The Hour of Land

An ode to our national parks, timed for the centennial, by the beloved author of When Women Were Birds. Longlisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year America’s national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why more than 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the environmental classic Refuge and the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds , re