Full name: The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks

Author: Terry Tempest Williams Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Environment/Nature, Non Fiction, Travel, Memoirs, History, Essays, Science Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780374280093 0374280096

America's national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why more than 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the environmental classic Refuge and the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds, returns with The Hour of Land, a literary celebration of our national parks, an exploration of what they mean to us and what we mean to 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. Similar books: The Pine Barrens by John McPhee About This Life by Barry Lopez The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare Holloway by Robert Macfarlane Being a Beast by Charles Foster Underland by Robert Macfarlane Sightlines by Kathleen Jamie A Naturalist Buys an Old Farm by Edwin Way Teale Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams Visit Sunny Chernobyl by Andrew Blackwell When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski Coming Into the Country by John McPhee Tip of the Iceberg by Mark Adams Paris Was Ours by Penelope Rowlands Noble Savages by Napoleon A. Chagnon Icons of England by Bill Bryson From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty The Control of Nature by John McPhee Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk