Douglas Brinkley: 'The Quiet World'

Published: Feb. 24, 2011, 4:30 p.m.

b'Award-winning historian Douglas Brinkley discussed "The Quiet World: Saving Alaska\'s Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960" on Feb. 4, 2011 at The Seattle Public Library. Building on the environmental issues he discussed in "The Wilderness Warrior," Brinkley documents the fight to save wild Alaska -- Mount McKinley and Tongass and Chugach National Forests, among other treasured landscapes -- from despoilers.'