In Framing Nature Yolonda Youngs traces the idea of the Grand Canyon as an icon and the ways people came to know it through popular imagery and visual media. Framing Nature provides a novel interpretation of how places, especially national parks, are transformed into national and environmental symbols.
In Framing Nature Yolonda Youngs traces the idea of the Grand Canyon as an icon and the ways people came to know it through popular imagery and visual media. Framing Nature provides a novel interpretation of how places, especially national parks, are transformed into national and environmental symbols.
Yolonda Youngs is a professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at California State University, San Bernardino. She is the coeditor of The American Environment Revisited: Environmental Historical Geographies of the United States.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations A Selected Chronology of Grand Canyon National Park Introduction: A View from the Rim Part 1. Finding the Grand Canyon 1. The Greater Grand Canyon Region 2. A Great Innovation in Modern Ideas of Scenery: The Emergence of the Grand Canyon on the American Cultural Scene, 18869–892 3. The Viewmakers: The People Behind the Scenes of Postcard Manufacturing Part 2. Creating the Grand Canyon 4. Nature as Tourism 5. Scenic Drives Part 3. Framing the View 6. Editing Nature 7. People In (and Out of) Place 8. Canyon Be Dammed 9. Where Is the “Real” Grand Canyon? Conclusion: From Rim to River and Beyond Appendix A: Annual Visitation Statistics for GRCA Appendix B: Park Visitation Statistics, Content Analysis Decoded, Data Tables References Index
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations A Selected Chronology of Grand Canyon National Park Introduction: A View from the Rim Part 1. Finding the Grand Canyon 1. The Greater Grand Canyon Region 2. A Great Innovation in Modern Ideas of Scenery: The Emergence of the Grand Canyon on the American Cultural Scene, 18869–892 3. The Viewmakers: The People Behind the Scenes of Postcard Manufacturing Part 2. Creating the Grand Canyon 4. Nature as Tourism 5. Scenic Drives Part 3. Framing the View 6. Editing Nature 7. People In (and Out of) Place 8. Canyon Be Dammed 9. Where Is the “Real” Grand Canyon? Conclusion: From Rim to River and Beyond Appendix A: Annual Visitation Statistics for GRCA Appendix B: Park Visitation Statistics, Content Analysis Decoded, Data Tables References Index
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