Global Experience: Readings in World History since 1500, Vol. 2 Book

This is not a travel book for your first visit to the park. That is the mistake that I made. I felt constantly frustrated with this book while reading it during my trip to the park. There are very few pictures and I was constantly confused as to what he was talking about. There is also an extensive geologic and botanical vocabulary necessary to even understand a lot of it. Being in the park, I had no service and couldn't google for further explanation. I also found the layout of the book frustrating in how the chapters were divided. I would have preferred a chapter about an area and then learned about the animal and plant life, and human history for each part of the park. These were all broad separate chapters. The language was also superfluous in its descriptions, and I was not surprised to read that the author is a poet. I still learned about the park, the book is quite thorough in that aspect.