The Grand Teton Reader - Couverture souple

Righter, Robert W.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1647690331 ISBN 13 : 9781647690335

Editeur : University of Utah Press,U.S., 2021

Synopsis

Grand Teton National Park draws more than three million visitors annually in search of wildlife, outdoor adventure, solitude, and inspiration. This collection of writings showcases the park's natural and human histories through stories of drama and beauty, tragedy and triumph.

Editor Robert Righter has selected thirty-five contributors whose work takes readers from the Tetons' geological origins to the time of Euro-American encroachment and the park's politically tumultuous creation. Selections range from Laine Thom's Shoshone legend of the Snake River and Owen Wister's essay "Great God! I've Just Killed a Bear," to Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson's humorous yet fearful account of crossing the Snake River, and William Owen's first attempt to climb the Grand Teton. Conservationists, naturalists, and environmentalists are also represented: Terry Tempest Williams chronicles her multiyear encounter with her "Range of Memory," and Olaus and Mardy Murie recount the difficulties of "park-making" in an often-hostile human environment.

Anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the park's wild beauty and controversial past will want to read these stories by people who lived it.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Robert W. Righter is professor emeritus at University of Texas, El Paso, and was professor of history at the University of Wyoming from 1973 to 1988. He is the author of Peaks, Politics, and Passion: Grand Teton National Park Comes of Age, among numerous others. Righter lives with his wife on the edge of Grand Teton National Park.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Utah Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1647690331
• ISBN 13: 9781647690335
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible