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The hour of land  : a personal topography of America's national parks  Cover Image E-book E-book

The hour of land : a personal topography of America's national parks / Terry Tempest Williams.

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  • ISBN: 0374712263
  • ISBN: 9780374712266
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 pages)
  • Publisher: New York : Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
  • Formatted Contents: A Poetic Crossing -- Mapping the Territory -- Introduction: By Definition : America's National Parks -- Keep promise : Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming -- All this is what the wind knows : Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota -- What more shall we do to others : To otherness : Gulf Islands National Seashore, Florida & Mississippi -- "The stones, the steel, the galaxaies" : Acadia National Park, Maine -- "There is no prevailing" : Gettysburg National Battlefield, Pennsylvania -- Death yes but as a gathering : Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa -- Any wind will tell you : Big Bend National Park, Texas -- There is no private space : Gates of the Arctic National Park -- We Are In Some Strange Wind Says the Wind : Canyonlands National Park, Utah -- The bodies are all gone from it, the purchases have been made : Alcatraz Island, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California -- It is so extreme this taking-the-place-of, this standing-in-for, this disappearing of all : Glacier National Park, Montana -- I say to myself keep on, it will not be the end, not yet, my children sleep, not yet : Cesar Chavez National Monument and the future -- Gallery.
  • Source of Description, Etc.: Print version record.
Subject: United States -- Environmental conditions
Human ecology -- United States -- Philosophy
Natural history -- United States
Williams, Terry Tempest -- Travel -- United States
Landscapes -- Social aspects -- United States
National parks and reserves -- Social aspects -- United States
National parks and reserves -- United States -- Pictorial works
National parks and reserves -- United States
Genre: Electronic books.
Travel writing.
Illustrated works.
Biographies.


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