Conor Knighton

I believe I heard about this book in BookPage. I wasn't sure what to expect--would it be what we used to call a "coffee table book" with a section about each park along with photos?

I would imagine trying to plan out visits to each U.S. National Park within the span of a year took some doing. Researching what times would be best to visit each park to see its best points or special events . . . or would it be better to do them in alphabetical order . . . or better to do them by proximity?

Conor Knighton started out his year at Acadia National Park where you can be the first to see the sunrise in the U.S. and he ended his year at the last place in the U.S. to see the sunset. In the book, he managed to group the 59 national parks together into chapters that made sense as well as including some of his own reflections on what he learned or discovered along the way.

There are photos (in two sections) though unlike the "coffee table books" of old, the photos are not sprinkled throughout the descriptions of the parks but rather contained within two glossy photo sections within the book.… (meer)