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This seemingly harsh, but actually beautiful—and fragile—landscape cannot even be seen, much less appreciated, at seventy miles per hour. You have to dismount your Ford and investigate it on foot. If you cannot do so, Trimble’s survey is the next best thing. His writing style is first-person informal (almost conversational), but informed. . . . The Sagebrush Ocean is so well done that it will probably become at least a minor classic of Western nature writing.
Noted writer and photographer Stephen Trimble mixes eloquent accounts of personal experiences with clear explication of natural history. His photographs capture some of the most spectacular but least-known scenery in the western states. The Great Basin Desert sweeps from the Sierra to the Rockies, from the Snake River Plain to the Mojave Desert. ""Biogeography"" would be one way to sum up Trimble's focus on the land: what lives where, and why. He introduces concepts of desert ecology and discusses living communities of animals and plants that band Great Basin mountains--from the exhilarating emptiness of dry lake-beds to alpine regions at the summits of the 13,000-foot Basin ranges. This is the best general introduction to the ecology and spirit of the Great Basin, a place where ""the desert almost seems to mirror the sky in size,"" where mountains hold ""ravens, bristlecone pines, winter stillness--and unseen, but satisfying, the possibility of bighorn sheep."" Trimble's photographs come from the backcountry of this rugged land, from months of exploring and hiking the Great Basin wilderness in all seasons; and his well-chosen words come from a rare intimacy with the West. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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1) "Alistair Cooke sent one of the film crews for his television series 'America' to the stretch of U.S. Highway 50 that winds across the central Great Basin mountains and deserts. He asked them to shoot whatever looked interesting--particularly ghost towns--between Ely and Sparks, Nevada. Their report: 'Everything looks like East St. Louis.'" (p. vii)
2) "About eight thousand years ago, a sudden increase in temperature started in the Mojave/Sonoran deserts, creating a wave of effects that spread northward through the Great Basin from 7500 to 4500 years ago. This was the Hypsithermal. . . . It was a worldwide event. . . . The extremes of the Hypsithermal increased the mean annual Great Basin temperature about 4.5 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit over today's averages." (pp. 50, 51.) ( )