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Essential Books These 6 items are available for $83, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXRKY105)		  
Compass Guide Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks  •  Brian Kevin
GUIDEBOOK •  2012 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES
It's the dazzling photographs that draw you into this re-launched, thoroughly compelling overview of the park, its attractions, nature and allure. With hundreds of superb, full-page photographs, dozens of maps and an overview of accommodations and practicalities. (USW577, $19.99)		   Compass Guide Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks
Yellowstone, A Visitor's Companion  •  George Wuerthner
GUIDEBOOK •  1992 •  PAPER  • 218 PAGES
A handbook to the geology, ecology, wildlife and plants of Yellowstone. With photographs, a bird list, and brief field guide with black-and-white drawings. (USW54, $15.95)		   Yellowstone, A Visitor's Companion
Decade of the Wolf, Returning the Wild to Yellowstone  •  Douglas Smith  •  Gary Ferguson
NATURAL HISTORY •  2012 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES
Biologist Smith (Yellowstone Wolf Recovery Project) and nature writer Ferguson look at the 10 years since the re-introduction of wolves to Yellowstone. (RKY90, $16.95)		   Decade of the Wolf, Returning the Wild to Yellowstone
Lost in My Own Backyard  •  Tim Cahill
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2004 •  HARD COVER  • 160 PAGES
Tim Cahill (who, as advertised, lives at Yellowstone's doorstep) brings his talents closer to home as he mixes tales of walks, hikes and three good backcountry treks with history, lore and gee-whiz wonder in this inspiring entry in the Crown Journeys series. (USW430, $16.95)		   Lost in My Own Backyard
Yellowstone Wildlife  •  Pocket Naturalist
FIELD GUIDE •  2006 •  PLASTIC CARD
This handy plastic card illustrates the birds, mammals, fishes, amphibians and reptiles of Yellowstone. (RKY88, $5.95)		   Yellowstone Wildlife
Yellowstone National Park Map  •  Trails Illustrated
2011 •  MAP
A hiker's overview map with great topographic detail, at a scale of 1:126,000, published in association with the National Geographic Society. Two Sides. 37x26 inches. (USW32, $11.95)		   Yellowstone National Park Map



Also Recommended

Grand Teton National Park Map  •  Trails Illustrated    •  A detailed topographic map of Grand Teton National Park. (USW34, $11.95)
 		  
Day Hikes In Yellowstone National Park, 80 Great Hikes  •  Robert Stone   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An excellent guide to the best hikes in the area, including both popular geyser trails and those off the beaten path. Contains maps and concise descriptions for each hike. (USW566, $13.95)
 		  
Lonely Planet Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks  •  Bradley Mayhew  •  Carolyn McCarthy   • GUIDEBOOK  •  With personality and local savvy, Montana residents Bradley Mayhew and Carolyn McCarthy cover the practicalities of where to go and what to do. With more photographs, detailed itineraries, family-friendly options, suggested hikes, two-color maps and a good overview of natural history. (USW438, $19.99)
 		  
The Yellowstone Winter Guide  •  Jeff Henry   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A practical guide to Yellowstone in winter geared towards snowmobilers. With maps, ski trails, color photographs -- and a chapter on wildlife. (USW69, $13.95)
 		  
Volcanoes in America's National Parks  •  Robert & Barbara Decker   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A geophysicist at Dartmouth and former scientist-at-charge of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, Robert Decker writes winningly of the formation, diversity and allure of volcanoes from Yellowstone to Hawaii and Alaska in this compact, illustrated guide featuring 255 color photographs and 28 outstanding maps. (USW514, $24.95)
 		  
Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park  •  Lee H. Whittlesey   • HISTORY  •  A how-to-guide to safety in the park -- and a wry chronicle of what can go terribly wrong (including death by drowning, hypothermia, animal attacks, and such). A reminder to visitors that Yellowstone is the wilderness, not an amusement park. (USW276, $16.95)
 		  
Do (Not) Feed the Bears, The Fitful History of Wildlife and Tourists in Yellowstone  •  Alice Wondrak Biel   • HISTORY  •  Biel goes beyond Yogi and Smokey, showing changing attitudes toward the bears from the 19th-century up to current conservation policy. (SWU465, $15.95)
 		  
