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Williams, Terry Tempest, author.
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Williams, Terry Tempest -- Travel -- United States.
National parks and reserves -- United States.
National parks and reserves -- United States -- Pictorial works.
National parks and reserves -- Social aspects -- United States.
Landscapes -- Social aspects -- United States.
Natural history -- United States.
Human ecology -- United States -- Philosophy.
United States -- Environmental conditions.
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The hour of land : a personal topography of America's national parks / Terry Tempest Williams.
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Williams, Terry Tempest, author.
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Williams, Terry Tempest -- Travel -- United States.
National parks and reserves -- United States.
National parks and reserves -- United States -- Pictorial works.
National parks and reserves -- Social aspects -- United States.
Landscapes -- Social aspects -- United States.
Natural history -- United States.
Human ecology -- United States -- Philosophy.
United States -- Environmental conditions.
ISBN:
9780374280093 (hardback)
0374280096 (hardback)
9780374712266 (e-book)
0374712263
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395 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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First edition.
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America's national parks: by definition -- Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming: keep promise -- Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota: all this is what the wind knows -- Acadia National Park, Maine: the stones, the steel, the galaxies -- Gettysburg National Battlefield, Pennsylvania: there is no prevailing -- Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa: death yes but as a gathering -- Big Bend National Park, Texas: any wind will tell you -- Gates of the Arctic National Park, Alaska: there is no private space -- Gulf Islands National Seashore, Florida and Mississippi: what more shall we do to others, to otherness -- Canyonlands National Park, Utah: we are in some strange wind says the wind -- Alcatraz Island, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California: the bodies are all gone from it, the purchases have been made -- Glacier National Park, Montana: it is so extreme this taking-the-place-of, this standing-in-for, this disappearing of all the witnesses -- César Chávez National Monument, California, and the future: I say to myself keep on, it will not be the end, not yet.
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