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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1979
Language
English
Description
Many striking colored and black-and-white photographs illustrate a lucid and attractively written text which deals by geographic areas with the geology, ecology, flora, and fauna of the western United States, Alaska, and Canada and the changes destructive and constructive wrought by man there.
Author
Publisher
CityFiles Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1942, the United States rounded up 120,000 residents of Japanese ancestry living along the West Coast and sent them to interment camps for the duration of World War II. Many abandoned their land. Many gave up their personal property. Each one of them lost a part of their lives
15) Ansel Adams
Series
Publisher
PBS DVD Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Intimate portrait of the life and career of photographer, Ansel Adams.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"As a child, Ansel Adams just couldn't sit still. He felt trapped indoors and never walked anywhere--he ran. Even when he sat, his feet danced. But in nature, Ansel felt right at home. He fell in love with the gusting gales of the Golden Gate, the quiet whisper of Lobos Creek, the icy white of Yosemite Valley, and countless other remarkable natural sights. From his early days in San Francisco to the height of his glory nationwide, this book chronicles...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"This important work of nonfiction features powerful images of the Japanese American incarceration captured by three photographers—Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams—along with firsthand accounts of this grave moment in history. Three months after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the incarceration of all Japanese and Japanese Americans living on the West Coast of the United States. Families,...
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