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Yosemite and Sequoia
A Century of California National Parks
Av Marlene Smith-Baranzini, Alfred Runte m. fl.
E-bok, 1990
347 kr
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A century and a quarter ago, the national park idea was born when Abraham Lincoln signed legislation setting aside Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias "for public use, resort, and recreation inalienable for all time." Over the next decade, the Yosemite park commissioners had to …
Yosemite
The Embattled Wilderness
Av Alfred Runte
E-bok, 2020
319 kr
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How should a national park be managed? Among all of the debates affecting America’s national parks, none has proved more enduring. Nor has any park, Alfred Runte reminds us, been in the spotlight more than Yosemite. Its cast of characters is especially rich, including James Mason Hutchings, Galen …
National Parks
The American Experience
Av Alfred Runte
E-bok, 2021
319 kr
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Revised with a new epilogue, “We the People,” this fifth edition of National Parks: TheAmerican Experience continues the highly engaging story of how Americans invented and expanded the concept of national parks. A prominent adviser to the Ken Burns Emmy Award-winning documentary, "The National …
Trains for Nature
Railroads and the American Land
Av Alfred Runte
Häftad, 2025
293 kr
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What did America lose with the decline of the passenger train? Much more than most Americans think, observes Alfred Runte, a leading historian of our national parks. Including parks and wilderness, the greatest loss has been to the American land. No technology was ever more respectful—protective—of …
Trains for Nature
Railroads and the American Land
Av Alfred Runte
E-bok, 2025
287 kr
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Discover how America's abandoned passenger trains hold the key to preserving our nation's scenic treasures and wilderness landscapes. In this timely and provocative work, renowned environmental historian Alfred Runte challenges our blind embrace of highways and airports, revealing how the decline …
Yosemite
The Embattled Wilderness
Av Alfred Runte
Häftad, 2020
276 kr
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This history of the first large land area to be set aside for preservation and public use by Congress follows Yosemite from its early Native American inhabitants, exploration, establishment as a national park in 1890, and through such controversial developments as Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, the Badger …
Trains of Discovery
Railroads and the Legacy of Our National Parks
Av Alfred Runte
Häftad, 2011
298 kr
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