The quiet world : saving Alaska's wilderness kingdom, 1879-1960 / Douglas Brinkley.

Author: Brinkley, Douglas.

Edition: 1st ed.

Publisher: New York : Harper, c2011.

ISBN: 9780062005960
0062005960

Description: x, 576 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Subject: Nature conservation Alaska History.
Wilderness areas Alaska History.
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Alaska) History.

Contents: The odyssey of the snowy owl -- Theodore Roosevelt's conservation doctrine -- The Pinchot-Ballinger feud -- Bull moose crusade -- Charles Sheldon's fierce fight -- Our vanishing wildlife -- The Lake Clark pact -- Resurrection Bay of Rockwell Kent -- The new wilderness generation -- Warren G. Harding: backlash -- Bob Marshall and the gates of the arctic -- Those amazing Muries -- Will the wolf survive? -- William O. Douglas and New Deal conservation -- Ansel Adams, Wonder Lake, an the lady bush pilots -- Pribilof seals, Walt Disney, adn the arctic wolves of Lois Crisler -- The arctic range and Aldo Leopold -- The Sheenjek expedition of 1956 -- Dharma wilderness -- Of hoboes, barefooters, and the open road -- Sea Otter Jones adn Musk-ox Matthiessen -- Rachel Carson's alarm -- Selling the Arctic Refuge -- Arctic forever.

Summary: A tribute to Alaska's wilderness regions details key preservation activities, leading contributors, and historical events.