Interpreting Our Heritage, Freeman Tilden
Interpreting Our Heritage, Freeman Tilden
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Interpreting Our Heritage
Fourth Edition, Expanded and Updated

Author: Freeman Tilden, Russell E. Dickenson, R. Bruce Craig

Narrator: Adam Barr

Unabridged: 6 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/23/2021


Synopsis

Every year millions of Americans visit national parks and monuments, state and municipal parks, battlefields, historic houses, and museums. By means of guided walks and talks, tours, exhibits, and signs, visitors experience these areas through a very special kind of communication technique known as "interpretation." For fifty years, Freeman Tilden's Interpreting Our Heritage has been an indispensable sourcebook for those who are responsible for developing and delivering interpretive programs. This expanded and revised anniversary edition includes not only Tilden's classic work but also five additional essays by Tilden on the art and craft of interpretation, a new foreword by former National Park Service director Russell Dickenson, and an introduction by R. Bruce Craig that puts Tilden's writings into perspective for present and future generations.

Whether the challenge is to make a prehistoric site come to life; to explain the geological basis behind a particular rock formation; to touch the hearts and minds of visitors to battlefields, historic homes, and sites; or to teach a child about the wonders of the natural world, Tilden's book, with its explanation of the famed "six principles" of interpretation, provides a guiding hand.

About Freeman Tilden

Freeman Tilden (1883-1980) was a pioneer in the field of natural and cultural interpretation. A former journalist, playwright, and novelist, he began writing about America's national parks in the 1940s with the encouragement of National Park Service director Newton Drury. This led to four books on visiting, learning, and teaching about national and state parks and other heritage areas, of which Interpreting Our Heritage remains the most influential.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Francesca on October 06, 2019

Highly influential amongst interpreters and rangers in the National Park Service (NPS), Freeman Tilden’s Interpreting Our Heritage is considered by many as either the gold standard or cornerstone of modern-day heritage interpretation. Originally published in 1957 when education as a field was instru......more

Goodreads review by Brooke on February 13, 2023

NPS ❤️......more

Goodreads review by H. on May 03, 2016

A foundational work in public history, and still well worth a read. I think, knowing its significance, I went in expecting something dense, theoretical, textbook-y. It is theoretical, but in a very friendly, conversational way, and it's a short book, so I think the interested public could also get a......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on January 23, 2022

Truly amazing book.......more

Goodreads review by meg on October 02, 2017

A museum-field classic. Clear-eyed and finely written. Love this man.......more