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Pacific high : adventures in the coast ranges from Baja to Alaska /

"On a promising January morning, the first day of a new year, writer Tim Palmer and his wife set out in their custom-outfitted van on a nine-month journey through the Pacific Coast Range, the ribbon of rugged landscape lining the sunset edge of our continent. With a route stretching from the dr...

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Main Author: Palmer, Tim, 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington : Island Press, c2002.
Subjects:
Palmer, Tim, > 1948- > Travel > Coast Ranges.
Mountains > Pacific Coast (U.S.)
Coast Ranges > Description and travel.
Pacific Coast (U.S.) > Description and travel.
United States > Description and travel.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Between the Sea and the Sky
  • ix
  • Chapter 1
  • Into Baja
  • 3
  • Chapter 2
  • The Volcan and the Mexican Desert
  • 29
  • Chapter 3
  • Borderlands and Refuges
  • 49
  • Chapter 4
  • Rising Above Los Angeles
  • 81
  • Chapter 5
  • Mountains and Fire
  • 101
  • Chapter 6
  • A Dream of Condors
  • 133
  • Chapter 7
  • The People's Mountains
  • 163
  • Chapter 8
  • The North Coast
  • 201
  • Chapter 9
  • Kalmiopsis to the Columbia
  • 239
  • Chapter 10
  • Olympic Odyssey
  • 271
  • Chapter 11
  • The Island of a Different Nation
  • 297
  • Chapter 12
  • Northward by Boat
  • 327
  • Chapter 13
  • Glaciers to the Sea
  • 347
  • Chapter 14
  • The Ultimate Mountains
  • 379
  • Chapter 15
  • Across the Icefield
  • 411
  • Chapter 16
  • To the Ends of the Earth
  • 421.

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