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Interpreting our heritage / Freeman Tilden ; edited by R. Bruce Craig ; foreword by Russell E. Dickenson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tilden, Freeman, 1883-1980.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National parks and reserves--Interpretive programs--United States.
- National parks and reserves.
- Historic sites--Interpretive programs--United States.
- Historic sites.
- Historic sites--Interpretive programs.
- National parks and reserves--Interpretive programs.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 212 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Fourth edition, expanded and updated.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- For fifty years, Interpreting Our Heritage has been an indispensable sourcebook for those who are responsible for and who respond to interpretive materials at national parks and monuments. This anniversary edition includes an entirely new selection of photographs, six additional essays by Freeman Tilden, and a new foreword and introduction that put this classic work into perspective for present and future generations. Whether the problem is to make a prehistoric site come to life or to explain the geological theory behind a particular rock formation, Tilden provides helpful principles to follow.
- Contents:
- 1 Principles of Interpretation 25
- 2 The Visitor's First Interest 36
- 3 Raw Material and Its Product 44
- 4 The Story's the Thing 53
- 5 Not Instruction but Provocation 59
- 6 Toward a Perfect Whole 68
- 7 For the Younger Mind 76
- 8 The Written Word 89
- 9 Past into Present 101
- 10 Nothing in Excess 112
- 11 The Mystery of Beauty 119
- 12 The Priceless Ingredient 126
- 13 Of Gadgetry 133
- 14 The Happy Amateur 138
- 15 Vistas of Beauty 148
- Part III Freeman Tilden's Later Interpretive Writings
- 16 Mindsight: The Aim of Interpretation 161
- 17 That Elderly Schoolma'am: Nature 166
- 18 The Constructive Aspect of Inaction 174
- 19 Two Concord Men in a Boat 182
- 20 An Interpretive Ideal 187.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780807831809
- 0807831808
- 9780807858677
- 0807858676
- OCLC:
- 163708174
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