America's Hidden Wilderness; Lands of Seclusion

by Richard Alexander Cooke III

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870446665
• ISBN13: 9780870446665
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: National Geographic Society
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Away from it ALL!

This 1988 offering from National Geographic lives up to its name. In seven chapters you will learn about some of the most isolated locations in North America. Go on a "Quest for Solitude" in Baxter State Parke, Maine. Explore "The Last Forest" in Mexico's Lacandon Wilderness. Find a "Hidden Canyon" in the Grand Gulch Primitive Area of Utah. Witness nature's powers of renewal in "The Great Burn" Wilderness Area, along the Idaho - Montana border. Experience an "Arctic Awakening" in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge of Alaska's North Slope. Seek some Mojave "Desert Splendor" in California. And canoe an "Enchanted River" as you follow the Riviere a l'Eau Claire to the Hudson Bay in Quebec. This volume is part of the National Geographic's Special Publications Series, one of the best-kept secrets in the world of books. Since 1966 the Society had released four titles per year. The same size and shape as their iconic magazine, these hardcovers present the best that National Geographic has to offer, and without the ads! Authors have included such scientific luminaries as Isaac Asimov, Bob Ballard, Jane Goodall and Louis Leakey.