course of several thousand years. To tell this story, he weaves his personal experience as a student working on the Glen Canyon Salvage Project with accounts of early explorers, geologists, miners, railroad developers, settlers, river runners, and others who entered this magical place. The book details the canyon’s story via historical and scientific summaries, biographical sketches, personal memoir, and previously unpublished photos of the land and its explorers.

 Readers will experience the intrigue and beauty of the Canyon while following not only the story of an individual but also of Glen Canyon itself. Infused with the breadth and depth of a lifetime of archaeological experience, The Glen Canyon Country is the definitive account of the prehistory and history of a significant river corridor and the surrounding land.
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