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Chargement... Before They're Gone: A Family's Year-Long Quest to Explore America's Most Endangered National Parkspar Michael Lanza
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"A longtime backpacker, climber, and skier, Michael Lanza knows our national parks like the back of his hand. As a father, he hopes to share these special places with his two young children. But he has seen firsthand the changes wrought by the warming climate and understands what lies ahead ... He takes his nine-year-old son, Nate, and seven-year-old daughter, Alex, on an ambitious journey to see as many climate-threatened wild places as he can fit into a year: backpacking in the Grand Canyon, Glacier, the North Cascades, Mount Rainier, Rocky Mountain, and along the wild Olympic coast; sea kayaking in Alaska's Glacier Bay; hiking to Yosemite's waterfalls; rock climbing in Joshua Tree National Park; cross-country skiing in Yellowstone; and canoeing in the Everglades. Through these poignant and humorous adventures, Lanza shares the beauty of each place and shows how his children connect with nature when given "unscripted" time. Ultimately, he writes, this is more their story than his, for whatever comes of our changing world, they are the ones who will live in it." -- Jacket. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)333.720973Social sciences Economics Economics of land & energy Land, recreational and wilderness areas, energy Environmentalism & Conservation Biography And History North America United StatesClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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I expected a book detailing Lanza's trips with his young children-- filled with their backpacking and hiking adventures, including trials and tribulations. What I got was a hit-you-over-the-head again and again lecture on climate change. The book was really too preachy to be enjoyable.
Had this book been titled "Climate Change in America's National Parks" I never would have picked it up, as the topic really isn't something I'm super interested in reading about. That title would have been much more accurate. ( )