This 1992 books visit some of the newer National Parks in the United States. Traveling in a great loop around the nation's edges we encounter North Cascades NP in Washington state on the Canadian border, Voyageurs NP along the lakes that divide Minnesota and Ontario, Theodore Roosevelt NP in the North Dakota badlands, Channel Islands NP off the California coast, Guadalupe Mountains NP in west Texas (where the Chihuahuan Desert meets the hills), Biscayne NP on Florida's Atlantic coast (more under water than above), and finally over four million acres of Alaskan lakes, mountains and coastline in Katmai NP.

The variety in this book will delight any armchair traveler. The National Geographic photography lives up to that organization's stellar reputation.

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