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Rediscovering National Parks in the Spirit of John Muir
Michael Frome
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Description for Rediscovering National Parks in the Spirit of John Muir
Paperback. As a journalist, advocate, and professor, Michael Frome has spent decades engaged with conservation topics and has taken particular interest in AmericaAEs national parks. He draws on this experience and knowledge to address what remains to be done in order to truly value and preserve these special places. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; RNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
As a journalist, advocate, and professor, Michael Frome has spent decades engaged with conservation topics and has taken particular interest in America’s national parks. He draws on this experience and knowledge to address what remains to be done in order to truly value and preserve these special places. Part memoir, part history, and part broadside against those who would diminish this heritage, Rediscovering National Parks in the Spirit of John Muir, through thoughtful reflections and ruminations, bears witness to the grandeur of our parks and to the need for a renewed sense of appreciation and individual responsibility for their care.
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As a journalist, advocate, and professor, Michael Frome has spent decades engaged with conservation topics and has taken particular interest in America’s national parks. He draws on this experience and knowledge to address what remains to be done in order to truly value and preserve these special places. Part memoir, part history, and part broadside against those who would diminish this heritage, Rediscovering National Parks in the Spirit of John Muir, through thoughtful reflections and ruminations, bears witness to the grandeur of our parks and to the need for a renewed sense of appreciation and individual responsibility for their care.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Salt Lake City, United States
ISBN
9781607814184
SKU
V9781607814184
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99-15
About Michael Frome
Michael Frome is an author, educator, and tireless champion of America’s natural heritage. He has been a featured columnist in the Los Angeles Times, Field & Stream, American Forests, and Defenders of Wildlife, and has written twenty-two books, including Battle for the Wilderness (1997) and Green Ink: An Introduction to Environmental Journalism (1998). In 1995 he retired from the faculty ... Read more
Reviews for Rediscovering National Parks in the Spirit of John Muir
"Very engaging. Frome is a significant figure in modern park and environmental history, having been preeminent as a journalist in the field for many, many years. What he thinks on these matters is worth pondering.”—Joseph L. Sax, author of Mountains without Handrails: Reflections on the National Parks