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AAA Guide to the National Parks : A Comprehensive Travel Guide to the National Parks of the United States
by Sara Roen, Kim Sheeter (Compiler), Michael Sheeter, American Automobile
Here is the guide vacationers and travelers should not be without. This book presents all the detailed information for readers to plan an exciting journey to our national parks. Entrance fees, permit information, accommodations, special amenities, and campgrounds are listed for each location. 50 color photos.
America's Spectacular National Parks
by Letitia Burns O'Connor (Editor), Dana Levy (Editor), Michel Duchein (Introduction) Hardcover - 132 pages (May 1999)
From the rocky shore of Maine's Acadia to the barren crater and lush rain forest of Hawaii's Haleakala, America's national beauty is celebrated and preserved in its national parks. Beautiful Book!
National Geographic's Guide to the National Parks of the United States (3rd Edition)
by Elizabeth L. Newhouse (Editor)
It's impressive how much National Geographic can squeeze into a small book. Each entry tells how big the park is, describes its flavor, indicates when it's best to go and how to get there, and includes an elegantly useful map.
Acadia National Park : Wildlife Watcher's Guide
by Ruth Gortner Grierson
This book has lots of photos and basic facts about the Acadia areas wildlife. The book also gives readers locations and best viewing times info to help both tourist and area resident find the animals they want to see.
Exploring the Alaska-Yukon Bordercountry
by Jill De LA Hunt, John W. Page (Photographer)
Hardcover - 144 pages
The Complete Guide to Kenai Fjords National Park
by Jim Pfeiffenberger
Kenai Fjords near Seward, Alaska is one of Alaska's most popular coastal destinations. Numerous boat tour operators provide easy access for general sightseeing and kayak drop-offs. A complete discussion of the park's plants, animals, geology and history.
Badlands Theodore Roosevelt and Wind Cave National Parks : Wildlife Watcher's Guide
by Michael Milstein, Michael H. Francis (Photographer)
Birds of the Rocky Mountains : With Particular Reference to National Parks in the Northern Rocky Mountain Region
by Paul A. Johnsgard
Fodor's National Parks of the East : Plus Seashores, Forests and Wildlife Refuges (3rd Ed)
Here are all the essentials for touring 25 of the best-loved national parks, seashores, forests, a wildlife refuges in the eastern United States.
The Bear (Endangered Animals & Habitats)
by Laura Barghusen
Library Binding (March 1999)
Venomous Animals : 300 Animals in Full Color (Golden Guide)
by Edmund D. Brodie, John D. Dawson (Illustrator)
Ansel Adams : Our National Parks
by Andrea G. Stillman (Editor), William A. Turnage (Editor)
Spectacular photography of America's National Parks by Ansel Adams.
Yosemite
by Ansel Adams, Andrea G. Stillman (Editor)
One of the best places on earth photographed by the best in the business. These stunning pictures will take your breath away. This volume presents the essence of Adams' long association with Yosemite--66 memorable photos of glacial lakes and craggy peaks, cascading waterfalls and granite monoliths, lone trees and sylvan streams.
America's Wilderness : The Photographs of Ansel Adams With the Writings of John Muir
by Ansel Adams (Photographer), John Muir (Contributor)
Quotes from noted naturalist John Muir, who started the conservation movement with the founding of the Sierra Club in 1892, are paired with Ansel Adams's evocative photographs of Grand Canyon National Park, Kings River Canyon, Yellowstone National Park, and others. These photographs were commissioned by the Interior Department as part of a mural project and intended to decorate the walls of its Washington, D.C., headquarters. 124 b&w photos.
*****John Muir : His Life and Letters and Other Writings
by John Muir, Terry Gifford (Editor) Hardcover - 912 pages
A biography (with a large amount of Muir's autobiographical work) completed by his executor William Bade. This contains much of Muir's most vivid writing and correspondence that does not appear in his more famous books. In many ways this is a more valuable reflection of Muir as it is fresh and youthful and immediate. It contains wonderful descriptive writing of his impressions of Yosemite and the Sierra.
