“The Power of Scenery”

Dennis Drabelle

If I was shelving this, I’d have a tough time deciding between “literature” and “history” as the genre. It went back and forth; some sections felt like pretty straight history, while others sent me back to freshman year of college, reading Walden and Thoreau for a class on “writing the Western landscape.”

Whichever genre this falls into, though, I did enjoy the read. For all that I love the national parks system, I didn’t know much about the history, and this book really told that story well.

A very enjoyable read; check it out.1