Death Valley : a guide / written and compiled by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration of Northern California ; sponsored by the Bret Harte Associates.

Title & Author:

Death Valley : a guide / written and compiled by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration of Northern California ; sponsored by the Bret Harte Associates.

Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, [1939]
©1939

Description:

xv, 75 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, folded map ; 25 cm

Series:

American guide series

Notes:
"The Riverside Press Cambridge."
Folded map of Death Valley tipped in following text.
Includes bibliographical references (page 71) and index.
Sponsor's letter / Charles Caldwell Dobie, President, Bret Harte Associates -- Foreword / James Hopper, Director, Federal Writers' Project for Northern California -- General information -- I. Death Valley: Geology ; Climate ; Flora ; Fauna ; History ; Borax -- II. Main highways -- III. Rough roads.

Summary:

Guide book for Death Valley visitors, with history, geology, climate, flora, fauna, main highways, and rough roads. Well illustrated.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0404579027
9780404579029

Subject:

Automobile travel Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.) Guidebooks.
Voyages en automobile Mort, Vallée de la (Calif. et Nev.) Guides.
Automobile travel
Travel
Deserts United States Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.) 1930-1940.
Dunes United States Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.) 1930-1940.
Death Valley National Park (Calif. and Nev.) Guidebooks.
Death Valley National Park (Calif. and Nev.) Description and travel.
Nevada Description and travel.
California Description and travel.
Death Valley National Park (Calif. and Nev.)
Californie Descriptions et voyages.
Death Valley National Park (Calif. et Nev.)
Nevada Descriptions et voyages.
Death Valley National Park (Calif. et Nev.) Guides.
Death Valley National Park (Calif. et Nev.) Descriptions et voyages.
California
Nevada
United States Death Valley
United States Death Valley National Park

Form/genre:

Guidebook
travel guidebooks.
Guidebooks
Books.
Guides touristiques.

Added entries:

Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration of Northern California, author, compiler.
Federal Writers' Project.
Bret Harte Associates, sponsoring body.
Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.)
American guide series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318057
Call No.: 318057
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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