Yellowstone, Land of Wonders : Promenade in North America's National Park Hardback
by Jules Leclercq
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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last makes available to English-speaking readers a masterpiece of western American travel writing that is a fascinating historical document in its own right.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages, 44 illustrations, 3 maps
- Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
- Publication Date:01/05/2013
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- ISBN:9780803244771
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages, 44 illustrations, 3 maps
- Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
- Publication Date:01/05/2013
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- ISBN:9780803244771