National parks : the American experience / Alfred Runte.
Material type: TextPublication details: Lanham, Md. : Taylor Trade Publishing, 2010.Edition: 4th edDescription: xviii, 307 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781589794733 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9781589794757 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1589794737 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1589794753 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9781589794740 (electronic)
- 1589794745 (electronic)
- 973 22
- E160 .R78 2010
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Circulating Books | Pennsylvania Horticultural Society | Main Collection | E160 .R78 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 3182700018506 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-296) and index.
Prologue: Paradise lost -- The American West -- Yellowstone -- Worthless lands -- The march of monumentalism -- See America first -- Complete conservation -- Ecology denied -- Schemers and standard-bearers -- Tradition triumphant -- The lesson of the big trees -- Ideals and controversies of expansion -- Decision in Alaska -- Into the twenty-first century : encirclement and uncertainty -- Epilogue: The future of national parks.