This is a distinguished work - the writing crisp, and the photos captivating: you will yearn to visit every wild place that it covers. Roly Smith's lively text makes damn good reading - sprinkled with just the right of amount of history, geology and personal anecdote. The dazzling images, so dramatically captured by the brilliant David Muench, seem to suspend time as you ponder them, lingering long after you've turned the page. This remarkable book artfully nourishes our instinctive love for wild and lovely places; it inspires us to protect them; and, best of all, it encourages us to get on our boots and engage them; --Lee Stetson, John Muir Interpreter, Yosemite Centennial Ambassador 2016; Roly Smith outlines the story of the national parks and then describes each park succinctly and clearly, with his love of these wild places shining through and a few of his own adventures thrown in - the last giving the book a nice personal touch. Along with his words. the glorious photogaphs of David Muench really show the beauty and majesty of these landscapes. I've been to nine of the places in the book. Now there are twelve more I want to visit!;The book has been well-designed and produced by Rucksack Readers and looks wonderful. I read it straight through but will undoubtedly dip into it again and again. It's not long, just 96 pages, but in those pages there's an astonishing amount to excite and inspire every lover of wild nature.;--Chris Townsend writing in Outdoor Focus (Winter 2015/16);The writing style is proudly informative and it's truly fantastic in its history - lots of details about the explorers who originally found the parks with unknown facts woven in. The photographs are stunning, there's a little map of the USA on each pointing to where it is, and the ratio of photographs to text is just right. It will absolutely make you want to go to at least 10 of them right now!;--E Fox, a Vine Voice, Amazon.co.uk
