Before They're Gone A Family's Year-Long Quest to Explore America's Most Endangered National Parks

Name: Before They're Gone A Family's Year-Long Quest to Explore America's Most Endangered National Parks
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ISBN: 9780807001196

ISBN-10: 0807001198

ISBN-13: 9780807001196

Edition: 2012

Authors: Michael Lanza

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A lifelong backpacker, Michael Lanza knows our national parks like the back of his hand. As a father of two, he hopes to share these special places with his kids. But he has seen firsthand the changes wrought by global warming and understands what lies ahead: melting glaciers, disappearing species, and inundated coastlines. To Lanza, it feels like the house he grew up in is being looted. Painfully aware of the ecological--and spiritual--calamity that global warming will bring to our nation's parks, Lanza is determined to show his children these wonders before they have changed forever.He takes his nine-year-old son, Nate, and seven-year-old daughter, Alex, on an ambitious journey to see as…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 4/3/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 5.80" wide x 8.80" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Prologue: Inspiration



Deepest Earth



How Does the Water Go Up the Mountain?



The Distant Rumble of White Thunder



In the Long Shadow of "The Mountain"



Along a Wild Coast



The Backbone of the World



If a Tree Falls



Searching for Dr. Seuss



The End of Winter



Going Under


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


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