The Quiet World: Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom, 1910-1960 Audiobook

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• “Brinkley carves well-known figures with the tools of a skilled biographer...This volume is required reading for anyone even mildly interested in the antecedents to US environmental policy in the twenty-first century.” 

  — Los Angeles Times

• “An important book.”

  — Houston Chronicle

• “A very readable history of the preservationist movement across the nation.”

  — Seattle Times

• “A richly detailed, passionate and partisan account...In lush prose, [Brinkley] captures Alaska’s pristine beauty.”

  — Minneapolis Star Tribune

• “In Brinkley’s hands, the still-raging battle to save Alaska’s wild character is riveting.”

  — Christian Science Monitor

• “Garman brings alive the voices of those who sought to protect Alaska wildness, including Theodore Roosevelt’s urgings to President Howard Taft to bring corporate “power to heel” and John Muir’s religious overtones when speaking of his beloved Glacier Bay...[An] engaging production.” 

  — AudioFile

• “Brinkley’s Alaskan history and pantheon of valiant conservationists is boldly original, enlightening, enthralling, and profoundly moving.

  — Booklist (starred review)

• “Brinkley delivers a vigorous, thorough survey of Alaska’s natural splendors, from John Muir’s first treks into Glacier Bay in 1879 to President Eisenhower’s establishment of the Arctic National Wildlife Range in 1960...[He] skillfully conveys how the natural beauty of Alaska worked its magic.”

  — Kirkus Reviews