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Brinkley, Douglas.
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Nature conservation -- Alaska -- History.
Environmental protection -- Alaska -- History.
Conservationists -- Alaska -- History.
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The quiet world : sa...
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The quiet world : saving Alaska's wilderness kingdom, 1879-1960 / Douglas Brinkley.
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Brinkley, Douglas.
New York : Harper, c2011.
Subjects
Nature conservation -- Alaska -- History.
Environmental protection -- Alaska -- History.
Conservationists -- Alaska -- History.
ISBN:
9780062005960
0062005960
Description:
x, 576 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
Contents:
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.
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A tribute to Alaska's wilderness regions details key preservation activities, leading contributors, and historical events.
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Hawaii State Library
Business, Science & Technology
333.72097 Br
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333.72097 Brinkley
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