| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 275 pages) |
| Contents |
SHOOTING POLARIS -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PROLOGUE -- Where I Surveyed, and What I Surveyed For -- Running Line on Nipple Bench -- The Polygamist's Bar and Cafe -- Modern Methods -- Friday Night in the Virgin Narrows -- Visitors -- Bearing Objects -- Family Men -- The View from Navajo Mountain -- Hiking In, and Hiking Out -- The Polygamist Holds Forth -- Shooting Polaris -- EPILOGUE -- A B O U T T H E AUTHOR |
| Summary |
"Memoir of surveying for the BLM in the Utah Desert. Reflects on man's relationship to nature and work, the Mormon Church and the settling of the West, the idealistic legacy of the sixties, the controversy over Glen Canyon Dam, and the often antagonistic relationship of American capitalism to ecological management"--Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Hales, John, 1952-
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| SUBJECT |
Hales, John, 1952-
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Hales, John, 1952- fast |
| Subject |
Surveyors -- United States -- Biography
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Surveying -- Utah -- History -- 20th century
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Surveying.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
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Surveying
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Surveyors
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United States
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Utah
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| Genre/Form |
autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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History
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0826264956 |
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9780826264954 |
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