Search results for ""Author Alfred Runte""
Roberts Rinehart Publishers Trains of Discovery Ltd.
£46.00
Rowman & Littlefield National Parks: The American Experience
£16.99
Roberts Rinehart Publishers Trains of Discovery: Railroads and the Legacy of Our National Parks
£19.61
Rowman & Littlefield Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness
This history of the first large land area to be set aside for preservation and public use by Congress follows Yosemite from its early Native American inhabitants, exploration, establishment as a national park in 1890, and through such controversial developments as Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, the Badger Pass Ski Area, the so-called Firefall, and the infamous Stoneman Meadow riot of 1970. The story of Yosemite has proved to be a microcosm of the debate within the National Park Service itself over preservation versus access, development of resources versus conservation of them. “Yosemite,” Runte contends, “remains central to these and many other debates, suggesting its continuing importance as a field of investigation into the management of the national park system at large.”
£19.11
Taylor Trade Publishing 25 Myths That Are Destroying the Environment: What Many Environmentalists Believe and Why They Are Wrong
This is a book about ecology, environment, nature, and the misleading information that plagues the discussions of these topics. It is easy-to-read, fun, and doesn't have to be read all at once; you can pick it up for five or ten minutes, get one idea out of it, put it down, and come back for other five or ten minutes some other time. It's light reading about very difficult subjects, such as: is trying to save every single species necessarily a good thing? Is life really all that fragile? Is undisturbed nature the normal state of things? and twenty-three more insightful essays.
£14.99
