WILDERNESS: The Discovery of a Continent of Wonder

BRAND NEW & Collectible. First Edition, First Thus. Gilt embossed green linen boards/Fine. DJ/Fine; under mylar. History of America's wildlife and natural landscape from Western intrusion to the 1950s. Documented by scholar, naturalist, botanist and photographer Rutherford Hayes Platt (1894 - 1975), twice participant in polar expeditions. A vast wilderness that took humans 300 years to explore, taime & trnasform from east to west. 310 pgs w/illustrations in 11 chapters: I, This Surprising Continent; II, The Foundations of the Wilderness; III, The Vikings Visit Big Land to the West; IV, The East Coast Wilderness; V, The First News of Wilderness Wonders; VI, The Green Woods Wilderness; VII, The North Pine Wilderness; VIII, The Far Grass Wilderness; IX, The Monster Moutain Wilderness; X, The Sand & Rock Wilderness, and XI, The West Coast Wilderness, followed by Postscript.