Yosemite in Time: Ice Ages, Tree Clocks, Ghost Rivers

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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This book blends personal observations on Yosemite with reflections on photography and aesthetics, tourism and public life, and the histories of environmental and social politics. Rebecca Solnit's linked essays are interwoven with stunning images old and new: the book combines classic pictures by Eadweard Muybridge, Ansel Adams, and Edward Weston with painstakingly re-photographed versions to show the startling changes wrought over time -- by nature and humankind. Yosemite in Time paints a multifaceted portrait of a natural treasure that reflects the most compelling issues of our time.

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Utgivningsdatum2008-02-28
Mått304 x 250 x 8 mm
Vikt949 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor144
FörlagTrinity University Press,U.S.
ISBN9781595340429

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San Francisco writer Rebecca SolnitMen Explain Things To Me,The Faraway Nearby;Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas;A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities ThatArise in Disaster; Storming the Gates of Paradise; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Hope in the Dark: UntoldHistories, Wild Possibilities; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape,Gender, and Art; and River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, for which she received a Guggenheim fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award. She has workedon climate change, Native American land rights, and antinuclear, human rights, and antiwar issues as an activist and journalist.A contributing editor to Harper's and a frequent contributor to the political site Tomdispatch.com,Solnit has made her living as an independent writer since 1988.