The Book of the National ParksRobert Sterling Yard
The Book of the National Parks
Robert Sterling Yard
Essays
Book language: English
310 pages
The Book of the National Parks is a collection of essays from 1919 about America's national parks. Robert Sterling Yard, an official of the National Park Service, describes their landscapes, natural features, and importance, aiming to help readers understand and appreciate them. It offers an early, accessible introduction to the parks and the natural forces that shaped them.
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BY
ROBERT STERLING YARD
CHIEF, EDUCATIONAL DIVISION, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, DEPARTMENT
OF THE INTERIOR
AUTHOR OF "THE NATIONAL PARKS PORTFOLIO"
"THE TOP OF THE CONTINENT," ETC.
WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1919
PREFACE
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
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