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Author : Michael Elsohn Ross
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1575052547
A biography of the geologist who mapped the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon. Includes related activities.
Author : Don Lago
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874175998
"The Powell Expedition is a thought-provoking, nuanced work that reads at times like a detective story, and it should offer much fodder for historians." —The Wall Street Journal John Wesley Powell’s 1869 expedition down the Green and Colorado Rivers and through the Grand Canyon continues to be one of the most celebrated adventures in American history, ranking with the Lewis and Clark expedition and the Apollo landings on the moon. For nearly twenty years Lago has researched the Powell expedition from new angles, traveled to thirteen states, and looked into archives and other sources no one else has searched. He has come up with many important new documents that change and expand our basic understanding of the expedition by looking into Powell’s crewmembers, some of whom have been almost entirely ignored by Powell historians. Historians tended to assume that Powell was the whole story and that his crewmembers were irrelevant. More seriously, because several crew members made critical comments about Powell and his leadership, historians who admired Powell were eager to ignore and discredit them. Lago offers a feast of new and important material about the river trip, and it will significantly rewrite the story of Powell’s famous expedition. This book is not only a major work on the Powell expedition, but on the history of American exploration of the West.
Author : Eliot Porter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Explorers
ISBN : OCLC:671278177
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 : James Lawrence Powell
Publisher : Plume
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11
Category : Geologists
ISBN : 0452287871
A scientific detective tale packed with a rich cast of characters, Grand Canyon is the story of the quest to discover the canyon's origins.
Author : John Wesley Powell
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547718017
"Canyons of the Colorado" by John Wesley Powell. Published by DigiCat. DigiCat publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each DigiCat edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : John Wesley Powell
Publisher : Shearwater Books
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015050810293
Seeing Things Whole presents the essence of the extraordinary legacy that John Wesley Powell has left to the American people, and to people everywhere who strive to reconcile the demands of society with the imperatives of the land.
Author : John F. Ross
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780698409989
“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 : Mike Bezemek
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496236524
When people think about space travel, they usually look skyward. But much of spaceflight history happened down here on Earth. Space Age Adventures presents more than one hundred terrestrial sites across the United States related to space exploration, where enthusiasts can have their own space age adventures. Before astronauts walked on the Moon, they trained at locations you can visit today--from NASA space centers and telescope observatories to impact craters and atomic testing grounds. Inside vast museum hangars, a visitor can walk beneath towering Saturn V rockets left over from the Apollo program or peer inside American and Soviet capsules. Elsewhere visitors can visit historic rocket pads, retired space shuttles, landed SpaceX boosters, and even watch scheduled launches. Mike Bezemek brings the artifacts and spacecraft to life with interwoven true stories that collectively span the entire Space Age. These stories offer a deeper understanding of the adventures behind the famous images. The combination of terrestrial sites and true stories makes this book the perfect guide for having unique adventures and discovering one of the most dramatic eras in human exploration.
Author : Hal G. Stephens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
ISBN : UOM:39015019072811
Author : Maurice Isserman
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781438101842
This text covers; African Americans in the western fur trade; The artist as predator: John James Audubon; The discovery of South Pass; How Alexander Mackenzie inspired the Lewis and Clark Expedition; Jack London and the romance of Alaska; Thomas Jefferson's study of North American geography; The transcontinental railroad surveys of the 1850s.
Author : Raymond John Howgego
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN : UOM:39015077670803
Author : Edward Dolnick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
ISBN : 0006532233
This work charts the epic adventures of the first white men to explore the Grand Canyon, the last unmapped region of the United States. By 1869, the map of the United States had long since been filled in. Only one mystery remained - an immense area of the south-west, larger than any state in the union and any country in Europe, remained unexplored. On May 24th 1869, a one-armed Civil War veteran named John Wesley Powell and a ragtag band of nine men set out down the river to resolve the mystery. Three months later, defying premature reports of their deaths, six of the men emerged to tell the tale. Their expedition was the last epic adventure on the American continent. They were the first white men to explore the Grand Canyon, the first of any race to brave the Colorado's ferocious and deadly rapids, and the first to map and measure the area, the ultimate American landscape. Powell instantly became a national hero and a star of the lecture circuit, enthralling audiences with vividly painted stories of a hostile and alien environment.
Author : John Wesley Powell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Indians
ISBN : UCAL:C3429044
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Kendall Hunt
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Earth sciences
ISBN : 0787222852
Four modules explore topics in physical science, earth and space science, life science, and science and technology with hands-on activities designed to engage students in the processes of scientific inquiry and technological design. Modules within a developmental level may be taught in any sequence.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Geology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044250053