Creating Acadia National Park: The Biography of George Bucknam Dorr-Ronald Epp

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“Very mild edgewear and signs of use. Pages clean and unmarked.”
Release Year
2016
Narrative Type
Nonfiction
ISBN
9780996861403
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Publisher
Friends of Acadia
ISBN-10
0996861408
ISBN-13
9780996861403
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219131419

Product Key Features

Topic
Parks & Campgrounds
Publication Year
2016
Book Title
Creating Acadia National Park : the Biography of George Bucknam Dorr
Number of Pages
Xiv, 393 Pages
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel
Author
Ronald Epp
Format
Trade Paperback

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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2015-956685
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
974.1/45
Synopsis
Although he is known as the "father of Acadia" and a founder of the oldest national park east of the Mississippi River, George Bucknam Dorr's seminal contributions to the American environmental movement have gone largely unacknowledged. Even today, those who live in or visit the coastal Maine communities surrounding Acadia National Park do not fully realize the scope of his achievements. This biography is the story of Dorr's pioneering role in the establishment and development of a unique conservation model that dovetailed with the evolution of the US National Park Service--which shares its 2016 centennial with Acadia.Raised in Boston as a member of New England's elite merchant class, Dorr adopted Maine's Mount Desert Island as his home and the setting to apply the practical lessons of "Boston Brahmin" philanthropy that tracked back to his maternal grandfather, banker and Harvard College Treasurer Thomas Wren Ward. Yet through his finest work--the creation and management of Acadia National Park--and through his collaborations with park co-founders Charles W. Eliot, John D. Rockefeller Jr., and others--Dorr transformed an elitist social inheritance into an all-consuming commitment to conservation. One hundred years after its founding, this national treasure is visited, enjoyed, and beloved by millions every year.The first biography of George B. Dorr ever written, Creating Acadia National Park: the Biography of George Bucknam Dorr is based on painstaking research both in the US and abroad, including federal, state, and private archives. Newly-discovered and uncatalogued sources are supplemented by in-person interviews. This work will appeal to general and scholarly readers who care about the philanthropic roots of land conservation, those interested in what has been celebrated as "America's Best Idea," and above all, those who know and love Acadia National Park.
LC Classification Number
F27.M9E66 2016

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