The quiet world : saving Alaska's wilderness kingdom, 1879-1960 /: saving Alaska's wilderness kingdom, 1879-1960. (©2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Saving Alaska's wilderness kingdom, 1879-1960
• Further Information: Note: Douglas Brinkley.
• Other Names: Brinkley, Douglas
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: New York : Harper
• Publication Date: 2011
• Copyright Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 576 pages, [32] pages of plates), illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
• Subjects: 333.72/09798; Nature -- General; Nature conservation -- Alaska -- History; Environmental protection -- Alaska -- History; Conservationists -- Alaska -- History; HISTORY; NATURE; Conservationists; Environmental protection; Nature conservation; Nature conservation -- Alaska -- History; Alaska; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780062035332; 0062035339
• Related ISBNs: 9780062005960; 0062005960
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-550) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.