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Author
Publisher
Juniper Creek Publishing
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
This 48-page, general information book for children, 8-12, is beautifully illustrated with full-color photographs, graphics, maps and charts. Discover Nevada's cities, deographics and industries, geography, geology and hydrology, government, prehistory and history, early exploration and settlement, native Nevadans, great women, mining, ranching and railroads, environmental issues, and flora and fauna.
Author
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
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"Writer-poet William L. Fox has spent much of his career contemplating the complex ways that landscape, human cognition, and history collide to create our perceptions and treatment of place. In Playa Works, Fox considers the West's emptiest spaces - the playas, or dry beds, of the ancient lakes that once filled much of the Great Basin. Among the flattest, most barren places on the planet, the West's playas have haunted the American imagination since...
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