Can I read The Quiet World : Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960 on EtoBox?

The Quiet World : Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960 by Brinkley, Douglas is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Quiet World : Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960 about?

A riveting history of America's most beautiful natural resources, The Quiet World documents the heroic fight waged by the U.S. federal government from 1879 to 1960 to save wild Alaska—Mount McKinley, the Tongass and Chugach national forests, Gates of the Arctic, Glacier Bay, Lake Clark, and the Coastal Plain of the Beaufort Sea, among other treasured landscapes—from the extraction industries. Award-winning historian Douglas Brinkley traces the wilderness movement in Alaska, from John Muir to Theodore Roosevelt to Aldo Leopold to Dwight D. Eisenhower, with narrative verve. Basing his research on extensive new archival material, Brinkley shows how a colorful band of determined environmentalists created the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge just before John F. Kennedy became president. Brinkley introduces a lively gallery of characters influential in preserving Alaska's wilderness resources: the indomitable U.S. Supreme Court justice William O. Douglas, who championed the Brooks Range; charming Ivy League explorer Charles Sheldon, who led the campaign to create Denali National Park; intrepid Bob Marshall, who cofounded The Wilderness Society; hermit illustrator Rockwell Kent, who lived

Who reads The Quiet World : Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960?

Author

Brinkley, Douglas

Publisher

HarperCollins e-books

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062005977

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Nature, History, Biology

Rating

4.07 / 5 (134 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14