Best of
Geography

1983

Vietnam Perkasie: A Combat Marine Memoir


W.D. Ehrhart - 1983
    Ehrhart: "As a poet and editor, Bill Ehrhart is clearly one of the major figures in Vietnam War literature." This autobiographical account of the war, the author's first extended prose work, demonstrates Ehrhart's abilities as a writer of prose as well. Vietnam-Perkasie is grim, comical, disturbing, and accurate. The presentation is novelistic—truly, a "page-turner"—but the events are all real, the atmosphere intensely evocative.

Poldark's Cornwall


Winston Graham - 1983
    This book provides illustrations of the Cornish setting. Its manor houses, ruins, paths, views, towns related to the Poldark saga.

The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution


David Rains Wallace - 1983
    The author's new epilogue makes a case for the creation of a new park to safeguard this exceptionally rich storehouse of relict species and evolutionary stories, which has largely been bypassed by conservationists since John Muir.

Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century


Wolfgang Schivelbusch - 1983
    Not simply a history of a technology, Disenchanted Night reveals the ways that the technology of artificial illumination helped forge modern consciousness. In his strikingly illustrated and lively narrative, Schivelbusch discusses a range of subject including the political symbolism of streetlamps, the rise of nightlife and the shopwindow, and the importance of the salon in bourgeois culture.

London Encyclopaedia


Christopher Hibbert - 1983
    In its first new edition in more than 10 years, completely revised and updated, it comprises some 6,000 entries, organized alphabetically, cross-referenced, and supported by two large indexesLondon is documented, whether vanished or extant, from its first settlement to the present day.

The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War


Calvin D. Cowles - 1983
    This is a 2003 re-printing by Barns & Noble Publishing Inc. of the 1983 Arno Press Inc. and Crown Publishers Inc printing. Unlike other versions it has the plates numbered in Arabic and not Roman Numerals which is much easier to search.

A Battlefield Atlas of the Civil War


Craig L. Symonds - 1983
    Ideal for battlefield tours, the 43 two-color, full page maps highlight the critical military positions and communicate the changing nature of the war. The description accompanying each map enables the reader to relive the action of battle and sense the drama it held for the troops that fought in the world's first total war.The author exploreres the personalities of the commanders on each side and explains the rationale behind the battlefield decisions. In addition, each narrative details the strength of each side, the losses suffered, and the strategic consequences of the battles.The maps are divided into four groups, each of which constitute a chapter in the history of the war: the Amatuer War saw civilian volunteer armies slug it out at Bull Run and Shiloh; the Organized War saw the emergence of managers of war like George B. McClellan (who could administer, but who was loath to fight) as well as the rise of Robert E. Lee; the period of Confederate High Tide in 1863 saw Southern hopes crest only to collapse again after Gettysburg and Vicksburg; and ultimately the era of Total War witnessed the complete metamorphosis of the war from its chivalric beginnings to it emergence as the world's first unlimited war under the leadership of Grant and Sherman. A short introductory essay precedes each section, accompanied by contemporary photographs and drawings that portray America's greatest military conflict.

Silent Violence: Food, Famine, & Peasantry in Northern Nigeria


Michael J. Watts - 1983
    

U.S. 40 Today: Thirty Years of Landscape Change in America


Thomas R. Vale - 1983
    Highway 40, from Atlantic City to San Francisco, has changed since 1953.

Sky and Earth


Time-Life Books - 1983
    An activities section is included.

Wayfarers of the Thai Forest: The Akha


F. Gunfield - 1983
    

Masked Dancers of West Africa: The Dogon


S. Pern - 1983
    

Field Guide to the Cascades and Olympics


Stephen Whitney - 1983
    California through SW British Columbia.

Guardians of the North-West Frontier: The Pathans


André Singer - 1983