The Spirit of Yellowstone  •  Judith L. Meyer  •  Vance Howard   • HISTORY  •  An engaging, scholarly history of Yellowstone and its place in America's imagination, covering the establishment of the park, geography, wildlife, and more. Complemented by color photographs, archival illustrations and maps. (RKY25, $19.95)
 		  
The Yellowstone Story, A History of Our First National Park, Volume 2  •  Aubrey L. Haines   • HISTORY  •  The second entry in a two volume history of the park. (USW384, $24.95)
 		  
Journal of a Trapper  •  Osborne Russell  •  Aubrey L. Haines   • EXPLORATION  •  A simply told account of the life of a fur trapper in the 1830s and 1840s, mainly in and around Yellowstone. It's both an eyewitness report from the heydey of fur trading and an engaging account of the region. (USW439, $18.95)
 		  
Travels in the Greater Yellowstone  •  Jack Turner   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Turner celebrates the diversity of the park and its wildlife in a series of 12 lyrical essays. (USW563, $15.95)
 		  
Wapiti Wilderness  •  Margaret Murie  •  Olaus Murie   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Margaret and her biologist husband (who did the illustrations for the book) write of a winter, and especially the elk, at a ranch in Jackson Hole. They alternate chapters, mixing tales of work as a field biologist with stories of life in the region, where they lived for 37 years. (USW68, $24.95)
 		  
A Naturalist's Guide to Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Park  •  Frank C. Craighead, Jr.   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A memoir and classic natural history of the wildlife of Jackson Hole and the Tetons by a celebrated local biologist, organized week-by-week throughout the year. (SWU168, $18.95)
 		  
Bear Attacks, Their Causes and Avoidance  •  Stephen Herrero   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Despite its frightening title, this book is a helpful introduction to the natural history and behavior of the bear by a long-term researcher in the field. With useful tips on "avoidance." (BST21, $16.95)
 		  
In the Presence of Grizzlies  •  Doug Peacock   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A compelling chronicle of the complicated and sometimes tragic interactions between grizzlies and humans, revealed through interviews with biologists, hunters and mauling victims, and observations of the bears themselves. (BST134, $16.95)
 		  
Mountain Time, A Yellowstone Portrait  •  Paul Schullery   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A former ranger, Schullery writes with depth and grace of the natural history of Yellowstone National Park, its wildlife, rangers, and visitors in this classic collection of essays, originally published in 1984. (USW392, $19.95)
 		  
Searching For Yellowstone, Ecology and Wonder in the Last Wilderness  •  Paul D. Schullery   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  An engaging social and environmental history of Yellowstone from the Pleistocene to the present focusing on the park since its founding in 1872. Schullery has worked in Yellowstone as a ranger, a historian and the chief of cultural resources. (USW59, $19.95)
 		  
Spectacular Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks  •  Charles R. Preston   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Three hundred color photographs, including panoramic six-page foldout spreads, archival pictures and essays on history and ecology, capture the splendor of these national parks. (USW547, $50.00)
 		  
Windows into the Earth, The Geologic Story of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks  •  Robert B. Smith  •  Lee J. Siegel   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A geologic history and tour of the northern Rockies, particularly Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. With an outstanding overview of the geologic formation of the region and 50 color photographs. (USW356, $29.95)
 		  
Wolves, A Legend Returns to Yellowstone  •  National Geographic   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Four years in the making, this amazing National Geographic documentary by Bob Landis invites you to run with the pack for a wolf's-eye view of Yellowstone. (BST136, $24.95)
 		  
Yellowstone Country, The Enduring Wonder  •  Seymour L. Fishbein   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  An overview of Yellowstone presented in the style of National Geographic, featuring spectacular color photographs, maps and good travel information. (SWU76, $16.00)
 		  
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America  •  David Sibley   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A compact, geographically specific version of the Sibley Guide with all-new range maps, the same glorious illustrations and expanded, extremely valuable descriptions of each bird. (USW418, $19.95)
 		  
Yellowstone Trees & Wildflowers  •  James Kavanagh   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A handy, laminated fold-up card. (USW501, $5.95)
 		  
 
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