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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 576 p. Contains: Maps. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2011280865 Type of material Book Personal name Brinkley, Douglas. Main title The quiet world: saving Alaska's wilderness kingdom, 1879-1960 / Douglas Brinkley. Edition 1st ed. Published/Created New York: Harper, c2011. Description x, 576 p., [32] p. of plates: ill. (some col. ), maps (some col. ); 24 cm. ISBN 9780062005977 (pbk. ) 9780062005960 0062005960 LC classification QH76.5. A4 B75 2011 Portion of title Saving Alaska's wilderness kingdom, 1879-1960 Summary A tribute to Alaska's wilderness regions details key preservation activities, leading contributors, and historical events. 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. Subjects Nature conservation--Alaska--History. Environmental protection--Alaska--History. Conservationists--Alaska--History. Nature conservation--Alaska--History. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [509]-550) and index. Dewey class no. 333.72/09798 333.78216 Geographic area code n-us-ak National bib no. GBB0A0755 National bib agency no. 015634081 Other system no. (OCoLC)ocn555654151
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 6x0x8; The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some very light handling, in a mylar cover. 8vo. x, 576pp.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Very Good. Stated 1st edition/1st printing with full number line, hardcover with dust jacket, tight, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, remainder mark, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders.
