Featuring glorious full-color photos and maps throughout, this new addition to the Smithsonian Guides to Natural America covers the parks, wilderness preserves, nature sanctuaries, and scenic wonders to be found in the rugged and remote areas of Alaska and Hawaii. Over 150 color photos.

The Pacific: Hawaii & Alaska (Smithsonian Guides to Natural America)

History

HEACOX, KIM

Americas

Random House]

A dual biography of two of the most compelling elements in the narrative of wild America, John Muir and Alaska. 
John Muir was a fascinating man who was many things: inventor, scientist, revolutionary, druid (a modern day Celtic priest), husband, son, father and friend, and a shining son of the Scottish Enlightenment -- both in temperament and intellect. Kim Heacox, author of The Only Kayak, bring us a story that evolves as Muir’s life did, from one of outdoor adventure into one of ecological guardianship---Muir went from impassioned author to leading activist. The book is not just an engaging and dramatic profile of Muir, but an expose on glaciers, and their importance in the world today. Muir shows us how one person changed America, helped it embrace its wilderness, and in turn, gave us a better world.
December 2014 will mark the 100th anniversary of Muir’s death. Muir died of a broken heart, some say, when Congress voted to approve the building of Hetch Hetchy Dam in Yosemite National Park. Perhaps in the greatest piece of environmental symbolism in the U.S. in a long time, on the California ballot this November is a measure to dismantle the Hetch Hetchy Dam.
Muir’s legacy is that he reordered our priorities and contributed to a new scientific revolution that was picked up a generation later by Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson, and is championed today by influential writers like E.O. Wilson and Jared Diamond. Heacox will take us into how Muir changed our world, advanced the science of glaciology and popularized geology. How he got people out there. How he gave America a new vision of Alaska, and of itself.

John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire: How A Visionary And The Glaciers Of Alaska Changed America

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

LYONS PRESS+

THE MAKING 

                       OF THE 

                NATIONAL PARKS 

              AN AMERICAN IDEA

The National Park System ranks as one of our most magnificent achievements, ana the story of its creation offer insights into how the American landscape shaped our history and character and continues to do so today, almost 175 years after painter George Catlin first articulated the idea of "a nation's Park."

In these lavishly illustrated pages, award-winning author Kim Heacox uses this uniquely American idea as the focus for a wide-ranging chronicle of our evolving vision of wildness. His narrative begins in the 17th century, when our first settlers built towns around shared lands known as commons, and ends in 1916, when the National Park Service was formed to administer a new kind of common - unspoiled and held in trust for Americans everywhere.

In spectacular counterpoint, 100 illustrations offer unforgettable glimpses of a wilderness that awed the painters and photographers who first recorded its splendors. Here, too, are images by pioneering photographers from Eadweard Muybridge to Ansel Adams, documenting the discoveries that led to parks all over our nation. An epilogue summarizes the developments since 1916, and an appendix provides descriptions of every national park.

An American Idea: The Making of the National Parks

Business & Money

Economics

National Geographic

The Making Of The National Parks ; An American Idea

Skills

Natl Geographic Society

Photographs depicting the Antarctic landscape, accompanied by diary accounts from the crew, enliven this retelling of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated two-year voyage

Shackleton: The Antarctic Challenge

Foreword by Jimmy Carter. In An American Idea: The Making of the National Parks, Kim Heacox—winner of the Benjamin Franklin Nature Book Award, and twice winner of the Lowell Thomas Award for excellence in travel journalism—explores the development of our nation’s environmental consciousness. Heacox depicts the remarkable feats accomplished by dedicated people, from Lewis and Clark and Henry David Thoreau to John Muir and Teddy Roosevelt. Delving into original sources that date back to the 1600s, he pieces together an inspirational story peopled with such fascinating characters as young artist Thomas Moran, whose stunning landscapes of Yellowstone compelled Congress to deem it the first national park, and John Wesley Powell, the one-armed Civil War officer who first mapped the Grand Canyon. Enhanced by a portfolio of Ansel Adam’s photography, commissioned in the 1940s by the Department of the Interior to bring the beauty of the parklands to greater public awareness, An American Idea: The Making of the National Parks is a literary and visual treasure. Through compelling text enriched with stunning photographs, maps, and paintings—many of which have never been seen—this volume gives three centuries of American history an original and unexpected twist.

The Pacific: Hawaii and Alaska (Smithsonian Guides to Natural America)

Barth, Steve

Cooke, Richard Alexander, III

Science & Math

Smithsonian Books

Alaska's Inside Passage

Exquisitely captured, luminous photographs pay homage to the world's largest sheltered inland waterway. An enthralling treasure for all time.

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Sunrise Publishing (CA)

Denali Road Guide

Travel

Travel Writing

Alaska Natural History Assn

Experience the joy of Alaska as the rhythm of the seasons works its timeless magic on the Alaska landscape, people, and animals. Editors Edward Bovy and Alissa Crandall wanted to produce "the most beautiful book on Alaska ever made" and carefully selected more than 140 of the finest photos from their statewide team of 53 photographers. The result is a stunning mixture of wildlife, landscapes and plants: many of the photos show an artistic impression not typical of other Alaska pictorial books. Photos are accompanied by short essays on each season. Each essay is translated into Japanese and German in addition to the English, making this Alaska's first international pictorial photoessay. 9 x 11.5 inches horizontal.

Seasons of Alaska

Photographers, Alaskan

Greatland Graphics

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