National Parks of the USA – Quatro

Description

Take a tour of America’s great outdoors and discover the beauty and diversity of its most iconic and majestic national parks.

Packed with maps and fascinatingfacts about the flora and faunaunique to each of the21 parks portrayed, thislushly illustratedcoast-to-coast journey documentsin large formatthe nation’s most magnificent and sacred places – and shows why they should be preserved for future generations to enjoy.

Explore Florida’s river-laced Everglades, travel down the white water rapids of the Grand Canyon, trek across the deserts of Death Valley and scale the soaring summits of the Rocky Mountains with this book thatbrings you up close to nature’s greatest adventures.

Divided by region (East, Central, Rocky Mountains, West, Tropics and Alaska), a pictographic map at the start of each section shows the locations of the parks to be covered.Each park is introduced by a stunning, poster-worthy illustration of one of its scenesand a summary of its makeup, followed byindividual illustrations of the animals and plants that make their homes there.

Captions providecaptivating information about the wildlife. Did you know that Everglades National Park is home to marsh rabbits who paddle through its swamps searching for herbs, flowers and other plants to nibble on? Or that the pronghorn antelopes of Badlands National Park are the continent’s fastest land animals, sprinting up to 60 miles per hour to escape predators like bobcats and coyotes?

A‘Can you spot this… ?’ pageat the back challenges you to find a pictured critter or plant for every letter of the alphabet.

The parks include:Acadia, Badlands, Big Bend, Biscayne, Bryce Canyon, Channel Islands, Death Valley, Denali, Everglades, Glacier, Glacier Bay, Grand Canyon, Great Smoky Mountains, Hawaii volcanoes, Isle Royale, Mesa Verde, Olympic, Sequoia and Kings Canyon, Virgin Islands, Yellowstone, and Yosemite.

A book to be treasured by children and adults alike,National Parks of the USAserves to inspire the adventuring naturalist in all of us.

Brimming with facts, activities and beautiful illustrations, theNational Parks of the USA seriesof books immerses young people in the wonders of America’s outdoors. Learn about the wonderful wildlife, stunning scenery and rare plants that inhabit these precious outdoor spaces. Celebrate these beautiful and rare locations, and be awed by the diversity and grandeur of the national parks’ living landscapes.