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Past and Future Yellowstone: Finding our Way in Wonderland (Wallace Stegner Lecture)
Paul Schullery
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Description for Past and Future Yellowstone: Finding our Way in Wonderland (Wallace Stegner Lecture)
Paperback. Drawing on historical perspectives, personal excursions, and decades of professional research and work in the field, Paul Schullery illuminates many of the possible truths embedded within the natural and cultural reality that is Yellowstone National Park. " Series: Wallace Stegner Lecture. Num Pages: 20 pages. BIC Classification: RNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 68039.
Drawing on historical perspectives, personal excursions, and decades of professional research and work in the field, Paul Schullery illuminates many of the possible truths embedded within the natural and cultural reality that is Yellowstone National Park. By varying the scale of observation—from a single encounter between a cow elk and a grizzly bear to the sweeping forces of evolution—Schullery celebrates the park’s history and future potential as a laboratory of ideas. It is, as he states, a place with “layers of meaning waiting to be explored . . . many possible truths to be weighed.” He thus invites us all ... Read more
Drawing on historical perspectives, personal excursions, and decades of professional research and work in the field, Paul Schullery illuminates many of the possible truths embedded within the natural and cultural reality that is Yellowstone National Park. By varying the scale of observation—from a single encounter between a cow elk and a grizzly bear to the sweeping forces of evolution—Schullery celebrates the park’s history and future potential as a laboratory of ideas. It is, as he states, a place with “layers of meaning waiting to be explored . . . many possible truths to be weighed.” He thus invites us all ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Condition
New
Series
Wallace Stegner Lecture
Number of Pages
36
Place of Publication
Salt Lake City, United States
ISBN
9781607814306
SKU
V9781607814306
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Paul Schullery
Paul Schullery began working as a ranger-naturalist in Yellowstone National Park and has since served as a historianarchivist, chief of cultural resources, andsenior editor in the Yellowstone Center for Resources. He is the author, co-author, or editor of more than forty books and was an advisor for the Ken Burns film The National Parks (2009). He is currently scholar-inresidence at ... Read more
Reviews for Past and Future Yellowstone: Finding our Way in Wonderland (Wallace Stegner Lecture)
"Schullery is an excellent choice for this prestigious lecture series as he has long been one of the keenest observers of Yellowstone and the area around it."—Ranger: The Journal of the Association of National Park Rangers