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A riveting record of America's most beautiful natural resources, The Calm World documents the heroic deal with waged by the U.S. federal government from 1879 to 1960 to save lots of crazy Alaska - Mount McKinley, the Tongass and Chugach countrywide forests, Gates of the Arctic, Glacier Bay, Lake Clark, and the Coastal Simple of the Beaufort Sea, among other treasured landscapes - from the extraction industries. Award-winning historian Douglas Brinkley traces the wilderness movement in Alaska, from John Muir to Theodore Roosevelt to Aldo Leopold to Dwight D. Eisenhower, with narrative verve. Basing his research on intensive new archival material, Brinkley shows what sort of colorful music group of driven environmentalists created the Arctic Country wide Wildlife Refuge just before John F. Kennedy became chief executive. Brinkley introduces a lively gallery of characters influential in conserving Alaska's wilderness resources. And wildlife fervently involves life in The Calm World: Brinkley tells incredible reviews about the ocean otters in the Aleutians, moose in the Kenai Peninsula, and birdlife across the Yukon Delta expanse while discovering the devastating effects that reckless overfishing, seal slaughter, and aerial wolf hunting have wrought on Alaska's once-abundant fauna. While taking into account Exxon Valdez-like engine oil spills, The Calm World mainly celebrates the way the U.S. authorities has preserved a lot of Alaska's great miracles for future generations to enjoy.
