Interpreting Our Heritage

by Tilden, Freeman

• ISBN13: 9780807858677
• ISBN10: 0807858676
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-18
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

For fifty years, Interpreting Our Heritage has been an indispensable sourcebook for those who are responsible for and who respond to interpretive materials at national parks and monuments. This anniversary edition includes an entirely new selection of photographs, six additional essays by Freeman Tilden, and a new foreword and introduction that put this classic work into perspective for present and future generations. Whether the problem is to make a prehistoric site come to life or to explain the geological theory behind a particular rock formation, Tilden provides helpful principles to follow.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction to the Fourth Edition	p. 1
Principles of Interpretation	p. 25
The Visitor's First Interest	p. 36
Raw Material and Its Product	p. 44
The Story's the Thing	p. 53
Not Instruction but Provocation	p. 59
Toward a Perfect Whole	p. 68
For the Younger Mind	p. 76
The Written Word	p. 89
Past into Present	p. 101
Nothing in Excess	p. 112
The Mystery of Beauty	p. 119
The Priceless Ingredient	p. 126
Of Gadgetry	p. 133
The Happy Amateur	p. 138
Vistas of Beauty	p. 148
Freeman Tilden's Later Interpretive Writings
Mindsight: The Aim of Interpretation	p. 161
That Elderly Schoolma'am: Nature	p. 166
The Constructive Aspect of Inaction	p. 174
Two Concord Men in a Boat	p. 182
An Interpretive Ideal	p. 187
Index	p. 201
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