Waterton Lakes National Park
Focusing on the southern Alberta Park that shares a border with Montana’s Glacier National Park, this travel guide, written by Mabel Bertha Williams, is from around 1927.
Focusing on the southern Alberta Park that shares a border with Montana’s Glacier National Park, this travel guide, written by Mabel Bertha Williams, is from around 1927.
The 1936 Guardians of the Wild, the first book written by M. B. Williams, is also the first history of the Canadian national parks system. It was written and published in Great Britain, and Williams never mentions her own part in that history.
This 1924 travel guide, written by Mabel Berta Williams, is a compact, well-photographed guide to the new highway that vastly improved automobile travel in the Rocky Mountain parks.
How do national parks operate? In Nationalparks von Nord bis Süd, Olaf Kaltmeier explores this question by looking at the park politics of Argentina.
“M.B. Williams and the Early Years of Parks Canada” by Alan MacEachern.
Excerpt from The Beloved Face of the Country: The First Movement for Nature Protection in Italy, 1880–1934.
The history of the Swiss National Park is told for the first time in Creating Wilderness. The deliberate reinterpretation of the American idea of the national park, as implemented in Yellowstone, was innovative and radical, but its consequences were not limited to Switzerland. The Swiss park became the prime example of a “scientific national park,” thereby influencing the course of national parks worldwide.
Excerpt from the anthology Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History.
Safari Nation opens new lines of inquiry in the study of national parks in Africa and the rest of the world.