Ecology & wonder in the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site
Record details
- ISBN: 1897425589
- ISBN: 9781897425589
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxvi, 352 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits
remote - Publisher: Edmonton : AU Press, ©2010.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Invocation The Magnificent Seven -- Part 1. The West We Had: Foundations of Place. A Walk into the Past: Setting a Context of Place -- The Creation: Monumentality and Place -- The Creation: People and Place Before European Contact -- Exchanging What We Had for What We Want: The Fur Trade Era in the Canadian West -- The Coming of Death: Diminishment and Loss among the First Peoples of the West -- Part 2: The West We Have: Making the Mountains Our Home. Giving Meaning to Mountains and Making Them Ours: Mountaineering and the Aesthetics of Place -- Brushes with Eternity: Landscape Art and Photography in the Canadian Rockies -- Crystal and Cold Blue Chasms: The Literature of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site -- Stemming the Tide of Loss: The Give and Take of Modern Management In and Around the Mountain Parks -- Countering Dispossession: Saving Our Unique Mountain Culture -- The East Slope: Flowing Toward the Atlantic. The Birthplace of Canada's National Park Ideal: Banff National Park -- The North Slope: Flowing Toward the Arctic. The Birthplace of Western and Northern Rivers: The Columbia Icefield and Jasper National Park -- The West Slope: Flowing Toward the Pacific. The Roof of the Canadian Rockies: Mount Robson Provincial Park -- Small, Remote, but Utterly Wild: Hamber Provincial Park -- The Geography of Wonder: Yoho National Park -- The Road to Radium: Kootenay National Park -- Matterhorn of the Rockies: Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park -- Part 3. The West We Want: Creating a Culture Worthy of Place. Respecting and Honouring the Great Bear: The Grizzly as a Symbol of the West We Want -- Seeing What Is Hidden in Plain Sight: Triumphing Over Diminishment and Loss -- Expanding the World Heritage Site Designation: Managing for Future Integrity Instead of Loss -- Creating a Culture Commensurate with Place. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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