San Francisco Chronicle list of The 20th Century's 100 Best Nonfiction of the American West

25 opere 48,103 libri 765 recensioni 4.2
The Chronicle Western 100 in nonfiction the best books of the 20th century written in or about, or by an author from, the Western United States. Based on a reader poll.

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Categorie:
Tutto, 30 (1), Nessuna categoria (24)
Anni:
Tutto, 1999 (24)
OperaCategoriaAnno
Deserto solitario : una stagione nei territori selvaggi di Edward Abbey
1999
The Land of Little Rain di Mary Austin
1999
Seppellite il mio cuore a Wounded Knee di Dee Brown
1999
Citta di quarzo: indagando sul futuro a Los Angeles di Mike Davis
1999
The White Album di Joan Didion
1999
This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind di Ivan Doig
1999
The Solace of Open Spaces di Gretel Ehrlich
1999
Great Plains di Ian Frazier
1999
Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places di Ursula K. Le Guin
1999
The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience di J. S. Holliday
1999
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There di Aldo Leopold
1999
The Big Four: The Story of Huntington, Stanford, Hopkins, and Crocker, and of the Building of the Central Pacific di Oscar Lewis
1999
Artico: l'ultimo paradiso di Barry Lopez
1999
Assembling California di John McPhee
1999
My First Summer in the Sierra di John Muir
1999
Bad land: una favola americana di Jonathan Raban
1999
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water di Marc Reisner
1999
Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas di Mari Sandoz
1999
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic di Randy Shilts
1999
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West di Wallace Stegner
1999
The Log from the Sea of Cortez di John Steinbeck
1999
Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party di George R. Stewart
1999
Mente Zen, mente di principiante: discorsi sulla meditazione e la pratica di Shunryu Suzuki
1999
The Great Plains di Walter Prescott Webb
1999
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts di Maxine Hong Kingston
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