The hour of land : a personal topography of America's national parks

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The work The hour of land : a personal topography of America's national parks represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Moses Greeley Parker Memorial Library (Dracut). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The hour of land : a personal topography of America's national parks

Title remainder

a personal topography of America's national parks

Statement of responsibility

Terry Tempest Williams

Creator

• Williams, Terry Tempest

Subject

• TRAVEL -- United States -- General
• National parks and reserves -- United States
• Landscapes -- Social aspects -- United States
• Human ecology -- United States -- Philosophy
• Illustrated works
• NATURE -- Essays
• Biographies
• National parks and reserves -- United States -- Pictorial works
• United States -- Environmental conditions
• Williams, Terry Tempest -- Travel -- United States
• Natural history -- United States
• National parks and reserves -- Social aspects -- United States
• Travel writing
• TRAVEL -- Parks & Campgrounds

Genre

• Biographies
• Travel writing
• Essays
• Pictorial works
• Illustrated works

Language

eng

Summary

• "A personal, lyrical, and idiosyncratic ode to our national parks"--
• "For years, America's national parks have provided public breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why close to 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now, to honor the centennial of the National Park Service, Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds, returns with The Hour of Land, a literary celebration of our national parks, what they mean to us, and what we mean to them. Through twelve carefully chosen parks, from Yellowstone in Wyoming to Acadia in Maine to Big Bend in Texas, Tempest Williams creates a series of lyrical portraits that illuminate the unique grandeur of each place while delving into what it means to shape a landscape with its own evolutionary history into something of our own making. Part memoir, part natural history, and part social critique, The Hour of Land is a meditation and manifesto on why wild lands matter to the soul of America. Our national parks stand at the intersection of humanity and wildness, and there's no one better than Tempest Williams to guide us there. Beautifully illustrated, with evocative black-and-white images by some of our finest photographers, from Lee Friedlander to Sally Mann to Sebastião Salgado, The Hour of Land will be a collector's item as well as a seminal work of environmental writing and criticism about some of America's most treasured landmarks"--

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• Provided by publisher
• Provided by publisher

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

333.780973

Index

no index present

LC call number

E160

LC item number

.W54 2016

Literary form

non fiction