The quiet world : saving Alaska's wilderness kingdom, 1879-1960 / Douglas Brinkley.
A tribute to Alaska's wilderness regions details key preservation activities, leading contributors, and historical events.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harper Perennial,
[2012], ©2012.
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| Edition: | First Harper Perennial edition. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 576 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm |
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Saving Alaska's wilderness kingdom, 1879-1960. |
| Format: | Book |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages [509]-550) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Odyssey of the snowy owl -- Theodore Roosevelt's conservation doctrine -- The Pinchot-Ballinger feud -- Bull Moose crusade -- Charles Sheldon's fierce fight -- Our vanishing wildlife -- The Lake Clark pact -- Resurrection Bay of Rockwell Kent -- The new wilderness generation -- Warren G. Harding : backlash -- Bob Marshall and the gates of the Arctic -- Those amazing Muries -- Will the wolf survive? -- William O. Douglas and New Deal conservation -- Ansel Adams, Wonder Lake, and the lady bush pilots -- Pribilof seals, Walt Disney, and the arctic wolves of Lois Crisler -- The Arctic Range and Aldo Leopold -- The Sheenjek Expedition of 1956 -- Dharma wilderness -- Of hoboes, barefooters, and the open road -- Sea Otter Jones and Musk-Ox Matthiessen -- Rachel Carson's alarm -- Selling the Arctic Refuge -- Arctic forever. | |
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