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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brinkley, Douglas
Language:English
Published: New York : Harper Perennial, [2012], ©2012.
Edition:First Harper Perennial edition.
Subjects:
Nature conservation > Alaska > History.
Environmental protection > Alaska > History.
Conservationists > Alaska > History.
Physical Description:xiv, 576 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm
Variant Title:
Saving Alaska's wilderness kingdom, 1879-1960.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.