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Visions of a wild America : pioneers of preservation
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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 wil...
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.
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- Creator
- by Kim Heacox
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- Language
- English
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- Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, [1996]
- ©1996
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- 200 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
- ISBNs
- 0792229444, 9780792229445, 0792229746, 9780792229742
- OCLC
- ocm34752685
- "Prepared by the Book Division."
- Includes bibliographical references (page 200) and index.
- 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