Trains for Nature: Railroads and the American Land - Tapa blanda

Runte, Alfred

 
9781493090969: Trains for Nature: Railroads and the American Land
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ISBN 10: 1493090968 ISBN 13: 9781493090969
Editorial: Lyons Press, 2025

Sinopsis

What did America lose with the decline of the passenger train? Much more than most Americans think, observes Alfred Runte, a leading historian of our national parks. Including parks and wilderness, the greatest loss has been to the American land. No technology was ever more respectful—protective—of what it means to have a national landscape. In song and story we call it America the Beautiful. And yet we let our best beautifiers disappear. Now the landscape suffers in our mindless rush to get rid of old technology and blindly embrace the new. Wind farms and solar power plants cajole us to redefine beauty itself, allowing access even to protected wilderness. No railroad ever asked for that'

Originally published in 2006 as Allies of the Earth: Railroads and the Soul of Preservation, the book today is even more timely, now we see what policy-makers have in mind as replacements for railroads. Offering a new preface and epilogue, Runte stands his ground. Absent restraint, no technology is practicing conservation. Railroads renew the hope that the trains, i.e., the restraint, we so carelessly threw away may still be restored to preserve the remaining glories of our continent

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An internationally recognized expert on national parks and railroads, Alfred Runte is based in Seattle, Washington. He was among the principal advisers to Ken Burns’s PBS documentary, The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009), and appeared in all six episodes of the Emmy Award-winning series. Runte has also been a guest on Nightline, The TodayShow, 48 Hours, the History and Travel channels, and speaks frequently in public forums on the need to protect our parks. His other books include Trains of Discovery: Railroads and the Legacy of our National Parks; Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness; and the fifth edition of his critically-acclaimed National Parks: The American Experience. In April 2011, Runte was elected to membership in the College of Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame at Illinois State University (his master's degree institution) "in recognition of exemplary achievement" as a teacher and public scholar. He was further the recipient, in 2021, of the Stewart L. Udall Award from the Western National Parks Association in honor of his lifetime commitment to parks and wilderness

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Editorial
Lyons Press
Año de publicación
2025
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ISBN 10 
1493090968
ISBN 13 
9781493090969
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Número de páginas
222
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