America The Vanishing: Rural Life And The Price Of Progress
by Ogden Samuel R
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0828901023
- ISBN 13
- 9780828901024
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About This Item
Stephen Greene Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1969. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0828901023 . Blue cloth covered boards in Near Fine condition. Pages are tightly bound, bright & unmarked. The DJ is unclipped and in Very Good condition. Contents: alking myself to sleep at one more Hilton / John Ciardi, The garden of ashes / Leo Marx, [Part] 1. The unspoiled land, The generall survey of the country / Thomas Morton, De Soto tours the New World / John Bakeless, The wild Middle West / John Bakeless, Fathers of waters / John Bakeless, A trip on the St. John River in Florida / William Bartram, The Ohio / John Audubon, Hospitality in the woods / John Audubon, Breaking the ice / Francis Parkman, Jumping off / Francis Parkman, The passes / John Muir, [Part] 2. Years of spacious livingGreat Egg Harbor / John AudubonThe profits of idleness / Nathaniel HawthorneSounds / Henry David ThoreauQuincy / Henry AdamsMy first visit to New England / William Dean HowellsPrairie farm / Mark TwainA judicial wedding / Hamlin GarlandThe frontier of Indiana / Theodore DreiserGrowing up along the Brandywine / Henry Seidel CanbySummer on the old farm / Russell H. FarnsworthMill and village / Russell H. FarnsworthMiss Locke's / Ruth CrosbyCedar River, Maine / William M. ClarkSolo in Wyoming / Charles W. Morton[Part] 3. Going back to the soilJuly / David GraysonThe pleasures of Lake Champlain / Elliott MerrickThe most difficult step / Samuel OgdenFarthest field to the north / Whittaker ChambersA time for summary / Hal Borland[Part] 4. The price of progressThe poisoned hills / Edwin Way TealeFro-joy / E. B. WhiteWalden / E. B. WhiteEarthly paradise, El Centro, California / Robert JungkThe greatest threat to life on Earth / Margery & Lorus J. MilneTo survive on Earth / Barry CommonerA fable for tomorrow / Rachel Carson[Part] 5. Looking for a silver liningThe twentieth century: dawn or twilight? / Joseph Wood KrutchPatterns of the future / Harrison BrownThe human implications / Siegfried Giedion; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 242 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26911
- Title
- America The Vanishing: Rural Life And The Price Of Progress
- Author
- Ogden Samuel R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; Second Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0828901023
- ISBN 13
- 9780828901024
- Publisher
- Stephen Greene Press
- Place of Publication
- Brattleboro, Vt
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- 0828901023, Business & Economics, Country Life, Substainable Development
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- Business & Economics; Finance & Investments;
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