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The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the

acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The

War

America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the

Declaration of Independence: that the nation’s most magnificent and

sacred places should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but

for everyone. In this evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative,

Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan delve into the history of the park

idea, from the first sighting by white men in 1851 of the valley

that would become Yosemite and the creation of the world’s first

national park at Yellowstone in 1872, through the most recent

additions to a system that now encompasses nearly four hundred

sites and 84 million acres.

The authors recount the adventures, mythmaking, and intense

political battles behind the evolution of the park system, and the

enduring ideals that fostered its growth. They capture the

importance and splendors of the individual parks: from Haleakala in

Hawaii to Acadia in Maine, from Denali in Alaska to the Everglades

in Florida, from Glacier in Montana to Big Bend in Texas. And they

introduce us to a diverse cast of compelling characters—both unsung

heroes and famous figures such as John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt,

and Ansel Adams—who have been transformed by these special places

and committed themselves to saving them from destruction so that

the rest of us could be transformed as well.

The National Parks is a glorious celebration of an essential

expression of American democracy.

Preface

OUR BEST SELVES

A Treasure House of Nature's Superlatives

Chapter One

THE SCRIPTURE OF NATURE

Homeland: An Interview with Gerard Baker

Chapter Two

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE

Transcendence: An Interview with Shelton Johnson

Chapter Three

EMPIRE OF GRANDEUR

Stories of Discovery: An Interview with Nevada Barr

Chapter Four

GOING HOME

Redefining Beauty: An Interview with Paul Schullery

Chapter Five

GREAT NATURE

Democracy at Its Best: An Interview with Juanita Greene

Chapter Six

THE MORNING OF CREATION

This Is What We Loved: An Interview with Terry Tempest

Williams

Afterword

THE BEST DAY

Acknowledgments

Selected Bibliography

Index

Illustration Credits

Film Credits

Dayton Duncan, writer and producer of The National Parks, is an

award-winning author and documentary filmmaker. His nine other

books include, with Ken Burns, Horatio’s Drive and Lewis &

Clark. He has collaborated on all of Ken Burns’s films for twenty

years as a writer, producer, and consultant. He lives in Walpole,

New Hampshire.

Ken Burns, director and producer of The National Parks, founded his

own documentary company, Florentine Films, in 1976. His films

include The War, Jazz, Baseball, and The Civil War, which was the

highest-rated series in the history of American public television.

His work has won numerous prizes, including the Emmy and Peabody

Awards, and has received two Academy Award nominations. He received

a Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award in 2008. He lives in Walpole, New

Hampshire.

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Praise for the PBS series:

“Stunning and restorative, like the parks themselves.” —Timothy

Egan,

The New York Times

“A masterful historic document, a vivid portrait of the land set

against the stories of those who worked to acquire it and then

protect it against those who still would dismantle or compromise

it.” —David Hinckley,

New York Daily News

“Beautiful and erudite . . . Underneath its wonder,

The National

Parks

is really about how Americans learned (or failed to

learn) proper stewardship of nature.” —Hank Stuever,

The

Washington Post

书籍介绍

The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War

America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation’s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but for everyone. In this evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative, Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan delve into the history of the park idea, from the first sighting by white men in 1851 of the valley that would become Yosemite and the creation of the world’s first national park at Yellowstone in 1872, through the most recent additions to a system that now encompasses nearly four hundred sites and 84 million acres.

The authors recount the adventures, mythmaking, and intense political battles behind the evolution of the park system, and the enduring ideals that fostered its growth. They capture the importance and splendors of the individual parks: from Haleakala in Hawaii to Acadia in Maine, from Denali in Alaska to the Everglades in Florida, from Glacier in Montana to Big Bend in Texas. And they introduce us to a diverse cast of compelling characters—both unsung heroes and famous figures such as John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, and Ansel Adams—who have been transformed by these special places and committed themselves to saving them from destruction so that the rest of us could be transformed as well.

The National Parks is a glorious celebration of an essential expression of American democracy.