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Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960
HarperCollins
January 2011
On Sale: January 18, 2011
592 pages
ISBN: 0062005960
EAN: 9780062005960
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Non-Fiction
A riveting history of America's most beautiful natural
resources, The Quiet World documents the heroic fight waged
by the U.S. federal government from 1879 to 1960 to save
wild Alaska—Mount McKinley, the Tongass and Chugach national
forests, Gates of the Arctic, Glacier Bay, Lake Clark, and
the Coastal Plain of the Beaufort Sea, among other treasured
landscapes—from the extraction industries. Award-winning
historian Douglas Brinkley traces the wilderness movement in
Alaska, from John Muir to Theodore Roosevelt to Aldo Leopold
to Dwight D. Eisenhower, with narrative verve. Basing his
research on extensive new archival material, Brinkley shows
how a colorful band of determined environmentalists created
the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge just before John F.
Kennedy became president. Brinkley introduces a lively gallery of characters
influential in preserving Alaska's wilderness resources: the
indomitable U.S. Supreme Court justice William O. Douglas,
who championed the Brooks Range; charming Ivy League
explorer Charles Sheldon, who led the campaign to create
Denali National Park; intrepid Bob Marshall, who cofounded
The Wilderness Society; hermit illustrator Rockwell Kent,
who lived in isolation on Fox Island like a modern Thoreau;
nature photographer Ansel Adams, whose image Mount McKinley
and Wonder Lake set off a tsunami of public interest in
America's tallest peak; and U.S. Fish and Wildlife biologist
Rachel Carson, who promoted proper ocean stewardship; among
many more. Wildlife fervently comes to life in The Quiet World:
Brinkley tells incredible stories about the sea otters in
the Aleutians, moose in the Kenai Peninsula, and birdlife
across the Yukon Delta expanse while exploring the
devastating effects that reckless overfishing, seal
slaughter, and aerial wolf hunting have wrought on Alaska's
once-abundant fauna. While taking into account Exxon
Valdez–like oil spills, The Quiet World mainly celebrates
how the U.S. government has preserved many of Alaska's great
wonders for future generations to enjoy.
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