[PDF.50tx] National Parks: The American Experience, 4th Edition

National Parks: The American Experience, 4th Edition

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 | #304892 in Books |  2010-03-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.08 x.79 x6.11l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 336 pages

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||6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| A very good but not definitive history of the national parks|By Arthur Digbee|This book provides a good history of the national parks. The first chapters on the history of the national park idea and the national park system are particularly interesting and well-written. Runte emphasizes "cultural nationalism" as an explanation for the park idea, the notion that American cultu| |Like John Muir, Al Runte has felt the siren call of our saved—and sacred—places, and, like John Muir, he has found a way to share their glories with power and poetry. This is a sensitive, well-written history of our land and the complicated people

Completely revised for its fourth edition, National Parks: The American Experience tells 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 and management of these treasured lands.  Lavishly illustrated with p...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.National Parks: The American Experience, 4th Edition   |  Alfred Runte. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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