The National Parks of America

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For tourists, family campers, and serious lovers of the outdoors, here is a big, beautiful, color-illustrated book that describes more than 50 national parks, sites, and seashores that stretch from Cape Hatteras on the Atlantic coast to the Grand Canyon in Arizona, Yosemite in California, Haleakala in Hawaii, and Glacier Bay in Alaska. More than 400 breathtaking photographs capture the beauty and atmosphere of each site, and 54 color maps show each park's location and major features. Visitor information panels ...
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For tourists, family campers, and serious lovers of the outdoors, here is a big, beautiful, color-illustrated book that describes more than 50 national parks, sites, and seashores that stretch from Cape Hatteras on the Atlantic coast to the Grand Canyon in Arizona, Yosemite in California, Haleakala in Hawaii, and Glacier Bay in Alaska. More than 400 breathtaking photographs capture the beauty and atmosphere of each site, and 54 color maps show each park's location and major features. Visitor information panels give important details on access points, accommodations, and recreational activities such as hiking, rafting, birdwatching, and fishing. Here is a wonderful volume that will inspire plans for trips and evoke marvelous memories of past experiences in America's great outdoors.
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Library Journal
Books on national parks are always in demand because of the need to get away from it all. But popular parks such as the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, and the Great Smokies too often resemble NASCAR racetracks rather than places people visit to escape the crowds and the noise. These two eye-pleasing guides will help readers find some beautiful spots in the United States and Canada that have not yet absorbed the population of Poughkeepsie. Canada is an especially good place to find peace and quiet, since most of its national and provincial parks are quite distant from civilization. In addition to being visually alluring very few of us have ever come back from a vacation with the types of photos that appear in these books both books are replete with useful travel information (when to go, what to see, how to get there). Recommended for armchair and seasoned park travelers alike; public libraries should consider purchasing these as supplements to Freeman Tilden's definitive The National Parks (o.p.) and the glossy guides from the "National Geographic Park Profiles" series. Joseph L. Carlson, Lompoc P.L., CA Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780764154218
  • Publisher: Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 9/28/2001
  • Pages: 240
  • Sales rank: 159455
  • Product dimensions: 9.37 (w) x 12.06 (h) x 0.75 (d)

Table of Contents

Regional Map
  • APPALACHIANS AND ATLANTIC
    Arcadia National Park
    Shenandoah National Park
    Great Smoky Mountains National Park
    Cape Hatteras National Seashore
    Mammoth Cave National Park
  • THE SOUTHEAST
    Everglades National Park
    Biscayne National Park
    Dry Tortugas National Park
  • THE GREAT LAKES
    Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
    Voyageurs National Park
    Isle Royale National Park
  • THE GREAT PLAINS
    Badlands National Park
    Wind Cave National Park and Custer State Park
    Theodore Roosevelt National Park
  • TEXAS AND THE SOUTH
    Hot Springs National Park
    Guadalupe Mountains National Park
    Big Bend National Park
  • THE MOUNTAIN STATES
    Glacier National Park
    Yellowstone National Park
    Grand Teton National Park
    Rocky Mountain National Park
    Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
    Mesa Verde National Park
  • THE SOUTHWESTERN DESERT
    Great Basin National Park
    Arches National Park
    Canyonlands National Park
    Capitol Reef National Park
    Bryce Canyon National Park
    Zion National Park
    Grand Canyon National Park
    Canyon De Chelly National Monument
    Petrified Forest National Park
    Saguaro National Park
    Carlsbad Caverns National Park
  • THE PACIFIC COAST
    North Cascades National Park
    Olympic National Park
    Mount Rainier National Park
    Crater Lake National Park
    Lassen Volcanic National Park
    Redwood National Park
    Yosemite National Park
    Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks
    Death Valley National Park
    Joshua Tree National Park
    Channel Islands National Park
  • HAWAII
    Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
    Haleakala National Park
  • ALASKA
    Denali National Park
    Kenai Fjords National Park
    Lake Clark National Park
    Katmai National Park
    Glacier Bay National Park
    Wrangell-St. Elias National Park
    Gates of the Arctic National Park
    Kobuk Valley National Park

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