LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jon humboldt gates

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  • Falk’s Claim
    Jon H Gates / Jon Humboldt Gates
    Nominated for the Forest History Award, Falk’s Claim chronicles a California north coast redwood lumber community from it’s bustling early days in the 1890’s though it’s decline to a ghost town in the 1950s. Told through personal histories, it is a vivid portrait of a disappearing way of life in small rural communities. Richly illustrated with more than 60 black and white photo...
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    11,86 €

  • Night Crossings
    Jon H. Gates / Jon Humboldt Gates
    At night, a harbor entrance becomes a dark and unpredictable corridor. One of the most dangerous harbor crossings in North America is the entrance to Humboldt Bay, on the California North Coast. For years, mariners have traded tales of shipwrecks and narrow escapes on the bar. The five stories retold here occurred between 1933 and 1982. They are based on recollections of sailor...
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    14,47 €

  • Firestorm
    Jon H. Gates / Jon Humboldt Gates
    A personal memoir in the aftermath of the 2017 Tubbs Wildfire in Sonoma County California that burned 5600 homes, 36,000 acres, left 22 people dead and thousands homeless. In verse form, the volume of vignettes captures the terror, confusion, anger, loss, impotence and disconnection wrought by the North Bay Fires on one couple and their community and, ultimately their resolve a...
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    12,78 €