The National Parks: America's Best Idea
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (571 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B002OFDGQO |
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| Number of Pages | : | 259 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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His latest work, American Creation, was published in 2007. Ellis Reviews The National ParksEducated at the College of William and Mary and Yale University, Joseph J. The result is almost elegiac, producing the same kind of goose bumps that Burns created in his early work on the Brooklyn Bridge and the Civil War.Burns has been chronicling the American experience for over thirty years, and I think it’s fair to say that no one has influenced more living Americans to think about our history as a people and a nation. Exclusive: Joseph J. “We hold these truths”), our quasi-sacred text on human freedom, which takes on an almost spiritual resonance amidst the vistas of Yosemite or Yellowstone.Dayton Duncan, Burns's longtime colleague, has provided most of the text, which is
Melissa R said making it the perfect coffee table book for anyone who enjoys exploring our. This book is full of breathtaking images, making it the perfect coffee table book for anyone who enjoys exploring our beautiful country and its national parks.. "Nice!" according to kkwalker. Well done and wonderful book.. Mary said Five Stars. Great!
The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The WarAmerica’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation’s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but for everyone. They capture the importance and splendors of the individual parks: from Haleakala in Hawaii to Acadia in Maine, from Denali in Alaska to the Everglades in Florida, from Glacier in Montana to Big Bend in Texas. 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 recentadditions to a system that now encompasses nearly four hundred sites and 84 million acres.The authors recount the adventures, mythmaking, and intense political battles behind the evolution of the park syste