Writing Westward Podcast Episode 007 - Terence Young - Heading Out: A History of American Camping

A conversation with geographer Terence Young about his book, Heading Out: A History of American Camping.

Writing Westward Podcast
Episode 007
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Terence Young

Heading Out: A History of American Camping
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2017.

 

 
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A conversation with geographer Terence Young about his book, Heading Out: A History of American Camping. Young's book offers a fascinating history of the key moments when camping in America developed, evolved, and grew. It is written in a style that will please both general readers and scholars.

Terence Young is a professor emeritus of geography at California State Polytechnic University. He has published widely on camping, parks, sustainability, and other topics of the environment, geography, and history. Heading Out won the 2018 Hal K. Rothman Award from the Western History Association for the Best Book of Western Environmental History, and the 2018 J.B. Jackson Prize from the American Association of Geographers. He also published Building San Francisco's Parks: 1850-1930 in Johns Hopkins University Press' "Creating the North American Landscape Series" in 2008.

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