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Colorado River In The Marble Canyon For The Love Of Arizona
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Book Synopsis Colorado River in the Marble Canyon, for the Love of Arizona by : Unique Journal
Download or read book Colorado River in the Marble Canyon, for the Love of Arizona written by Unique Journal and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blank 150 page lined journal for your thoughts, ideas, and inspiration.
Download or read book The Emerald Mile written by Kevin Fedarko and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic story of the fastest boat ride in history, on a hand-built dory named the "Emerald Mile," through the heart of the Grand Canyon on the Colorado river.
Book Synopsis In & Around the Grand Canyon by : George Wharton James
Download or read book In & Around the Grand Canyon written by George Wharton James and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Grand Canyon of Arizona written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Grand Canyon of Arizona written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Woman of the River by : Richard Westwood
Download or read book Woman of the River written by Richard Westwood and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great adventurer who helped make whitewater rafting a beloved national pastime comes to vivid life in this rollicking biography. Georgie White Clark—adventurer, raconteur, eccentric—first came to know the canyons of the Colorado River by swimming portions of them with a single companion. She subsequently hiked and rafted portions of the canyons, increasingly sharing her love of the Colorado River with friends and acquaintances. At first establishing a part-time guide service as a way to support her own river trips, Clark went on to become perhaps the canyons’ best-known river guide, introducing their rapids to many others, both on the river, via her large-capacity rubber rafts, and across the nation, via magazine articles and movies. Georgie Clark saw the river and her sport change with the building of Glen Canyon Dam, enormous increases in the popularity of river running, and increased National Park Service regulation of rafting and river guides. Adjusting, though not always easily, to the changes, she helped transform an elite adventure sport into a major tourist activity.
Book Synopsis Delightful Journey, Down the Green & Colorado Rivers by : Barry Morris Goldwater
Download or read book Delightful Journey, Down the Green & Colorado Rivers written by Barry Morris Goldwater and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Breaking Into the Current by : Louise Teal
Download or read book Breaking Into the Current written by Louise Teal and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1973, Marilyn Sayre gave up her job as a computer programmer and became the first woman in twenty years to run a commercial boat through the Grand Canyon. Georgie White had been the first, back in the 1950s, but it took time before other women broke into guiding passengers down the Colorado River. This book profiles eleven of the first full-season Grand Canyon boatwomen, weaving together their various experiences in their own words. Breaking Into the Current is a story of romance between women and a place. Each woman tells a part of every Canyon boatwoman's story: when Marilyn Sayre talks about leaving the Canyon, when Ellen Tibbets speaks of crew camaraderie, or when Martha Clark recalls the thrill of white water, each tells how all were involved in the same romance. All the boatwomen have stories to tell of how they first came to the Canyon and why they stayed. Some speak of how they balanced their passion for being in the Canyon against the frustration of working in a traditionally male-oriented occupation, where today women account for about fifteen percent of the Canyon's commercial river guides. As river guides in love with the Canyon and their work, these women have followed their hearts. "I've done a lot," says Becca Lawton, "but there's been nothing like holding those oars in my hands and putting my boat exactly where I wanted it. Nothing."
Book Synopsis The Colorado River and Arizona's Interest in Its Development by : George Edson Philip Smith
Download or read book The Colorado River and Arizona's Interest in Its Development written by George Edson Philip Smith and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :744 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (18 download)
Book Synopsis Lower Colorado River Basin Project by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation
Download or read book Lower Colorado River Basin Project written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis In the Heart of the Canyon by : Elisabeth Hyde
Download or read book In the Heart of the Canyon written by Elisabeth Hyde and published by Pan. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The temperature is over 100. The rapids are some of the largest in North America. Water levels are rising. And JT Maroney, veteran river guide, is leading his 125th trip down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. For the next two weeks, his 13 passengers – strangers, mostly – will paddle, row, swim, ride the rapids, eat gourmet meals, sleep under the stars, and learn a lot about geology. They’ll learn a lot about each other, too – perhaps more than they want to know. Allegiances form, and likewise dissolve, in the course of an afternoon. JT’s decision on the first day to adopt a stray dog further complicates the group dynamics, leading to a series of fateful mishaps, one of which will alter the course of many lives.
