The Quiet World, Douglas Brinkley
The Quiet World, Douglas Brinkley
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The Quiet World
Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom, 1910-1960

Author: Douglas Brinkley

Narrator: Andrew Garman

Unabridged: 23 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 01/18/2011

Synopsis

In this fascinating follow-up to his New York Times bestseller Wilderness Warrior, acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley offers a riveting, expansive look at the past and present battle to preserve Alaska’s wilderness. Brinkley explores the colorful diversity of Alaska’s wildlife, arrays the forces that have wreaked havoc on its primeval arctic refuge—from Klondike Gold Rush prospectors to environmental disasters like the Exxon-Valdez oil spill—and documents environmental heroes from Theodore Roosevelt to Dwight Eisenhower and beyond. Not merely a record of Alaska’s past, Quiet World is a compelling call-to-arms for sustainability, conservationism, and conscientious environmental stewardship—a warning that the land once called Seward’s Folly may go down in history as America’s Greatest Mistake.

About Douglas Brinkley

Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University, presidential historian for the New-York Historical Society, trustee of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. The Chicago Tribune dubbed him “America’s New Past Master.” He is the recipient of such distinguished environmental leadership prizes as the Frances K. Hutchison Medal (Garden Club of America), the Robin W. Winks Award for Enhancing Public Understanding of National Parks (National Parks Conservation Association), and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Lifetime Heritage Award. His book The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He was awarded a Grammy for Presidential Suite and is the recipient of seven honorary doctorates in American studies. His two-volume, annotated Nixon Tapes won the Arthur S. Link–Warren F. Kuehl Prize. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and three children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bookmarks Magazine

Douglas Brinkley has called his planned Wilderness Cycle his “lifework.” In general, critics seemed to respect the scope of what Brinkley is trying to do, but they were more likely to praise The Quiet World as an important work than one that deeply moved them. A few critics faulted the work for spen......more

Goodreads review by Todd

The Quiet World examines the history of environmental protection in Alaska between 1879 and 1960 (or from the early travels of John Muir through the creation of ANWR) including profiles of prominent figures in the conservation movement including John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot, Rockwe......more

Goodreads review by Sam

Gets pretty grindy around the middle 40-80%, but still really interesting and worth checking out. Alaska is a fascinating case study in American attitudes towards the environment, its geographical remoteness protecting much of it from the destruction Euro-Americans brought on the continental U.S. in......more

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