Ansel Adams Our National Parks Author:Andrea G. Stillman, William A. Turnage In the century and more since the establishment of the world's first national parks at Yosemite and Yellowstone, no one individual has been a more ardent champion of the "national park idea" than master photographer Ansel Adams. Over a span of six decades, beginning in 1916, Adams photographed America's great national par... more »ks, making thousands of pictures -- some of them among the most memorable images of the natural scene ever created. In this book a selection of Adams' legendary photographs of over forty national parks and monuments is presented, along with a sampling of his impassioned letters, speeches and writing -- all long out of print or never before published -- about the critical issues facing the park system. These insights and sometimes controversial writings by one of the great environmental thinkers of the twentieth century are as relevant today as when they were written.« less