The
Compelling Story

Our books have fabulously beautiful pictures but if that is all, they would not stand the test of time.

Our publications interpret and convey each park unit and each park system as a contribution to this nation's values, character and experience.

There are many messengers who tell compelling stories. The trees and mounains speak loudly. It is called the "power of place." Our books play the role of facilitator--we help the reader come face to face with the real thing. We give voice to the wind.

Open the pages, look deeply into the pictures and you'll hear the wind's story.

Our books are designed to be read on four levels.

 

. . . the heart of scientific, historic, social, or economic understanding is also the heart of National park interpretation.

Freeman Tilden's Principles of Interpetation taught nature speakers to find innovative, thought provoking ways to tell stories about our natural resources. The broader meaning and significance of our land becomes the focus and our readers become participants, not spectators. The rocks, trees, rivers come to belong to the reader.

Proust said, "The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."