Guide To National Parks: Heartland Region (NPCA national park guide) [Paperback]

Russell Butcher (Editor)

Book Description

Series: NPCA Guides to National Parks | Publication Date: September 1, 1999

Covers parks in IL, IN, IA, KS, MI, MN, MO, NE, ND, OH, SD, and WI with detailed descriptions and stunning, full-color photos.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

The National Parks and Conservation Association (NPCA) and Globe Pequot Press have teamed together to compile a series of guides to the National Parks of the United States. The series comprises eight books, each of which covers a geographical region of the United States and its territories. Each volume highlights several major parks, with contact information, brief descriptions, and directions for all the other parks, monuments, and military parks in the region. The entries on the featured parks include full-color Trails Illustrated (National Geographic) maps, dozens of color photographs, and more. A brief history of the NPCA is also included in each volume. The only disappointment is that more parks were not given full coverage. These books, used in conjunction with other travel guides, could become essential for anyone planning a vacation in a national park. An excellent addition to any library, both public and academic.ASandra Knowles, Henderson Cty. P.L., Hendersonville, NC
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Back Cover

Guide to National Parks: Heartland Region takes you on a tour of the region's national parks with detailed descriptions of notable park features and stunning, full-color photography. This guide also includes listings of all wilderness areas and attractions within the region managed by the National Park Service. With this book, you not only have a guide in your pocket, but a souvenir of your time spent at these beautiful parks. (7 x 10', 112 pages, color maps and photos)

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Globe Pequot; 1st edition (September 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 076270571X
• ISBN-13: 978-0762705719
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,791,824 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars What this guide cries out for is maps, April 9, 2000

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Allan M. Gathercoal "fdoamerica" (Norcross, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Guide To National Parks: Southeast Region (NPCA national park guide) (Paperback)

You have a wealth available to you that is truly priceless. The National Parks of America hold in trust for all Americans over 80.7 million acres of land. Over 50 times more that all of what Ted Turner owns and far beyond Bill Gates financial ability to buy. All of this, the best America has to offer, is yours for the taking, or visiting . To know what is yours is the purpose of the Guide to National Parks. Each of these eight guides have a smattering of color photos, a meager scattering of full-color trail maps and a brief, but good, highlight of each park's most impressive features. Guide to National Parks: Southeast Region covers 75 national parks in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina Tennessee, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

What this guide cries out for is maps, maps and more maps. What you get is one master map and eight color maps. That's it... that all you get to help you navigate 75 national parks - pathetic.

The key page is a two-page Southeast Region Map but there is nothing linking you from this map to where in the book the park is described. The master map doesn't have any numbers or references. To complicate matters more there is no index, so you can't reference the parks name and go to the page. Rather you return to the table of contents and search there for the park. Sixty eight parks have no map at all. For example; Cumberland Island National Seashore (36,415 acres) no map, or Biscayne National Park (172,924 acres) no map - you get the idea. This is a serious short coming that if corrected would truly enhance the value and usefulness of this book. Conditionally Recommend.