National Parks Traveler Episode 136: What's In Your National Park Library?

By NPT Staff - September 19th, 2021

Can you ever have enough books in your personal national parks library? Well, not if you’re a true parks enthusiast. Odds are, you’ll run out of bookshelf space before you run out of titles on the parks.

What books should be in that library at home? Kurt Repanshek and John Miles, National ParksTraveler's book review editor, discuss titles you definitely should have on hand.

:02 National Parks Traveler introduction
:12 Episode introduction with Kurt Repanshek
1:05 Kurt Repanshek and John Miles, Traveler's book review editor, discuss national park books you should have in your personal library.
23:14 The Offering - Bill Mize - The Sounds of the Great Smoky Mountains
23:33 Western National Parks Association
23:54 Yosemite Conservancy
24:17 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
24:38 Potrero Group
25:06 North Cascades Institute
25:24 Nova Scotia Tourism
25:56 Kurt and John continue their discussion about books related to the national parks.
43:22 Bass Harbor - Nature’s Symphony - The Sounds of Acadia
44:07 Episode Closing
44:50 Washington’s National Park Fund
45:26 Interior Federal Credit Union
46:00 Friends of Acadia
46:27 Grand Teton National Park Foundation
46:59 Orange Tree Productions
47:32 Splitbeard Productions
47:42 National Parks Traveler footer

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