Swadling, Mark, ed.

IUCN ; WCMC ; Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage ; ICOMOS

This magnificient publication vividly portrays the beauty and grandeur of World Heritages Sites in North America - where the ideas of national parks, wilderness preservation and the World Heritage Convention began. The astonishing range of natural geological and architectural sites includes the largest nonpolar icefield in the world in Yukon; a volcanic crater encompassing half of Yellowstone Park; the archaeological finds of Teotihuacan in Mexico; and the uniqueness of the Florida Everglades