#literary landscapes
Reading the Landscape
This month, we are celebrating a few of the authors, journalists, and poets associated with places that we now know as part of the National Park System. The NPS helps to preserve the legacy and perspective of writers through park cultural landscapes, allowing us to envision the places in which their words were imagined.
The NPS preserves places that are associated with the literary contributions of specific individuals, like John Muir National Historic Site andEdgar Allan Poe National Historic Site, but literary discoveries are not limited to those parks.
John Muir, ca. 1910 (NPS / JOMU 3520)
Some of these written expressions are our first introduction to a place, leading us to it or reflecting the historic character of a park cultural landscape. Others reveal the author’s unique relationship to those surroundings. Sometimes, the landscape acts as the entryway to discover the writing, giving dimension to the words.
Whether you are planning summer reading or a summer road trip, we hope you find new places to explore in our landscapes of literature mini-series.
Follow along, catch up, or add you own favorites with #literarylandscapes.
Featured:
- Adolph Murie: Wildlife Biologist, Conservationist (Denali National Park & Preserve)
- Writings of John Muir (Sierra Club)
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