Nature & Outdoors
Book of the National Parks
Robert Sterling Yard · narrated by LibriVox volunteers
10h 15m$1.99
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America's greatest idea, told by its first great storyteller. Robert Sterling Yard helped launch the National Park Service, then wrote this sweeping 1919 tour of the parks' wonders: Yellowstone's geysers, Yosemite's granite walls, the Grand Canyon's impossible depths, glaciers, sequoias, and skies full of stars. Part travel epic, part geology made vivid, it captures the awe that convinced a nation to save its wildest places. Listen before your next road trip, or instead of one. The parks are calling; here is their original invitation.
Inside this audiobook
30 chapters
- 1Preface4m
- 2On the Appreciation of Scenery23m
- 3The National Parks of the United States23m
- 4The Granite National Parks - Granite's Part in Scenery4m
- 5Yosemite, The Incomparable24m
- 6Yosemite, The Incomparable, continued26m
- 7The Proposed Roosevelt National Park36m
- 8The Heart of the Rockies38m
- 9McKinley, Giant of Giants21m
- 10Lafayette and the East15m
- 11The Volcanic National Parks - On the Volcano in Scenery5m
- 12Lassen Peak and Mount Katmai17m
- 13Mount Rainier, Icy Octopus19m
- 14Mount Rainier, Icy Octopus, continued19m
- 15Crater Lake's Bowl of Indigo26m
- 16Yellowstone, A Volcanic Interlude23m
- 17Yellowstone, A Volcanic Interlude, continued18m
- 18Three Monsters of Hawaii23m
- 19The Sedimentary National Parks - On Sedimentary Rock in Scenery5m
- 20Glaciered Peaks and Painted Shales26m
- 21Glaciered Peaks and Painted Shales, continued26m
- 22Rock Records of a Vanished Race32m
- 23The Healing Waters18m
- 24The Grand Canyon and Our National Monuments - On the Scenery of the Southwest10m
- 25A Pageant of Creation19m
- 26A Pageant of Creation. continued17m
- 27Rainbow of the Desert22m
- 28Historic Monuments of the Southwest26m
- 29Desert Spectacles28m
- 30The Muir Woods and Other National Monuments24m
