The Book of the National Parks (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) - Softcover

Yard, Robert Sterling

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1409959619 ISBN 13: 9781409959618

Verlag: LULU PR, 2009

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Robert Sterling Yard (1861-1945) was an American writer, journalist, and wilderness activist. He graduated from Princeton University and spent the first twenty years of his career in the editing and publishing business. In 1915, he was recruited by his friend Stephen Mather to help publicize the need for an independent national park agency. Their numerous publications were part of a movement that resulted in legislative support for a National Park Service (NPS) in 1916. Yard worked to promote the national parks as well as educate Americans about their use. After helping to establish a relationship between the NPA and the United States Forest Service, Yard later became involved in the protection of wilderness areas. In 1935, he became one of the eight founding members of The Wilderness Society. Yard is now considered an important figure in the modern wilderness movement. His works include: The Book of the National Parks (1919), The National Parks Portfolio (1921) and Glimpses of Our National Parks (1927).

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In offering the American public a carefully studied outline of its national park system, I have two principal objects. The one is to describe and differentiate the national parks in a manner which will enable the reader to appreciate their importance, scope, meaning, beauty, manifold uses and enormous value to individual and nation. The other is to use these parks, in which Nature is writing in large plain lines the story of America smaking, as examples illustrating the several kinds of scenery, and what each kind means in terms of world building; in other words, to translate the practical findings of science into unscientific phrase for the readers increased profit and pleasure, not only in his national parks but in all other scenic places great and small. At the outset I have been confronted with a difficulty because of this double objective. The r61e of the interpreter is not always welcome. If I write what is vaguely known as a popular book, wise men have warned me that any scientific intrusion, however lightly and dramatically rendered, will displease its natural audience.
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• Verlag: LULU PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1409959619
• ISBN 13: 9781409959618
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 348