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Donald Worster

A River Running West

The Life of John Wesley Powell. Sprachen: Englisch. 23,4 cm / 15,6 cm / 3,7 cm ( B/H/T )
EAN 9780195156355

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688 Seiten
September 2002
Oxford University Press

John Wesley Powell, the great American explorer and environmental pioneer, embodied the energy, optimism, and westward impulse of the young United States. "A River Running West" is a gorgeously written, magisterial account of this towering figure, a true story of undaunted courage. 42 halftones. 7 maps.

Donald Worster is Hall Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas. His books include The Wealth of Nature, Under Western Skies, and the Bancroft Prize-winning Dust Bowl. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas.