The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks
The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks By Terry Tempest Williams
2016 | 416 Pages | ISBN: 0374280096 | EPUB | 6 MB
2016 | 416 Pages | ISBN: 0374280096 | EPUB | 6 MB
America s national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadilydisappearing, which is why more than 300 millionpeople visit the parks each year. Now TerryTempest Williams, the author of the environmentalclassic "Refuge "and the beloved memoir "When""Women Were Birds," returns with "The Hour of Land," aliterary celebration of our national parks, an explorationof what they mean to us and what we meanto them. From the Grand Tetons in Wyoming to Acadia in Maine to Big Bend in Texas and more, Williams creates a series of lyrical portraits that illuminate the unique grandeur of each place while delving into what it means to shape a landscape with its own evolutionary history into something of our own making. Part memoir, part natural history, and part social critique, "The Hour of Land "is a meditation and a manifesto on why wild lands matter to the soul of America."