The Quiet World : Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960
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Compact discs.
Unabridged.
"With tracks every 3 minutes for easy book marking"--Container.
Odyssey of the snowy owl -- Theodore Roosevelt's conservation doctrine -- The Pinchot-Ballinger feud -- Bull Moose crusade -- Charles Sheldon's fierce fight -- Our vanishing wildlife -- The Lake Clark pact -- Resurrection Bay of Rockwell Kent -- The new wilderness generation -- Warren G. Harding: backlash -- Bob Marshall and the gates of the Arctic -- Those amazing Muries -- Will the wolf survive? -- William O. Douglas and New Deal conservation -- Ansel Adams, Wonder Lake, and the lady bush pilots -- Pribilof seals, Walt Disney, and the arctic wolves of Lois Crisler -- The Arctic Range and Aldo Leopold -- The Sheenjek Expedition of 1956 -- Dharma wilderness -- Of hoboes, barefooters, and the open road -- Sea Otter Jones and Musk-Ox Matthiessen -- Rachel Carson's alarm -- Selling the Arctic Refuge -- Arctic forever.
Narrated by Andrew Garman.
A tribute to Alaska's wilderness regions details key preservation activities, leading contributors, and historical events.
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COMMUNITY REVIEWS
All About Alaska submitted by 0liviap0pp on August 16, 2011, 6:28am This is a wonderful Book on CD about Alaska and the conservation we can help with!
PUBLISHED
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: 19 sound discs ( 23 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781449856687
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Garman, A. J.
Recorded Books, LLC.
SUBJECTS
Nature conservation -- Alaska -- History.