American Idea The Making of the National Parks

Name: American Idea The Making of the National Parks
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ISBN: 9781426205637

ISBN-10: 1426205635

ISBN-13: 9781426205637

Edition: 2009

Authors: Kim Heacox, Jimmy Carter

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The national park system ranks among our most magnificent achievements and the story of its creation reveals how the American landscape shaped our history and character and continues to do so almost 175 years after painter George Catlin first proposed "a nation's Park." In these lavishly illustrated pages, award-winning author Kim Heacox chronicles our changing visions of wildness from the 17th century, when the first settlers built towns around shared commons, to 1916, when the National Park Service initiated a new kind of commonunspoiled parkland held in trust for Americans everywhere. Here are explorers like Daniel Boone, Kit Carson, and John Wesley Powell, who reported wonders so…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Publication date: 9/8/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.87" wide x 10.00" long x 0.45" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Kim Heacox is the award-winning author and photographer of close to 20 photography and essay books. As the principal photographer for the Smithsonian Guides to Natural America: The Pacific: Hawai'i, and Alaska, Heacox shot over 150 beautiful full-color photos of parks, wilderness preserves, nature sanctuaries, and scenic wonders. In her book Visions of Wild America: Pioneers of Preservation, Heacox wove the incredible adventures, epiphanies, and successes of important conservationists with their own quotes to present a well-rounded picture of Wild America. Other books produced by Heacox include Alaska's Inside Passage: Photography and Essays, Antarctica: The Last Continent, Alaska's… National Parks, and Iditarod Spirit.