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National park roads : a legacy in the American landscape / Timothy Davis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davis, Timothy, 1958- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National parks and reserves--United States--Management--History.
- National parks and reserves.
- Roads--United States--Design and construction--History.
- Roads.
- Automobile travel--United States--History.
- Automobile travel.
- National parks and reserves--Management.
- Roads--Design and construction.
- History.
- Management.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 330 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 32 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- The origins of national park roads
- Touring America's wonderlands
- Embracing the automobile
- Reconciling the machine and the garden
- The "golden age" of park road building
- Trouble in paradise
- National parkways
- Mission 66 and its discontents
- Adjusting the balance
- Epilogue: looking down the road.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813937762
- 0813937760
- OCLC:
- 915159338
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