Kings Canyon National Park

by Ward Eldredge

Book Overview

By 1900, tiny General Grant National Park, founded to protect a magnificent sequoia grove and one of the world's largest trees, had become virtually encircled by commercial logging enterprises. This island of preservation became the port of call for a new generation of mountain explorers heading towards the vast alpine wilderness to the east. This new generation of wilderness visionaries--including legendary preservationist and founder of the Sierra...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738559962
• ISBN13: 9780738559964
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.6" x 9.2"