West category: 3403 books
Top Trails: Maui
Must-Do Hikes for Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Maui is indeed a hiker's paradise. An impressive network of trails crisscross the second-largest Hawaiian island, from meditative beach walks to heady treks high atop a volcano. Hidden in cloud forest, more trails lead to tumbling waterfalls, hidden springs and groves of bamboo. Back down on the coast,...
Great Basin National Park
A Guide to the Park and Surrounding Area
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2012
Great Basin National Park is in large part a high-alpine park, but it sits in one of America’s driest, least populated, and most isolated deserts. That contrast is one facet of the diversity that characterizes this region. Within and outside the park are phenomenal landscape features, biotic wonders,...
by Jay Maclean
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Spanning the late 1980s to 2000, Coach Class to the Americas reveals aspects of life and times in the Americas that will probably not appear in history books—in short stories that take the reader from the lighter side of elections in Washington DC to fashions in Waikiki, from the guilt of sun seekers...
Lake Mead National Recreation Area
A History of America’s First National Playground
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
This book examines the creation, characteristics, and tribulations of the first United States National Recreation Area. It also addresses the National Park Service’s historic role in managing reservoir-based recreation in a uniquely arid region. First named the Boulder Dam Recreation Area, this...
by Keeran Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Puerto Rico is a self-governing territory that belongs to the United States. Located in the north-eastern Caribbean Sea, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands its total area is 9 104 square kilometres and its population is 3,994,259 inhabitants. The capital is San Juan. Puerto...
by Keeran Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
San Francisco is the fourth - a popular city in California, USA. The city is an important financial, cultural and transportation centre. It has an outlet to the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay occupies. The population is 808,976 inhabitants (data from 2008). And the area is 600.7 square kilometres...
The Mammoth Letters
Running Away to a Mountain Town
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
WINNER OF 2018 THE NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARD IN REGIONAL NON-FICTION: WEST CATEGORY.
Questions arise when a big city family moves to a remote mountain town in the Eastern Sierra: Why is there a bear in the grocery store? What happened to the missing school teacher? Where do you buy soccer...
A Jamaican Plantation
The History of Worthy Park 1670-1970
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1970
Worthy Park has archives covering much of its three-hundred year history. Using these records, the authors have written the first complete history of a West Indian sugar estate. However, this is not just the story of a single Jamaican plantation and its people over three hundred years; the study reveals, in microcosm, the social and economic development of the area.
The English-American
A New Survey of the West Indies, 1648
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
First published in 1928.
'Can be safely named unique and can never quite lose its value.' Times Literary Supplement.
'This should be bought not borrowed.' Saturday Review
The publication in 1648 of the first authentic account of the provinces of New Spain and Central America by a well-known and educated...
by Francisco Morales Padrón, Armando García de la Torre
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Spanish Trinidad is the first ever history of the 300 year span of the Spanish period of Trinidad, written from a strictly Spanish perspective. From the encounter of Christopher Columbus with the first Trinidadian Amerindians during the summer of 1498, to the handover of the island to the British...
Race, Culture, and Identity
Francophone West African and Caribbean Literature and Theory from NZgritude to CrZolitZ
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2006
In this groundbreaking book, Shireen Lewis gives a comprehensive analysis of the literary and theoretical discourse on race, culture, and identity by Francophone and Caribbean writers beginning in the early part of the twentieth century and continuing into the dawn of the new millennium. Examining...
by Gail Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
"Saunders resoundingly affirms the relevance of island history. Scholars will appreciate the detail and insights."--Choice "Deftly unravels the complex historical interrelationships of race, color, class, economics, and environment in the Colonial Bahamas. An invaluable study for scholars...
Igniting the Caribbean's Past
Fire in British West Indian History
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Unlike the earthquakes and hurricanes that have influenced Caribbean history, the region's fires have almost always been caused by humans. Geographer Bonham C. Richardson explores the effects of fire in the social and ecological history of the British Lesser Antilles, from the British Virgin Islands...
Peninsula Trails
Hiking and Biking Trails on the San Francisco Peninsula
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Choose from more than 150 trips on over 500 miles of trails with this comprehensive guide to every park and preserve on the San Francisco Peninsula. From Fort Funston and San Bruno Mountain south to Saratoga Gap, and from the Bay west to the Pacific Ocean, the peninsula offers something for everyone....