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National Parks: The American Experience

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Availability:In StockContributor:Alfred RuntePublish date:2021-12-15Pages:352
Language:EnglishPublisher:Lyons PressISBN-13:9781493061822ISBN-10:1493061828UPC:9781493061822Book Category:History, Nature, TravelBook Subcategory:United States, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Parks & CampgroundsSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCV753QY67

National Parks: The American Experience

Revised with a new epilogue, "We the People," this fifth edition of National Parks: TheAmerican Experience continues the highly engaging story of how Americans invented and expanded the concept of national parks. A prominent adviser to the Ken Burns Emmy Award-winning documentary, "The National Parks: America's Best Idea," Alfred Runte is renowned as the nation's leading historian on the meaning...

Language:EnglishPublisher:Lyons PressISBN-13:9781493061822ISBN-10:1493061828UPC:9781493061822Book Category:History, Nature, TravelBook Subcategory:United States, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Parks & CampgroundsSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCV753QY67

ALFRED RUNTE traces his interest in the national parks to a family camping trip in 1959. Twenty years later, and having earned his PhD at the University of California, Santa Barbara, he published the first edition of National Parks: The American Experience. His noted sequel, Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness, sealed Runte's reputation as America's preeminent historian of the national parks. A...

Publisher: Lyons Press

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5th Edition

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Alfred Runte

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