San Francisco Chronicle list of The 20th Century's 100 Best Nonfiction of the American West

25 obres 47,660 Llibres 762 Ressenyes 4.2
The Chronicle Western 100 in nonfiction the best books of the 20th century written in or about, or by an author from, the Western United States. Based on a reader poll.

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Categories:
Tots, 30 (1), No Category (24)
Years:
Tots, 1999 (24)
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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness de Edward Abbey
1999
The Land of Little Rain de Mary Austin
1999
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee de Dee Brown
1999
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles de Mike Davis
1999
The White Album de Joan Didion
1999
This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind de Ivan Doig
1999
The Solace of Open Spaces de Gretel Ehrlich
1999
Great Plains de Ian Frazier
1999
Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places de Ursula K. Le Guin
1999
The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience de J. S. Holliday
1999
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There de Aldo Leopold
1999
The Big Four: The Story of Huntington, Stanford, Hopkins, and Crocker, and of the Building of the Central Pacific de Oscar Lewis
1999
Arctic Dreams de Barry Lopez
1999
Assembling California de John McPhee
1999
My First Summer in the Sierra de John Muir
1999
Bad Land: An American Romance de Jonathan Raban
1999
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water de Marc Reisner
1999
Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas de Mari Sandoz
1999
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic de Randy Shilts
1999
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West de Wallace Stegner
1999
The Log from the Sea of Cortez de John Steinbeck
1999
Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party de George R. Stewart
1999
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind de Shunryu Suzuki
1999
The Great Plains de Walter Prescott Webb
1999
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts de Maxine Hong Kingston
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