The national parks : America's best idea : an illustrated history
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307268969 :
- ISBN: 0307268969
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Physical Description:
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xix, 403 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 29 cm. + 1 col. map/poster (39 x 54 cm., folded to 27 x 20 cm.) - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Maps on endpapers. "Based on a film by Ken Burns, produced by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns, written by Dayton Duncan." |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-390) and index. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Erlanger Branch | 333.783 D911n 2009 (Text) | 33126015255262 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Summary:
In this evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative, Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan delve into the history of the park idea, from the first sighting by white men in 1851 of the valley that would become Yosemite and the creation of the world's first national park at Yellowstone in 1872, through the most recent additions to a system that now encompasses nearly four hundred sites and 84 million acres.