History Comics: the National Parks
Preserving America's Wild Places
First Second · Print & ebook · May 24, 2022
Let this graphic novel be your time machine—experience history like never before!
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- Who it’s for
- A graphic history traces how America’s national parks began, changed, and came to matter.
- Themes
- National park history, Wilderness conservation, National parks and American identity
- Genres
- Comics History, Symbols & Monuments, Protecting the Planet
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Let this graphic novel be your time machine—experience history like never before! Our past is only the beginning with History Comics. In this volume, The National Parks: Preserving America's Wild Places, turn back the clock to 1872, when Congress established Yellowstone National Park as an area of unspoiled beauty for the "benefit and enjoyment of the people."
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Meet the visionaries, artists, and lovers of the American wilderness who fought against corruption and self-interest to carve out and protect these spaces for future generations. See for yourself how the idea of National Parks began, how they've changed, and how they continue to define America.
Wild Places, Public History
A graphic history traces how America’s national parks began, changed, and came to matter.
Come here for
- The origins of national parks and the fight to protect them
- Wilderness history with civic stakes
Expect
- An illustrated account of parks’ changing role in America
- Visionaries, artists, and advocates in the preservation story
Where it sits
| Symbols & Monuments | 60% |
|---|---|
| Protecting the Planet | 56% |
| Comics History | 49% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Symbols & Monuments
- Protecting the Planet
- Comics Science & Nature
- Authors
- Falynn Koch
- Publisher
- First Second
- Published
- May 24, 2022
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- National park history · Wilderness conservation · National parks and American identity
- Reading lane
- Symbols & Monuments