Shooting Polaris
Subtitle: A Personal Survey in the American West
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: November 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780826216168
Subjects: Biography: general; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; United States; History; Biography / Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; English; Biography/Autobiography; Surveying; Personal Memoirs; Regional Subjects - West; Utah; General; 20th century; Biography; Surveyors
First sentence: I worked summers as a government surveyor through most of the 1970s, an employee of the Utah office of the Cadastral Survey, an obscure arm of the federal government responsible for extending and maintaining the rectangular subdivision of America.
Description: "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.