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The quiet world : saving Alaska's wilderness kingdom, 1879-1960
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Title
The quiet world : saving Alaska's wilderness kingdom, 1879-1960 / Douglas Brinkley.
ISBN
9780062005960
0062005960
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Harper, c2011.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Summary
A tribute to Alaska's wilderness regions details key preservation activities, leading contributors, and historical events.
Variant and related titles
Saving Alaska's wilderness kingdom, 1879-1960
Internet Archive collection.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [509]-550) and index.
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.
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