Terry Tempest Williams The Hour of Land A Personal Topography of America's National Parks

Terry Tempest Williams, presents her new book, The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks. Close to 300 million people visit America's national parks each year. To honor the centennial of the National Park Service, Tempest Williams writes of our national parks -- what they mean to us and what we mean to them -- in this part memoir, part natural history, part social critique. Through 12 carefully chosen parks, from Yellowstone in Wyoming to Acadia in Maine to Big Bend in Texas, Tempest Williams creates a series of lyrical portraits that show the 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. The book includes black-and-white images by reknowned photographers (from Sally Mann to Sebastiao Salgado).