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Author Heacox, Kim.

Title Visions of a wild America : pioneers of preservation / by Kim Heacox.

Imprint Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, ©1996.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  333.72 H432V    Check Shelf
Description 200 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Series [National Geographic special publications ; 31st ser. no. 3]
National Geographic special publications; 31st ser. ; no. 3]
Note "Prepared by the Book Division."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 200) and index.
Contents A different drummer : the prophets of preservation -- Thinking like a mountain : Aldo Leopold and the land ethic -- Burn candles with independence : Bob Marshall and the freedom of the wilderness -- Something infinitely healing : Rachel Carson and the house of life -- Paradox and bedrock : Edward Abbey and the arid truth -- Listen to the land, eloquently : biodiversity and the geography of hope.
Summary From outlandish adventures to quiet epiphanies, times of heartbreak and times of joy, hundreds of memorable moments have inspired America's great conservationists to defend places and creatures wild and free.
Subject Naturalists -- United States -- Biography.
Conservationists -- United States -- Biography.
Nature conservation -- United States -- History.
Natural history -- United States.
Natural history -- United States -- Pictorial works.
Conservationists. (OCoLC)fst00875578
Natural history. (OCoLC)fst01034268
Naturalists. (OCoLC)fst01034543
Nature conservation. (OCoLC)fst01034632
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Naturalists -- Biography.
Conservationists -- Biography.
Nature conservation -- History.
Natural history -- Pictorial works.
Genre/Form Illustrated works. (OCoLC)fst01423873
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Pictorial works. (OCoLC)fst01423874
Biographies.
Illustrated works.
Added Author National Geographic Society (U.S.). Book Division.
ISBN 0792229444 (reg. edition)
9780792229445 (reg. edition)
0792229746 (deluxe)
9780792229742 (deluxe)
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