The hour of land a personal topography of America's national parks
"For years, America's national parks have provided public breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why close to 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now, to honor the centennial of the National Park Service, Terry Tempest Williams, the a...
| Main Author: | Williams, Terry Tempest. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- A Poetic Crossing
- Mapping the Territory
- Introduction: By Definition : America's National Parks
- Keep promise : Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
- All this is what the wind knows : Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota
- What more shall we do to others : To otherness : Gulf Islands National Seashore, Florida & Mississippi
- "The stones, the steel, the galaxaies" : Acadia National Park, Maine
- "There is no prevailing" : Gettysburg National Battlefield, Pennsylvania
- Death yes but as a gathering : Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa
- Any wind will tell you : Big Bend National Park, Texas
- There is no private space : Gates of the Arctic National Park
- We Are In Some Strange Wind Says the Wind : Canyonlands National Park, Utah
- The bodies are all gone from it, the purchases have been made : Alcatraz Island, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California
- It is so extreme this taking-the-place-of, this standing-in-for, this disappearing of all : Glacier National Park, Montana
- I say to myself keep on, it will not be the end, not yet, my children sleep, not yet : Cesar Chavez National Monument and the future
- Gallery.