Before they're gone : a family's year-long quest to explore America's most endangered national parks / Michael Lanza.
"A longtime backpacker, climber, and skier, Michael Lanza knows our national parks like the back of his hand. As a father, he hopes to share these special places with his two young children. But he has seen firsthand the changes wrought by the warming climate and understands what lies ahead ... He takes his nine-year-old son, Nate, and seven-year-old daughter, Alex, on an ambitious journey to see as many climate-threatened wild places as he can fit into a year: backpacking in the Grand Canyon, Glacier, the North Cascades, Mount Rainier, Rocky Mountain, and along the wild Olympic coast; sea kayaking in Alaska's Glacier Bay; hiking to Yosemite's waterfalls; rock climbing in Joshua Tree National Park; cross-country skiing in Yellowstone; and canoeing in the Everglades. Through these poignant and humorous adventures, Lanza shares the beauty of each place and shows how his children connect with nature when given "unscripted" time. Ultimately, he writes, this is more their story than his, for whatever comes of our changing world, they are the ones who will live in it." -- Jacket.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780807001196
- ISBN: 0807001198
- Physical Description: xxii, 197 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, [2012]
- Copyright: ©2012
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- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Chapter 1 Deepest Earth 1 -- Chapter 2 How Does the Water Go Up the Mountain? 19 -- Chapter 3 Distant Rumble of White Thunder 37 -- Chapter 4 In the Long Shadow of "The Mountain" 55 -- Chapter 5 Along a Wild Coast 73 -- Chapter 6 Backbone of the World 89 -- Chapter 7 If a Tree Falls 107 -- Chapter 8 Searching for Dr. Seuss 125 -- Chapter 9 End of Winter 141 -- Chapter 10 Going Under 159.
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