The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks

Terry Tempest Williams

May 2016 · Sold by Sarah Crichton Books

About this ebook

America’s national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why more than 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the environmental classic Refuge and the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds, returns with The Hour of Land, a literary celebration of our national parks, an exploration of what they mean to us and what we mean to them.

From the Grand Tetons in Wyoming to Acadia in Maine to Big Bend in Texas and more, Williams creates a series of lyrical portraits that illuminate the unique grandeur of each place while delving into what it means to shape a landscape with its own evolutionary history into something of our own making. Part memoir, part natural history, and part social critique, The Hour of Land is a meditation and a manifesto on why wild lands matter to the soul of America.

About the author

Terry Tempest Williams is the award-winning author of fifteen books,including Refuge: An Unnatural History of Familyand Place, Finding Beauty in a Broken World, andWhen Women Were Birds. Her work has been widelyanthologized around the world. She lives in CastleValley, Utah, with her husband, Brooke Williams.