Heacox, Kim

Highlights the history of the National Park Service and the parks, monuments, battlefields, historic sites, and scenic lake shores, rivers, and trails the service supports and maintains. Includes color photographs and a timeline of National Park property acquisitions.

Photographs and text profile the experiences polar explorer Ernest Shackleton had as he tried to reach the South Pole in 1914.

Presents a biography of conservationist John Muir focusing on his work with glaciers in Alaska and his legacy today.