1990, ISBN: 9780394577241

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Toronto: William Bryce, 1888 . Revised & Enlarged edition. Hardcover. Good. 60 views on 57 litho plates. Folding map: "Map of the Dominion of Canada Showing Railway Connections… Mehr…

Toronto: William Bryce, 1888 . Revised & Enlarged edition. Hardcover. Good. 60 views on 57 litho plates. Folding map: "Map of the Dominion of Canada Showing Railway Connections from Atlantic To Pacific". Oblong 32mo, 57pp., grey-blue pictorial scenic cloth, needs to be recased. two short, closed tears in margin of the folding map. Issued as Bryce's Tourists' Illustrated Handbook to the Canadian Dominion. This work, dated December, 1888, reproduces Queen Victoria's commendatory note for Mr. Bryce done May 2, 1889. Excellent views across Canada, including the Falls of Niagara., William Bryce, 1888, 2.5, New York: Knopf, 1990. First edition. hardcover. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Briefly inscribed on the title page by the author. A mesmerizing ode to the Pacific Northwest, convincing us that the wilderness is a source of "renewal"--if we will only stop treating "paradise" like a "vacant lot." "To see what a century can produce from scratch," Egan retraces a journey made in 1853 by young New Englander Theodore Winthrop through wilderness that is now Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. In a book about his trip, The Canoe and the Saddle, Winthrop predicted that this "strong, savage and majestic" land would produce a "full growth of the American Idea." Egan's riveting travelogue (which includes maps, not seen) surveys what civilization (in places like Seattle and rose-filled Victoria) has brought about since the time of the "prophetic" Winthrop, while taking in the incredibly varied drama of this landscape (from the "incorrigible breakers" of the Columbia River Bar to the primeval Olympic Rain Forest and the North Cascades' "museum of ice"). A New York Times reporter and Northwest native, Egan writes about this land and "its icons--salmon and trees and mountains and water" with the nightmare of urban traffic at his heels. Street-smart and image-stocked prose animates landscape where water is "the master architect" and giant trees are falling in today's timber boom "like a retreating army in winter." Egan alerts us to the cries of slaughter still echoing from the white man's wilderness rampage, which left native tribes decimated, land stripped, and water poisoned. We feel the loss of sea otters, harbor seals, wolves, and salmon (the "soul" of the rivers), and see the madness of continually leveling 62,000 acres a year of ancient, irreplaceable forests. "Winthrop thought the land here would change a man, not the other way around," Egan writes. ". . .We have yet to prove him entirely wrong." Glimpsing "exalted life in the iced pinnacles," readers from any landscape will respond to Egan's timely, pantheistic call, Knopf, 1990, 4<

ISBN: 9780394577241

Knopf. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy… Mehr…

Knopf. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included., Knopf, 2.5<