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Author : Ellsworth Leonardson Kolb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico written by Ellsworth Leonardson Kolb and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Patrick Ghiglieri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780970097323
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (973 download)
Download or read book First Through Grand Canyon written by Michael Patrick Ghiglieri and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In these new and accurate transcriptions, long overdue, of the letters and diaries written during the expedition, the crew members emerge from the shadows to tell their stories, often differing from the account written by expedition leader John Wesley Powell"--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Peter Anderson
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780613187046
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (87 download)
Download or read book A Grand Canyon Journey written by Peter Anderson and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1997-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the geology, evolution, and beauty of the Grand Canyon by leading the reader down the Bright Angel Trail
Author : Kevin Fedarko
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439159866
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
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.
Author : Colin Fletcher
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804152446
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Man Who Walked Through Time written by Colin Fletcher and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable classic of nature writing by the first man ever to have walked the entire length of the Grand Canyon.
Author : John F. Ross
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143128957
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Promise of the Grand Canyon written by John F. Ross and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A convincing case for Powell’s legacy as a pioneering conservationist.”--The Wall Street Journal "A bold study of an eco-visionary at a watershed moment in US history."--Nature A timely, thrilling account of the explorer who dared to lead the first successful expedition down the Colorado through the Grand Canyon—and waged a bitterly-contested campaign for sustainability in the West. John Wesley Powell’s first descent of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in 1869 counts among the most dramatic chapters in American exploration history. When the Canyon spit out the surviving members of the expedition—starving, battered, and nearly naked—they had accomplished what others thought impossible and finished the exploration of continental America that Lewis and Clark had begun almost 70 years before. With The Promise of the Grand Canyon, John F. Ross tells how that perilous expedition launched the one-armed Civil War hero on the path to becoming the nation’s foremost proponent of environmental sustainability and a powerful, if controversial, visionary for the development of the American West. So much of what he preached—most broadly about land and water stewardship—remains prophetically to the point today.
Author : Edward Dolnick
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006176034X
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)
Download or read book Down the Great Unknown written by Edward Dolnick and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on rarely examined diaries and journals, Down the Great Unknown is the first book to tell the full, dramatic story of the Powell expedition. On May 24, 1869 a one-armed Civil War veteran, John Wesley Powell and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest in the American West. The Grand Canyon, not explored before, was as mysterious as Atlantis—and as perilous. The ten men set out from Green River Station, Wyoming Territory down the Colorado in four wooden rowboats. Ninety-nine days later, six half-starved wretches came ashore near Callville, Arizona. Lewis and Clark opened the West in 1803, six decades later Powell and his scruffy band aimed to resolve the West’s last mystery. A brilliant narrative, a thrilling journey, a cast of memorable heroes—all these mark Down the Great Unknown, the true story of the last epic adventure on American soil.
Author : Eliot Porter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Down the Colorado written by Eliot Porter and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred years ago John Wesley Powell set out to explore the Grand Canyon of the Colorado - something no man had attempted before. His official report of the voyage remains one of the great adventure stories in all the literature of the American West.
Author : Deborah Kogan Ray
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374318383
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Down the Colorado written by Deborah Kogan Ray and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the experiences of John Wesley Powell, who led the first scientific expedition down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon.
Author : Louise Teal
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816536937
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
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."
Author : John Wesley Powell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book First Through the Grand Canyon written by John Wesley Powell and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Patrick Ghiglieri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984785803
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (858 download)
Download or read book Over the Edge written by Michael Patrick Ghiglieri and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gripping accounts of all known fatal mishaps in the most famous of the World's Natural Wonders.
Author : Will Hobbs
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442445475
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)
Download or read book Downriver written by Will Hobbs and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen-year-old Jessie and the other rebellious teenage members of a wilderness survival school team abandon their adult leader, hijack his boats, and try to run the dangerous white water at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
Author : Jason Chin
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
ISBN 13 : 1250155436
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Grand Canyon written by Jason Chin and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rivers wind through earth, cutting down and eroding the soil for millions of years, creating a cavity in the ground 277 miles long, 18 miles wide, and more than a mile deep known as the Grand Canyon. Home to an astonishing variety of plants and animals that have lived and evolved within its walls for millennia, the Grand Canyon is much more than just a hole in the ground. Follow a father and daughter as they make their way through the cavernous wonder, discovering life both present and past. Weave in and out of time as perfectly placed die cuts show you that a fossil today was a creature much long ago, perhaps in a completely different environment. Complete with a spectacular double gatefold, an intricate map and extensive back matter.
Author : Christa Sadler
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book There's this River written by Christa Sadler and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Wesley Powell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781436969932
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (699 download)
Download or read book First Through the Grand Canyon: Being the Record of the Pioneer Exploration of the Colorado River in 1869-70 (1915) written by John Wesley Powell and published by . This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Diane E Boyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Damming Grand Canyon written by Diane E Boyer and published by . This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1923, America paid close attention, via special radio broadcasts, newspaper headlines, and cover stories in popular magazines, as a government party descended the Colorado to survey Grand Canyon. Fifty years after John Wesley Powell's journey, the canyon still had an aura of mystery and extreme danger. At one point, the party was thought lost in a flood. Something important besides adventure was going on. Led by Claude Birdseye and including colorful characters such as early river-runner Emery Kolb, popular writer Lewis Freeman, and hydraulic engineer Eugene La Rue, the expedition not only made the first accurate survey of the river gorge but sought to decide the canyon's fate. The primary goal was to determine the best places to dam the Grand. With Boulder Dam not yet built, the USGS, especially La Rue, contested with the Bureau of Reclamation over how best to develop the Colorado River. The survey party played a major role in what was known and thought about Grand Canyon. The authors weave a narrative from the party's firsthand accounts and frame it with a thorough history of water politics and development and the Colorado River. The recommended dams were not built, but the survey both provided base data that stood the test of time and helped define Grand Canyon in the popular imagination.
