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Last barriers : photographs of wilderness in the Gulf Islands National Seashore / Donald Muir Bradburn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bradburn, Donald Muir.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wilderness areas--Gulf Islands National Seashore (Fla. and Miss.)--Pictorial works.
- Wilderness areas.
- Natural history--Gulf Islands National Seashore (Fla. and Miss.)--Pictorial works.
- Natural history.
- Landscapes--Gulf Islands National Seashore (Fla. and Miss.)--Pictorial works.
- Landscapes.
- Gulf Islands National Seashore (Fla. and Miss.)--Pictorial works.
- Gulf Islands National Seashore (Fla. and Miss.).
- Horn Island (Miss.)--Pictorial works.
- Horn Island (Miss.).
- Gulf Islands National Seashore (Fla. and Miss.)--Environmental conditions.
- Horn Island (Miss.)--Environmental conditions.
- Gulf Islands National Seashore (Fla. and Miss.)--Description and travel.
- Horn Island (Miss.)--Description and travel.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (148 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson, Miss. : University Press of Mississippi, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Rarely has a book of photography performed a more poignant and immediate service in preserving a natural Mississippi wonder. The Mississippi Gulf Coast barrier islands captured the heart and mind of Donald Bradburn (b. 1924) in childhood. He became fascinated with the natural history and ornithology he witnessed. To him, the islands, especially Horn Island with its dark forests, high dunes, and deserted beaches, represented unbounded freedom and the ideal of a timeless world. Years later, when the National Park Service threatened to open the islands to ""almost unlimited opportunities for camp
- Contents:
- Cover; CONTENTS; SAVING HORN AND PETIT BOIS ISLANDS: The History of a campaign for Wilderness; PHOTOGRAPHS; AFTERWORD
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-19339-6
- 9786613193391
- 1-60473-982-7
- OCLC:
- 745970894
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