The Wild Muir : Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures
by John Muir, Fiona King (Illustrator), Lee Stetson
With Muir's grandest experiences in nature, this book instantly takes us into Muir's heart and soul, his youthful love of wilderness, and his unique ability to tell us a story that both delights as well as educates us to the importance of the natural world. Another 5 star review book.
John James Audubon : Writings and Drawings (Library of America, 113)
by John James Audubon
The Boston Sunday Globe, 3 October 1999
This wonderful book--just the right size, at 8 inches by 5--has 64 color plates of birds and quadrupeds, as well as Audubon's voluminous journals, essays, and "ornithological biographies." So familiar are his paintings that one might overlook what a gifted writer Audubon was, the equal of John Muir but less sentimental. --
Wild Edens : Africa's Premier Game Parks and Their Wildlife (Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural Environment Series, No 27)
by Joseph James Shomon
The author, a wildlife conservationist, takes the reader on a journey through the parks of East and South Africa. Starting with Mt. Kilimanjaro, the tallest on the continent, Shomon visits such well-known areas as Amboseli (Kenya), the Serengeti (Tanzania), the Okavango (Botswana), and Kruger (South Africa).
The African Elephant : Twilight in Eden (National Audubon Society Book)
by Roger L. Disilvestro (Editor)
An uplifting, lavishly-illustrated account of our relationship with the African elephant and the struggle to save it from extinction. The book combines lucid, stirring prose with 130 color photographs of elephants, their habitat, and the creatures that share it with them.
African Wildlife : A Photographic Safari
by Stephen J. Krasemann, Barbara Bach
Krasemann has an immediacy about his pictures that is appealing, both intimate (a sleeping colobus monkey) and artistic (a vulture backlit by a rain-cloud-filled sky). Bach's text is written in the form of journal entries, bringing the reader along with her on safari.
Serengeti : Natural Order on the African Plain
by Mitsuaki Iwago
A grand visual panorama of life, death, and renewal on the great Serengeti plain of Africa. 280 color photographs.
Wildlife
by Mitsuaki Iwago (Photographer), Isao Tezuka (Translator) Hardcover 608 pages
Mitsuaki Iwago has the extraordinary ability to get so close to, so intimate with, the creatures he photographs with more than 450 pictures taken all over the globe. Beautiful Photography!
Arias in Silence
by Gordon Parks
A great piece of work. A lavish marriage of good photography and beautiful poetry.
Rainforests of the World : Water, Fire, Earth & Air
by Art Wolfe (Photographer), Ghillean T. Prance Hardcover - 304 pages
Rare and intimate view of the rainforests and its inhabitants--the plants, animals, and indigenous peoples that make their homes in the most beautiful and endangered places on earth. More than 200 beautiful color images enhance appreciation for the biological diversity of the rainforests, the fascinating plants and creatures they harbor, and the intricacy and delicacy of the interactions that bind the entire rainforest into one unified system.
Beneath the Canopy : Wildlife of the Latin American Rain Forest
by Kevin Schafer (Photographer), Downs Matthews
The Latin American rain forest is one of the most diverse wildlife regions in the world. Kevin Schafer's exquisite photographs offer a rare, up-close look at the beautiful and elusive creatures that make their home in this natural paradise-from its leafy shadows to the sunlit forest canopy.
Borneo Rain Forest
by Mattias Klum
Lyrical observations accompany exotic imagery shrouded in foliage, muted light, and a steamy atmosphere. A wide range of plant and animal life from insect-devouring pitcher plants to primates, is exhibited in more than 160 photographs taken with in the shadowy Bornean ecosystem on one of the world's largest islands.
Rainforests of the World : A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues)
by Kathlyn Gay
Provides general readers with background information about the world's vanishing rain forests, the reasons for the destruction, the effects of deforestation on indigenous plant and animal life and on global climate, and the policies and efforts being taken to stop the clearing. Also lists helpful organizations and print and nonprint resources. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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