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Vanishing giants ; the story of the sequoias
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These giant trees stretch more than 300 feet above the ground, with hidden gardens and mysterious predators thriving within their canopy. Obsessive redwood climber Steve Sillett of Humboldt State University investigates their monster crowns, tallying biological material and discovering new record-breaking trees, while escaping falling branches and crashing trees in the process. Explorer-in-Residence Mike Fay charts the redwood range.
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The auk, the dodo, and the oryx ; vanished and vanishing creatures
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An historical record of the existence and extinction of those animals lost as a result of man's habitation and civilization on earth, with a summary of conservation efforts today
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Scientists and scoundrels ; a book of hoaxes
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Exposes the hoaxes which scientists have devised to deceive their peers and explains the scientific background against which these hoaxes appeared and the detective work leading to their discovery
475894
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Exposes the hoaxes which scientists have devised to deceive their peers and explains the scientific background against which these hoaxes appeared and the detective work leading to their discovery
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Starman's quest
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The complicated problem of time lags and speedups in space travel brings about a conflict between twin brothers
475911
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Photographic views of California and the West, bulk (approximately 1895-approximately 1900)
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A disbound photograph album containing 129 photographs by commercial photographers of tourist sites in California and the American West, particularly of the California Missions, the Grand Canyon, and Salt Lake City, Utah. Among the missions shown are Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, Mission San Juan Capistrano, and Mission San Carmel. There are also views of "Lucky" Baldwin's Ranch in Altadena, California; various places in Pasadena and Los Angeles, California; landscape views of Antelope Valley and San Bernardino Valley in California; enormous sequoia trees in central and northern California; and various tourist attractions including the Great Cable Incline of the Mount Lowe Railway and the home of Ramona, the heroine of Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel of the same name. There are photographs of Native Americans who are identified as 135, 107, and 105 years old, and one photograph of an "Indian Papoose". At the end of the album there are photographs of the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, the Salt Lake City and County Building, and one portrait each of Brigham Young and one of his wives, Amelia Folsome Young. Notable photographs include an image of a Chinese man standing on a front porch by C.B. Waite titled "785. Transplanted," a photograph of a photographer's horse-drawn wagon below a giant redwood titled "No. 240 Grizzly Giant, Mariposa, Cal." Many of the photographs have the "Park & Co. Photo" imprint of Los Angeles photographer Frank L. Park, and there are also photographs by others including Charles Ironmonger (chiefly of the California missions), F. H. Maude, C. R. Savage, and C. B. Waite.
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