Yellowstone, Land of Wonders: Promenade in North America's National Park Contributor(s): LeClercq, Jules (Author), Chapple, Janet (Translator), Cane, Suzanne (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0803244770 ISBN-13: 9780803244771 Publisher: Bison Books OUR PRICE: $33.26 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - Travel | United States - West - Mountain (az, Co, Id, Mt, Nm, Nv, Ut, Wy) - Travel | Parks & Campgrounds |
Dewey: 917.875 |
LCCN: 2012045125 |
Physical Information: 1.06" H x 6.42" W x 9.3" (1.24 lbs) 288 pages |
Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Wyoming - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In the summer of 1883 Belgian travel writer Jules Leclercq spent ten days on horseback in Yellowstone, the world's first national park, exploring myriad natural wonders: astonishing geysers, majestic waterfalls, the vast lake, and the breathtaking canyon. He also recorded the considerable human activity, including the rampant vandalism. Leclercq's account of his travels is itself a small marvel blending natural history, firsthand impressions, scientific lore, and anecdote. Along with his observations on the park's long-rumored fountains of boiling water and mountains of glass, Leclercq describes camping near geysers, washing clothes in a bubbling hot spring, and meeting such diverse characters as local guides and tourists from the United States and Europe. Notables including former president Ulysses S. Grant and then-president Chester A. Arthur were also in the park that summer to inaugurate the newly completed leg of the Northern Pacific Railroad. A sensation in Europe, the book was never published in English. This deft translation at long last makes available to English-speaking readers a masterpiece of western American travel writing that is a fascinating historical document in its own right. |