英文原版 Where Is Mount Rushmore? 拉莫尔山在哪里英文版进口英语原版书籍

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作者: Kelley, True
出版社: Penguin Workshop
ISBN: 9780448483566

出版时间: 2015-02
装帧: 平装

作者: Kelley, True
出版社: Penguin Workshop

ISBN: 9780448483566
出版时间: 2015-02

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书名：Where Is Mount Rushmore?总统山在哪里？难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数870L 读者对象：8-12岁作者：Nico Medina 出版社名称：Grosset & Dunlap 出版时间：2015 语种：英文 ISBN：9780448483566 商品尺寸：13.5 x 0.7 x 19.4 cm 包装：平装页数：112页企鹅出版社的Where Is…?系列科普读物介绍了众多世界各地的知名景观及自然奇迹。文字浅显易懂，叙述风趣幽默，图文并茂地将每个景观的特色及相关知识，几近完整地呈现。书末另附年代表，以及折页地图一张，有助于深入理解。 From historic landmarks to natural wonders, Penguin’sWhere Is? series goes on a world tour through our globe’s most exciting places. It was world-famous sculptor Gutzon Borglum’s dream to carve sixty-foot-high likenesses of four presidents on a granite cliff in South Dakota. Does that sound like a wacky idea? Many at the time thought so. Borglum faced a lot of opposition and problems at every turn; the blasting and carving carried out through the years of the Great Depression when funding for anything was hard to come by. Yet Mount Rushmore now draws almost three million visitors to the Black Hills every year. This is an entertaining chronicle of one man’s magnificent obsession, which even today sparks controversy. WhereIs Mount Rushmore? The Black Hills The Sioux and the Gold Rush Gutzon Borglum Big Plans How to Carve Big The Big Boss Big Problems Finishing Mount Rushmore Today Timelines Bibliography True Kelley is the author-illustrator of Who Was Pablo Picasso? and the author of Who Is Dolly Parton?, Who Was Abigail Adams?, and Who Was Roald Dahl? Where Is Mount Rushmore? In 1924, the world-famous sculptor Gutzon Borglum and his thirteen-year-old son took a trip together out west. They left their home in Connecticut and, days later, got off a train in Rapid City, South Dakota. Only about six thousand people lived in Rapid City. South Dakota had been a state for only thirty-five years. The Borglums felt they were in the middle of nowhere. They actually were smack-dab in the center of the United States. Gutzon had come to South Dakota to see if he could find a mountain to carve into the biggest sculpture in the country. He was a patriotic man, and his idea was to give America a sculpture to glorify its greatness. Perhaps it could be huge carvings of great Americans with heads as high as the tallest buildings. What an amazing idea! But many people thought it was crazy. And no one, not even Borglum himself, realized how hard it would be to do. Gutzon and his son, Lincoln, traveled about twenty-five miles southwest of Rapid City to nearby Keystone, a mining town farther into the backwoods. From there, a South Dakota state forester led them on horseback, following logging trails into the wild country of the Black Hills. The Black Hills is an area 120 miles long and sixty miles wide. It rises up four thousand feet and more. It is like an island in the middle of the treeless prairie. From the rolling grasslands, the dark green ponderosa pine trees on the hills look black. With steep slopes, deep canyons, rocky ledges, and clear streams, it is rugged but very beautiful country. It is home to many animals, like elk, rattlesnakes, bison, prairie dogs, mountain lions, mountain goats, frogs, birds, and fish. There are medicinal and edible plants, wild raspberries, and flowers. It’s no wonder the Lakota Sioux called it sacred land. The Borglum party clambered up steep, craggy slopes to the top of the tallest mountain, Harney Peak. All around was a wonderful view. Far away, Gutzon could see a granite mountain. It stood higher than the surrounding peaks. That would be the place for his giant sculpture! The name of the mountain was Mount Rushmore. Today, huge six-story-high carved heads of presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln gaze out from high on the granite face of Mount Rushmore. Borglum overcame an incredible number of obstacles to create this great national monument. He said it was like waging a one-man war. With his combined drive and talent, he was probably the only man of his time who could have succeeded. For many reasons, it would be impossible to do such a project today. Mount Rushmore is a major tourist attraction for South Dakota. It has become a symbol of patriotism and pride for many Americans. But people from all over the world travel to marvel at it. Even so, there are people who think it should not ever have been made. Chapter 1: The Black Hills Throughout history the Black Hills, rising dramatically from the Great Plains, have impressed all who’ve seen them. They are called hills, but they are the highest mountains east of the Rockies . . . and west of the Alps! Harney Peak, at 7,242 feet, is the tallest. The Black Hills are some of the oldest hills in North America: sixty million years old. French trappers named them C?tes Noires; that means Black Sides. The Lakota Sioux called them Paha Sapa—the sacred mountains and place of spirits. How did these hills get plopped in the middle of the plains around them? More than two billion years ago, there were only layers of sand, clay, and gravel deep beneath an ancient sea. Over many years, they turned into sedimentary—or layered—rock. Heat and pressure changed it into a type of rock called mica schist. Then, 1.5 billion years ago, hot liquid rock oozed from below and joined with the mica to make granite. Sediment piled on top of that. Seventy million years ago, at the time of the dinosaurs, the molten granite rock was still below the surface of the earth. Over thousands of years, the rock cooled and rose up. The Black Hills were born. As the sea dried, wind, ice, and rain wore away the sediment on top of the granite core. Beautiful stone towers like the Needles emerged. Gutzon Borglum knew the granite of these hills was great for sculpting. There were pockets of schist material inside the rock that were not so good, however. The schist could cause some trouble for a sculptor. Also embedded in the rock in parts of the Black Hills were precious metals like silver, tin, and gold. At 6,040 feet, Mount Rushmore is taller than the mountains around it. The Lakota Sioux called it “Six Grandfathers.” Later, settlers named it Cougar Mountain, Sugarloaf Mountain, Slaughterhouse Mountain, and Keystone Cliffs. In the end, it came to be named for a New York lawyer, Charles E. Rushmore. How strange! Charles was on business for a tin company in the Black Hills. In 1885 he was staying in a log cabin in the hills. He asked his guide what the mountain was called. The guide answered that he didn’t know, so it must be Mount Rushmore! It was a joke! But the name stuck. 1234567
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