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Yellowstone Treasures - The Traveler's Companion to the National Park (Paperback, 6th ed.): Janet Chapple Yellowstone Treasures - The Traveler's Companion to the National Park (Paperback, 6th ed.)
Janet Chapple
R679 R572 Discovery Miles 5 720 Save R107 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Yellowstone, Land of Wonders - Promenade in North America's National Park (Hardcover, 0th edition): Jules LeClercq Yellowstone, Land of Wonders - Promenade in North America's National Park (Hardcover, 0th edition)
Jules LeClercq; Translated by Janet Chapple, Suzanne Cane; Foreword by Lee Whittlesey
R918 R762 Discovery Miles 7 620 Save R156 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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-rumoured 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last makes available to English-speaking readers a masterpiece of western American travel writing that is a fascinating historical document in its own right.

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