This beautiful, illustrated publication provides a brief history of the longest recorded cave system in the world, with more than 360 miles explored and mapped.

Mammoth Cave: Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky (National Park Service Handbook)

History

David Rains Wallace

Americas

National Park Service

Excerpt from Yellowstone: A Natural and Human History, Yellowstone National Park, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming While 19th - century Americans prized Yellow stone's wonders for their curiosity, they also valued them as manifestations of natural processes that might expand human horizons. The l870s saw the establishment of us. Geological surveys as well as the park. One of Yellowstone's main explorers, Ferdinand Hayden, was a government geologist. Members of Congress would not have voted to pre serve Yellowstone if it had seemed only an infernalamusement park. They were well aware of the deeper implications of all that steam rushing forth from the ground and water crashing over falls - such forces drove industrial development then. Geology was a cutting-edge science of the mid-19th century. Geol ogy then was like space exploration would be to the mid-2oth century, and the Yellowstone area was its Mars. Yellowstone was that faraway, alien place where theories could be tested by observing natural forces still at work in spectacularly pristine ways. This noble deed may be regarded as a tribute from our legislators to science, Hayden wrote about the park's creation. The new way of regarding the Earth was not con fined to geologists and legislators. The fur trapper Joe Meek expressed it in rudimentary but vivid lan guage in 1829. Meek likened one of Yellowstone's geyser basins to the industrial city of Pittsburgh. Three young frontiersmen who explored the region 40 years later echoed Meek, calling one hot spring concentration the chemical works. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Yellowstone: A Natural and Human History, Yellowstone National Park, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming (Classic Reprint)

Business & Money

Accounting

Forgotten Books

A sunset-to-sunrise odyssey through the strange and fascinating wilderness world at night contains evocative imagery which is visually complemented by color and black-and-white paintings

The Dark Range: A Naturalist's Night Notebook

Science & Math

Sierra Club Books

Sm Quarto, , PP.183, A Sandstone Ridge IN East Central Ohio

Idle Weeds

The Wilder Shore

Sierra Club Books/Yolla Bolly Press

Linking natural history with the imagination in the tradition of Peter Mathiessen and Stephen Jay Gould, the award-winning author investigates the relationship between the human mind and the natural world through an exploration of Bulow Hammock, a subtropical woodland in Florida.

Bulow Hammock: Mind in a Forest

Random House, Inc.

When ex-forest ranger George Clark uncovers the murdered body of a naturalist friend in California's Klamath Mountains and understands his friend's startling discovery, he is drawn into the orbit of a millionaire who made his fortune trading in endangered species

The Turquoise Dragon

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Literature & Fiction

United States

Looks at the impact of the land bridge between North and South America on animal evolution, and describes the species found in Central America today

The Monkey's Bridge: Mysteries of Evolution in Central America

Travel

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Mammoth Cave: Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky (National Park Service Handbook)

Yellowstone: A Natural and Human History, Yellowstone National Park, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming (Classic Reprint)

The Dark Range: A Naturalist's Night Notebook

The Dark Range: A Naturalist's Night Notebook

Idle Weeds

The Wilder Shore

Bulow Hammock: Mind in a Forest

The Turquoise Dragon

The Turquoise Dragon

The Monkey's Bridge: Mysteries of Evolution in Central America