The quiet world saving Alaska's wilderness kingdom, 1879-1960

Summary: A tribute to Alaska's wilderness regions details key preservation activities, leading contributors, and historical events.

Record details

ISBN: 9780062035332 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0062035339 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (x, 576 p., [32] p. of plates) : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.).
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Harper, c2011.

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [509]-550) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Odyssey of the snowy owl -- Theodore Roosevelt's conservation doctrine -- The Pinchot-Ballinger feud -- Bull Moose crusade -- Charles Sheldon's fierce fight -- Our vanishing wildlife -- The Lake Clark pact -- Resurrection Bay of Rockwell Kent -- The new wilderness generation -- Warren G. Harding : backlash -- Bob Marshall and the gates of the Arctic -- Those amazing Muries -- Will the wolf survive? -- William O. Douglas and New Deal conservation -- Ansel Adams, Wonder Lake, and the lady bush pilots -- Pribilof seals, Walt Disney, and the arctic wolves of Lois Crisler -- The Arctic Range and Aldo Leopold -- The Sheenjek Expedition of 1956 -- Dharma wilderness -- Of hoboes, barefooters, and the open road -- Sea Otter Jones and Musk-Ox Matthiessen -- Rachel Carson's alarm -- Selling the Arctic Refuge -- Arctic forever.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.