America's Spectacular National Parks

by Leslie Croyder, Susan Burke, Mike Macy, et al.

Book Overview

Fifty of America's most scenic National Parks are featured with spectacular images by some of America's best contemporary landscape photographers. Individual entries on each featured park provide a context for nearly 200 full-colour photos that will enthrall armchair travellers and entice others to lace up their hiking boots and reach for sporting gear. This beautiful volume will encourage readers to experience these national treasures with a greater...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0883638487
• ISBN13: 9780883638484
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 4.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 16.3" x 12.2"

Customer Reviews

Gorgeous pictures

I love paging through this book. The pictures are beautiful and the different perspectives of the scenery are appreciated. The scenes make me want to plan a trip to many of the places selected to see them in person.

America's National Parks

Extraordinary coffee table style book. Gorgeous photography. Many National Parks. Highly recommended. I bought 2 copies!!! Michae

"To reinvigorate the visitor"

From glaciers to volcanos, from deserts to waterways, the national parks of the United States are a resource belonging to the people. America's Spectacular National Parks is a gorgeous book celebrating our ownership of this resource, and it's a treasure in its own right. The book begins with a brief history of the acquisition of the parks, beginning with Yellowstone in 1872. How do we keep the parks accessible while curtailing traffic? Has environmental education been successful in shifting public interest "from scenery to science?" What amenities are essential for the comfort of visitors and how do we integrate these needs with the parks' unique ecosystems? Our commitment is won with glorious photography and brief essays about fifty of our parks. Editors Letitia Burns O'Connor and Dana Levy have organized the book by region from east to west. Each park from Maine's Acadia to Hawaii Volcanoes is featured with a two- to four-page spread by some of the country's most eminent nature photographers, among them Craig Blacklock (The Lake Superior Images), David Muench and Marc Muench (Canticle of the Earth: The Words of Francis of Assisi Celebrated in the Photography of David Muench; California: Portrait of a State (Portrait of a Place)), and Mike Sedam (The Olympic Peninsula: The Grace and Grandeur). There are a number of fold-out panoramas and the color values are breathtaking. If you can't go there, at least experience our wild places with this big, beautiful book. At 16 x 12 inches and 132 pages, with full photographs on the covers and dustjacket, "National Parks" is a great addition to anyone's "coffee table library." It's a wonderful present -- that's how I got mine, from a good friend, and I love it. Consider yourself invited to remember our heritage; the National Park Service was established by Congress in 1916 with the following stated purpose: "...To conserve the scenery and the national and historic objects and the wildlife therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations." We and our children are those future generations. Enjoy! Linda Bulger, 2008

Other recommended readings

Just to add on. To see more great scenic shots, see books by David Muench, Galen Rowell, Art Wolfe, among the very best nature photographers/writers out there, not to mention many others.Wildlife photography? See them. Arthur Morris, Tim Fitzharris