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1) Secrets of the national parks: the expert's guide to the best experiences beyond the tourist trail
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2013]-
Language
English
Publisher
gestalten
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Yosemite. Grand Canyon. Death Valley. Big Sur. Covering 84 million acres, North America's national park system casts a remarkable impression on the landscape. Each containing a wealth of wildlife and rich histories, these . . . spaces are brimming with natural wonders. 'The Parklands' takes you on a . . . tour in every direction. Home to the tallest trees on Earth, the world's largest carnivores, several colossal waterfalls, and plantlife that reaches...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Start your tour of the geological wonders of North America’s national parks with Yellowstone, where the breathtaking landscape inspired the idea of a national park. Focus on the processes that produce Yellowstone’s many geothermal formations, particularly its geysers..
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Series
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English
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Brown elks cruise the land in Yellowstone while black bears roam in Yosemite. The green cactus thrives in Zion, and the white-tailed ptarmigan flies above the Rocky Mountains. Come with us on a trip around America's national parks, a world full of colors, wildlife, and incredible landscapes. With simple text and bright illustrations, this sturdy board book is the perfect introduction to the ten most visited national parks in the United States for...
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Language
English
Description
Each year millions of people from around the world visit America's national parks lured by images of lands of wonder beyond expression. This exhilarating program reveals the very best locations in America's national parks to gaze at geysers, spot wildlife, mountain climb, spelunk, and even tie the knot! Allow the best America's national parks to come to life for you.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In 1872, a wondrous region called Yellowstone was set aside as the world’s first national park, giving adventurous travelers access to a geologist’s paradise that seethes with pent-up volcanic forces. As more and more national parks were created—not just in the United States but also in Canada and Mexico—geologists were revolutionizing their field, piecing together a detailed understanding of how the world works. National parks have made these...
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Series
Great Courses volume 1
Language
English
Description
Start your tour of the geological wonders of North America's national parks with Yellowstone, where the breathtaking landscape inspired the idea of a national park. Focus on the processes that produce Yellowstone's many geothermal formations, particularly its geysers.
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Language
English
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National parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier preserve some of this country's most cherished wilderness landscapes. While visions of pristine, uninhabited nature led to the creation of these parks, they also inspired policies of Indian removal. By contrasting the native histories of these places with the links between Indian policy developments and preservationist efforts, this work examines the complex origins of the national parks and the...
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Great Courses volume 23
Language
English
Description
Visit Theodore Roosevelt, Badlands, and Mount Rushmore National Parks in the Dakotas, beholding the landscape that inspired Theodore Roosevelt to become an ardent conservationist. Learn how the fantastic forms of the badlands are the product of deposition, uplift, and erosion.
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Series
Great Courses volume 10
Language
English
Description
Survey the most beautiful valley on Earth: Yosemite. Even for those who have not yet visited, its views are iconic thanks to stunning photos by Ansel Adams and others. Investigate the geological history of the park, focusing on its most distinctive rock type-granite.
14) Hard truth
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Series
Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 13
Language
English
Description
Just days after marrying Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon moves to Colorado to assume her new post as district ranger at Rocky Mountain National Park.
When two of three children who'd gone missing from a religious retreat reappear, Anna's investigation brings her face-to-face with a paranoid sect—and with a villain so evil, he'll make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end.
When two of three children who'd gone missing from a religious retreat reappear, Anna's investigation brings her face-to-face with a paranoid sect—and with a villain so evil, he'll make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end.
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Series
Great Courses volume 22
Language
English
Description
The rocks of coastal Maine reveal a gripping legacy of lost oceans, colliding continents, epic mountains, furious volcanoes, and massive glaciers. Acadia National Park records evidence of all this, etched into its granite summits and boulder-strewn shores.
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Great Courses volume 25
Language
English
Description
What did it take to carve the Grand Canyon? Explore theories on how this remarkable chasm came to be. Then take a boat trip through the park, from the Colorado River's access point at Lee's Ferry, down fearsome rapids and into a majestic wonderland. Also, study how humans have changed the river.
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Great Courses volume 19
Language
English
Description
Get your feet wet at America's coastal national parks, where dunes, salt marshes, ponds, and lagoons characterize shorelines. Investigate the myriad dynamic processes at Cape Hatteras, Cape Cod, and Assateague National Seashores, and at Sleeping Bear Dunes, Indiana Dunes, Pictured Rocks, and Apostle Islands National Lakeshores.
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Series
Great Courses volume 27
Language
English
Description
Nowhere is nature's artistry more exquisite than in the intricately eroded parks of the Colorado Plateau-from Bryce Canyon, to Arches National Park, to Canyonlands National Park. Seek answers to these strange, sculpted landforms, asking questions such as: How did more than 2,000 natural arches form in the Arches region?
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Series
Great Courses volume 30
Language
English
Description
Ascend the heights of the Rocky Mountains, asking how tectonic processes nearly a thousand miles away could possibly have raised this extensive range. Venture to Rocky Mountain National Park, Red Rocks, the Garden of the Gods, the Maroon Bells, and the Canadian Rockies.
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Series
Great Courses volume 4
Language
English
Description
Compare the lessons of hotspot volcanism at Yellowstone with the very different landscape at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, which is also stoked by upwelling magma from Earth's mantle. Professor Cochran describes rivers of fire on the Big Island of Hawaii and suggests distinctive lava formations to visit.
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