{"product_id":"9781250132147","title":"The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn ode to our national parks, timed for the centennial, by the beloved author of \u003ci\u003eWhen Women Were Birds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmerica’s national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why more than 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now Terry Tempest Williams, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of the environmental classic \u003ci\u003eRefuge \u003c\/i\u003eand the beloved memoir \u003ci\u003eWhen Women Were Birds\u003c\/i\u003e, returns with\u003ci\u003e The Hour of Land\u003c\/i\u003e, a literary celebration of our national parks and an exploration of what they mean to us and what we mean to them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Grand Tetons in Wyoming to Acadia in Maine to Big Bend in Texas, Williams creates a series of lyrical portraits that illuminate the unique 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. Part memoir, part natural history, and part social critique, \u003ci\u003eThe Hour of Land\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation and a manifesto on why wild lands matter to the soul of America.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370392916029,"sku":"9781250132147","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781250132147_p0.jpg?v=1771588215","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9781250132147","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}