Before They're Gone: A Family's Year-Long Quest to Explore America's Most Endangered National Parks

by Michael Lanza

Book Overview

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: Alaska's tidewater glaciers are rapidly retreating, and the abundant sea life in their shadow departs with them. Encroaching tides threaten beloved wilderness...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807001848
• ISBN13: 9780807001844
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"