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Our National Parks: America's Spectacular Wilderness Heritage

Our national parks are the best of America the beautiful, and this book showsthem at their finest. Richly illustrated, with full-color photos from finest photographers, Our National Parks discusses the wildlife and geology of each park, plus ecological and environmental concerns, Indian heritage and frontier history particular to each. 350 color photos.

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