The Quiet World
Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960
New York : Harper, [2011]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: x, 576 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
A tribute to Alaska's wilderness regions details key preservation activities, leading contributors, and historical events.
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.
Subjects:
Nature conservation -- Alaska -- History.
Environmental protection -- Alaska -- History.
Conservationists -- Alaska -- History.
Nature conservation -- Alaska -- History.
Environmental protection -- Alaska -- History.
Conservationists -- Alaska -- History.
ISBN:
9780062005960
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SCIENCE Conserve Bri | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [509]-550) and index.