{"product_id":"interpreting-our-heritage-9780807858677","title":"Interpreting Our Heritage","description":"Every year millions of Americans visit national parks and monuments, state and municipal parks, battlefields, historic houses, and museums. By means of guided walks and talks, tours, exhibits, and signs, visitors experience these areas through a very special kind of communication technique known as \"interpretation.\" For fifty years, Freeman Tilden's \u003ci\u003eInterpreting Our Heritage\u003c\/i\u003e has been an indispensable sourcebook for those who are responsible for developing and delivering interpretive programs. This expanded and revised anniversary edition includes not only Tilden's classic work but also an entirely new selection of accompanying photographs, five additional essays by Tilden on the art and craft of interpretation, a new foreword by former National Park Service director Russell Dickenson, and an introduction by R. Bruce Craig that puts Tilden's writings into perspective for present and future generations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhether the challenge is to make a prehistoric site come to life; to explain the geological basis behind a particular rock formation; to touch the hearts and minds of visitors to battlefields, historic homes, and sites; or to teach a child about the wonders of the natural world, Tilden's book, with its explanation of the famed \"six principles\" of interpretation, provides a guiding hand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor anyone interested in our natural and historic heritage -- park volunteers and rangers, museum docents and educators, new and seasoned professional heritage interpreters, and those lovingly characterized by Tilden as \"happy amateurs\" -- \u003ci\u003eInterpreting Our Heritage\u003c\/i\u003e and Tilden's later interpretive writings, included in this edition, collectively provide the essential foundation for bringing into focus the truths that lie beyond what the eye sees.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Freeman Tilden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/18\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.71h x 5.49w x 0.53d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807858677\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e4th Updated Edition\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ripon Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44147047432237,"sku":"9780807858677","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0681\/0501\/1245\/files\/img_b8c47872-60c1-454e-9f32-92c67915757b.jpg?v=1757181502","url":"https:\/\/riponbookstore.com\/products\/interpreting-our-heritage-9780807858677","provider":"Ripon Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}