Yellowstone, Land of Wonders: Promenade in North America's National Park
by Jules Leclercq (Author), Janet Chapple (Editor, Translator), Suzanne Cane (Editor, Translator)
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In the summer of 1883 Belgian travel writer Jules Leclercq spent ten days on horseback in Yellowstone, the world's first national park, exploring myriad natural wonders: astonishing geysers, majestic waterfalls, the vast lake, and the breathtaking canyon. He also recorded the considerable human activity, including the rampant vandalism. Leclercq's account of his travels is itself a small marvel blending natural history, firsthand impressions, scientific lore, and anecdote. Along with his observations on the park's long-rumored fountains of boiling water and mountains of glass, Leclercq describes camping near geysers, washing clothes in a bubbling hot spring, and meeting such diverse characters as local guides and tourists from the United States and Europe. Notables including former president Ulysses S. Grant and then-president Chester A. Arthur were also in the park that summer to inaugurate the newly completed leg of the Northern Pacific Railroad.
A sensation in Europe, the book was never published in English. This deft translation at long last makes available to English-speaking readers a masterpiece of western American travel writing that is a fascinating historical document in its own right.
Jules Leclercq (1848-1928), who wrote twenty-three travelogues, was a judge by profession and a founding member of the Royal Belgian Geographical Society. Janet Chapple is the author of Yellowstone Treasures: The Traveler's Companion to the National Park. Suzanne Cane is a librarian and independent French translator.
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- Title
- Yellowstone, Land of Wonders: Promenade in North America's National Park
- Author
- Jules Leclercq (Author), Janet Chapple (Editor, Translator), Suzanne Cane (Editor, Translator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
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- New
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- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0803244770
- ISBN 13
- 9780803244771
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Place of Publication
- Lincoln And London:
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- Jules Leclercq, Travel writing, Yellowstone, National Park, Geysers, Waterfalls, Nature, Travel, western American travel writing, US history, America, Wyoming,
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- National Parks;
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