National Park Roads: A Legacy in the American Landscape
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (916 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813937760 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 344 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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(Washington Post) . A Park Service historian, Davis has written "National Park Roads," a fascinating and lavishly illustrated book about those paved ways. You probably haven’t given much thought to any of them, but Timothy Davis has. National Park Roads is a stunning history of the built environment that will change the way we see our national parks. While it's easy to lament that fact and to see roads as modern intrusions into otherwise pristine nature, Tim Davis insists that roads and road building sit at the very heart of national park history. They may well be the most important development in the history of the National P
Key players include many of the most important figures of conservation historyJohn Muir, Frederick Law Olmsted, wilderness advocates Aldo Leopold, Bob Marshall, and Ansel Adams, and NPS directors Stephen Mather and Horace Albright among them. Davis’s recounting of efforts to balance the interests of motorists, wilderness advocates, highway engineers, and other stakeholders offers a fresh perspective on national park history while providing insights into evolving ideas about the role of nature
. He is the coeditor, with Todd Croteau and Christopher Marston, of America’s National Park Roads and Parkways: Drawings from the Historic American Engineering Record. National Park Service, has published and lectured widely on America’s national parks. Timothy Davis, a historian with the U.S
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