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: 9780807001844

ISBN-10: 0807001848

ISBN-13: 9780807001844

Edition: N/A

Authors: Michael Lanza

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A longtime backpacker, climber, and skier, Michael Lanza knows our national parks like the back of his hand. As a father, he hopes to share these special places with his two young children. But he has seen firsthand the changes wrought by the warming climate and understands what lies ahead: Alaska’s tidewater glaciers are rapidly retreating, and the abundant sea life in their shadow departs with them. Encroaching tides threaten beloved wilderness coasts like Washington’s Olympic and Florida’s Everglades. Less snowfall and hotter summers will diminish Yosemite’s world-famous waterfalls. And it is predicted that Glacier National Park’s 7,000-year-old glaciers will be gone in a decade. To…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 4/9/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.53" wide x 8.51" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 0.616
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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