National Parks

Discover the rich history of America's national parks with essential titles selected by RCL editors. Resources for College Libraries (RCL) features core titles for academic libraries, curated by Choice/ACRL subject specialists. In this list, preview a selection of the 90,000+ titles available at rclweb.net.

Updated June 30, 2025
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National parks : the American experience
Runte, Alfred
Paper Book
Revised with a new epilogue, "We the People," this fifth edition of National Parks: TheAmerican Experience continues the highly engaging story of how Americans invented and expanded the concept of national parks. A prominent adviser to the Ken Burns Emmy Award-winning documentary,...
Desert solitaire
Abbey, Edward
Paper Book
"A passionately felt, deeply poetic book. It has philosophy. It has humor. It has its share of nerve-tingling adventures...set down in a lean, racing prose, in a close-knit style of power and beauty."@THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOKREVIEW@Edward Abbey lived for three seasons in the desert at Moab, Utah, and...
America's public lands : from Yellowstone to Smokey Bear and beyond
Wilson, Randall K.
Paper Book
How it is that the United States--the country that cherishes the ideal of private property more than any other in the world--has chosen to set aside nearly one-third of its land area as public lands? Now in a fully revised and updated edition covering the first years of the Trump administration,...
Building the national parks : historic landscape design and construction
McClelland, Linda Flint.
Paper Book
The Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency, was founded in 1942 by William 'Wild Bill' Donovan under the direction of President Roosevelt, who realized the need to improve intelligence during wartime. A rigorous recruitment process enlisted agents from both...

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