Wallace Stegner
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"The essays, memoirs, letters, and speeches in this volume were written over a period of twenty-five years, a time in which the West witnessed rapid changes to its cultural and natural heritage, and Wallace Stegner emerged as an important conservationist and novelist. This collection is divided into two sections: the first features eloquent sketches of the West's history and environment, directing our imagination to the sublime beauty of such places...
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Everyman's library volume no. 531
American Authors in Prose and Poetry volume 4
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Everyman's library volume no. 531
American Authors in Prose and Poetry volume 4
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Collects brief fictional works and legends by the nineteenth-century New England literary master.
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Tracing North American Exploration from Balboa to Lewis and Clark, Devoto tells in a classic fashion how the drama of discovery defined the American nation. The Course of Empire is the third volume in historian Bernard Devotoʹs monumental trilogy of the West. Entertaining and incisive, this is the dramatic story of three hundred years of exploration of North America leading up to 1805.