The Book of the National Parks

MP3 Audio CD. In offering the American public a carefully studied outline of its national park system, I have two principal objects. The one is to describe and differentiate the national parks in a manner which will enable the reader to appreciate their importance, scope, meaning, beauty, manifold uses and enormous value to individual and nation. The other is to use these parks, in which Nature is writing in large plain lines the story of America's making, as examples illustrating the several kinds of scenery, and what each kind means in terms of world building; in other words, to translate the practical findings of science into unscientific phrase for the reader's increased profit and pleasure, not only in his national parks but in all other scenic places great and small." - From the Preface of this Book

The Book Of The National Parks, On The Appreciation Of Scenery includes: The National Parks Of The United States; The Granite National Parks, Granite's Part In Scenery; Yosemite, The Incomparable; The Proposed Roosevelt National Park; The Heart Of The Rockies; Mckinley, Giant Of Giants; Lafayette And The East; The Volcanic National Parks; On The Volcano In Scenery; Lassen Peak And Mount Katmai; Mount Rainier, Icy Octopus; Crater Lake's Bowl Of Indigo; Yellowstone, A Volcanic Interlude; Three Monsters Of Hawaii, The Sedimentary National Parks; On Sedimentary Rock In Scenery; Glaciered Peaks And Painted Shales; Rock Records Of A Vanished Race; The Healing Waters, The Grand Canyon And Our National Monuments, On The Scenery Of The Southwest; A Pageant Of Creation; The Rainbow Of The Desert; Historic Monuments Of The Southwest; Desert Spectacles; The Muir Woods And Other National Monuments.

Robert Sterling Yard was a United States author, journalist, and wilderness activist. He was born in Haverstraw, New York, he studied at Princeton University and after graduating, worked in the business of editing and publishing for 20 long years.