| Description |
1 online resource (x, 576 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [509]-550) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
A tribute to Alaska's wilderness regions details key preservation activities, leading contributors, and historical events. |
| Subject |
Nature conservation -- Alaska -- History.
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Environmental protection -- Alaska -- History.
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Conservationists -- Alaska -- History.
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| Genre |
Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Saving Alaska's wilderness kingdom, 1879-1960 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Brinkley, Douglas. Quiet world. 1st ed. New York : Harper, c2011 9780062005960 (OCoLC)555654151 |
| ISBN |
9780062035332 (electronic bk.) |
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0062035339 (electronic bk.) |
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