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Relax. Linger over the national parks you'll visit in this book.

Seven maps and 129 photographs will take you there. In the northern Cascade Range in Washington State, you'll hike amid snowy crags and alpine meadows. In Minnesota's Voyageurs National Park, you'll cruise among lakes once plied by fur trappers. In the badlands of North Dakota, you'll dodge bison, and off California's coast, you'll discover an isolated wildlife haven in the Channel Islands. In the Guadalupe Mountains of Texas, you'll explore an exposed portion of a 400-mile-long marine fossil reef. In Florida, you'll snorkel among the coral islands and reefs of Biscayne National Park, and in Alaska, you'll hike in the wilderness park of Katmai.


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Park Profiles: America's Hidden Treasures
  • Paperback: 10 pages (1997-04-01)
  • Publisher: National Geographic; 1997-04-01
  • Label: National Geographic
  • Studio: National Geographic
  • ISBN: 0792270339
  • Sales Rank in Books: #1443801

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A Great Little Guide!, June 22, 2000
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This review is from: Park Profiles: America's Hidden Treasures (Paperback)
This little park guide has been the best one I've found for the "not-so-well-known" parks. Some friends and I have used it quite a bit on several little trips we've taken. If you're looking for a guide to smaller, less publicized parks then this is a great one. Some of the directions could have been a bit better, but all-in-all they were pretty good (we may have just been dumb).
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Lesser-known National Parks, a fine introduction:, July 22, 2002
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Jerald R Lovell (Clinton Township, Michigan United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Park Profiles: America's Hidden Treasures (Paperback)
Biscayne, Katmai, North Cascades, Guadelupe Mountains, Voyageurs, Theodore Roosevelt, Channel Islands: Not seven of the best-known National Parks to be sure. But each is eminently deserving of inclusion into the system of "Nation's Crown Jewels". This book shows why.

In a well-drafted, readable, interesting text, accompanied by excellent National Geographic photography, the ins and outs of each named park, including highlights, topography, natural features, climate, hazards, and accessibility are brought out in an imaginative, pleasant manner.

Each park is shown to be a microcosm of a facet of the American wilderness, and each chapter makes you want to visit that park. I have been to Theodore Roosevelt and Biscayne. both were fascinating, and this book helped whet my appetite. I was never misled.

This is a real keeper for any traveler's national park library.
Five stars.

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