Book Synopsis Saving Grand Canyon by : Byron E Pearson
Download or read book Saving Grand Canyon written by Byron E Pearson and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 Winner of the Southwest Book Awards 2020 Spur Awards Finalist Contemporary Nonfiction, Western Writers of America The Grand Canyon has been saved from dams three times in the last century. Unthinkable as it may seem today, many people promoted damming the Colorado River in the canyon during the early twentieth century as the most feasible solution to the water and power needs of the Pacific Southwest. These efforts reached their climax during the 1960s when the federal government tried to build two massive hydroelectric dams in the Grand Canyon. Although not located within the Grand Canyon National Park or Monument, they would have flooded lengthy, unprotected reaches of the canyon and along thirteen miles of the park boundary. Saving Grand Canyon tells the remarkable true story of the attempts to build dams in one of America’s most spectacular natural wonders. Based on twenty-five years of research, this fascinating ride through history chronicles a hundred years of Colorado River water development, demonstrates how the National Environmental Policy Act came to be, and challenges the myth that the Sierra Club saved the Grand Canyon. It also shows how the Sierra Club parlayed public perception as the canyon’s savior into the leadership of the modern environmental movement after the National Environmental Policy Act became law. The tale of the Sierra Club stopping the dams has become so entrenched—and so embellished—that many historians, popular writers, and filmmakers have ignored the documented historical record. This epic story puts the events from 1963–1968 into the broader context of Colorado River water development and debunks fifty years of Colorado River and Grand Canyon myths.
Book Synopsis Wrenched from the Land by : M. L. Lincoln
Download or read book Wrenched from the Land written by M. L. Lincoln and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The activists featured in this book are inspired by the late Edward Abbey, one of America's uncompromising and irascible defenders of wilderness.
Book Synopsis River Love by : Robert Valentine Knowlton
Download or read book River Love written by Robert Valentine Knowlton and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hayduke Lives! written by Edward Abbey and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2011-08-21 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Abbey’s latter-day Luddites, introduced in his novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, are back—and not a moment too soon” (The New York Times). George Washington Hayduke, ex-Green Beret, was last seen clinging to a rock face in the wilds of Utah as an armed posse hunted him down for his eco-radical crimes. Now he’s back, with a fiery need for vengeance . . . This sequel to Edward Abbey’s cult classic brings back the old gang of environmental warriors, as they battle a fundamentalist preacher intent on turning the Grand Canyon into a uranium mine—in “a fine novel, combative and comic, anarchistic and ultimately redemptive” (Albuquerque Journal). “I laughed out loud reading this book.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
Book Synopsis Grand Canyon of Arizona by : Higgins & others
Download or read book Grand Canyon of Arizona written by Higgins & others and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Downcanyon written by Ann Zwinger and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every writer comes to the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon with a unique point of view. Ann Zwinger's is that of a naturalist, an "observer at the river's brim." Teamed with scientists and other volunteer naturalists, Zwinger was part of an ongoing study of change along the Colorado. In all seasons and all weathers, in almost every kind of craft that goes down the waves, she returned to the Grand Canyon again and again to explore, look, and listen. From the thrill of running the rapids to the wonder in a grain of sand, her words take the reader down 280 miles of the "ever-flowing, energetic, whooping and hollering, galloping" river. Zwinger's book begins with a bald eagle count at Nankoweap Creek in January and ends with a subzero, snowy walk out of the canyon at winter solstice. Between are the delights of spring in side canyons, the benediction of rain on a summer beach, and the chill that comes off limestone walls in November. Her eye for detail catches the enchantment of small things played against the immensity of the river: the gatling-gun love song of tree frogs; the fragile beauty of an evening primrose; ravens "always in close attendance, like lugubrious, sharp-eyed, nineteenth-century undertakers"; and a golden eagle chasing a trout "with wings akimbo like a cleaning lady after a cockroach." As she travels downstream, Zwinger follows others in history who have risked—and occasionally lost—their lives on the Colorado. Hiking in narrow canyons, she finds cliff dwellings and broken pottery of prehistoric Indians. Rounding a bend or running a rapid, she remembers the triumphs and tragedies of early explorers and pioneers. She describes the changes that have come with putting a big dam on a big river and how the dam has affected the riverine flora and fauna as well as the rapids and their future. Science in the hands of a poet, this captivating book is for armchair travelers who may never see the grandiose Colorado and for those who have run it wisely and well. Like the author, readers will find themselves bewitched by the color and flow of the river, and enticed by what's around the next bend. With her, they will find its rhythms still in the mind, long after the splash and spray and pound are gone.
