Grand Canyon to Hearst Ranch: One Woman's Fight to Save Land in the American West - Couverture rigide

Austin, Elizabeth

 
9781493048342: Grand Canyon to Hearst Ranch: One Woman's Fight to Save Land in the American West
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ISBN 10 : 1493048341 ISBN 13 : 9781493048342
Editeur : TwoDot, 2020

Synopsis

Finalist for the 2020 WILLA Literary Award, Creative Nonfiction

Inspired by her first breathtaking trip in the Grand Canyon, Harriet Hunt Burgess dedicated her life to saving land for future generations. Beginning in the 1970s, she persevered through four decades—overcoming daunting obstacles and taking extraordinary risks—to conserve hundreds of thousands of acres of land in the American West.Without Burgess, iconic and irreplaceable landscapes like the Lake Tahoe region and the California coast would be much different today. As Harriet Burgess once explained, “The land we save is our legacy. It’s what we give to our children.”

The Grand Canyon was the catalyst for Harriet’s conservation mission and the spark for Grand Canyon to Hearst Ranch. Author Elizabeth Austin has interwoven her own exhilarating and life-changing dory trip through the depths of the Grand Canyon with the compelling story of Harriet’s early life and five of her most significant conservation achievements as founder-president of the American Land Conservancy.

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À propos de l'auteur

Elizabeth Austin is uniquely qualified to tell Harriet’s story. She has had unrestricted access to the files of Harriet’s organization, the American Land Conservancy (ALC). She enjoys the friendship and assistance of Harriet’s eldest daughter who spent many years working for her mother at ALC. She has had the full cooperation of Harriet’s family.

Elizabeth already knew or was able to meet many of Harriet’s friends and business associates including Martin Litton, Bruce Babbitt, and Steve Hearst. Her husband, Russell Austin, was Harriet’s longtime advisor as well as ALC’s attorney. Like Harriet, Elizabeth has traveled through the Grand Canyon in a dory on the Colorado River.

Elizabeth Austin is an experienced librarian and historian with master’s degrees in both fields and one book, To Be the Change You Wish to See (2d ed., Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley Public Policy Press, 2017), already published. For more information, visit www.elizabethaustinauthor.com.

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Éditeur
TwoDot
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1493048341
ISBN 13 
9781493048342
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
432
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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