Award-winning photographer David Muench captures the well-visited park icons that millions of Americans love and cherish as well as the lesser-known and seldom seen wilderness areas of the park?the untouched gems where few traveler's venture. Ruth Rudner's moving essay coupled with Muench's visual celebration of these great lands, brings to life everything from the Great Smokies to the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, to Bryce Canyon and hundreds of other unique images.
This 1901 work, a collection of essays first published in the Atlantic Monthly, is Muir's valentine to the national parks of the American West.
This collection of essays celebrates those park lands of the American West that John Muir knew and loved.
This book is a tribute to National park Service employees everywhere and was inspired by the original storybook written in 1928 by Horace Albright, the first superintendent of Yellowstone National Park.
Artists from all over the world have participated in the creation of this new, crowdsourced collection of See America posters for a modern era.
The Power of Scenery tells the story of how the world’s national parks came to be, with Frederick Law Olmsted’s insights and energy serving to link three American jewels: Yosemite National Park, Yellowstone National Park, and Niagara ...
Go behind the scenes at the National Park Service to see how maps are used to manage and sustain our national parks in Mapping America's National Parks: Preserving Our Natural and Cultural Treasures.
Caldecott medalist Mordicai Gerstein captures the majestic redwoods of Yosemite in this little-known but important story from our nation's history.
The fort later functioned as prison for deserters, including Dr. Samuel Mudd, a physician who'd been convicted for treating the leg that John Wilkes Booth broke while assassinating President Lincoln. Mudd's sentence was ultimately ...
The Landon family travels to Glacier National Park to investigate why grizzly bear cubs are disappearing and becomes involved with a ten-year-old Mexican runaway boy. Full-color photos. Map included.
In homage to America’s National Parks and their iconic art posters, this volume features new artwork for seventy-five parks and monuments across all fifty states. “In this sepia-tinged homage” to the iconic National Parks posters ...