San Antonio College Library

First volume of series to commemorate our national trails. This particular study extends through three centuries, beginning in 1644.

Paying tribute to Ansel Adams and the California Sierra Nevada wilderness area named in his honor, a National Geographic photographer captures the fragile beauty of the High Sierras through the modern lens of digital photography.

Compares the thought processes and actions of survivors and nonsurvivors in deadly situations, presenting case studies and discussing neurological and psychological research and ancient texts on survival; and lists twelve steps most survivors take in life-and-death situations as well as trying situations in everyday life.

Tells of the friendship between Vladimir Arsenyev, a well-known Soviet explorer, and his guide, Dersu Uzala. It is the story of a man's unity with nature and of the struggle for survival in the wilderness.

"Battle for the Wilderness is one of the important works of the American conservation movement. Centered on the struggle to pass the 1964 Wilderness Act, it offers a well-written, workable definition of wilderness and presents conservation as a vital thread in American history. In a completely new preface, Michael Frome ruminates on the relative treatment of the wilderness system under successive administrations, and on recent approaches to the preservation...

Justice Douglas' book is a stirring plea for its preservation. These are areas as rich in history and legend as they are in beauty, and, as Douglas tells tales of the past and describes some of his own adventures, readers will share his dismay at the senseless devastation.

Describes the personalities, planes and experiences of bush pilots flying in the Canadian wilderness, the Australian outback, the jungles of New Guinea and Latin America and the frozen land of Alaska.