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The hour of land, a personal topography of America's national parks, Terry Tempest Williams

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The hour of land, a personal topography of America's national parks, Terry Tempest Williams

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The hour of land

Oclc number

918995039

Responsibility statement

Terry Tempest Williams

Sub title

a personal topography of America's national parks

Summary

"A personal, lyrical, and idiosyncratic ode to our national parks"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

A Poetic Crossing -- Mapping the Territory -- Introduction: By Definition : America's National Parks -- Keep promise : Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming -- All this is what the wind knows : Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota -- What more shall we do to others : To otherness : Gulf Islands National Seashore, Florida & Mississippi -- "The stones, the steel, the galaxaies" : Acadia National Park, Maine -- "There is no prevailing" : Gettysburg National Battlefield, Pennsylvania -- Death yes but as a gathering : Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa -- Any wind will tell you : Big Bend National Park, Texas -- There is no private space : Gates of the Arctic National Park -- We Are In Some Strange Wind Says the Wind : Canyonlands National Park, Utah -- The bodies are all gone from it, the purchases have been made : Alcatraz Island, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California -- It is so extreme this taking-the-place-of, this standing-in-for, this disappearing of all : Glacier National Park, Montana -- I say to myself keep on, it will not be the end, not yet, my children sleep, not yet : Cesar Chavez National Monument and the future -- Gallery

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