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Author : Kevin Fedarko
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439159866
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 : Pete McBride
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780847863044
This is a once-in-a-lifetime experience--an end-to-end, rim-to-river exploration of the Grand Canyon. The authors have debuted a film-Into the Canyon-in February of 2019 that explores their hike through the canyon Award-winning photographer Pete McBride, along with best-selling authors Kevin Fedarko and Hampton Sides, takes us on a gripping adventure story told through stunning, never-before-seen photography and powerful essays. By hiking the entire 750 miles of Grand Canyon National Park--from the Colorado River to the canyon rim--McBride captures the majesty of as well as calling us to protect America's open-aired cathedral. The 2019 Public Lands Alliance Partnership Book of the Year, this is the most spectacular collection of Grand Canyon imagery ever seen, showing beauty from vantages where no other photographers have ever stood. It will also highlight the conservation challenges this iconic national park faces as visitation numbers grow and development pressures surrounding it mount. This photography will inspire and remind us why we protect such a cherished public space. Proceeds benefit the Grand Canyon Conservancy, and the accompanying documentary Into the Canyon has been shown at the Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival and the Aspen Film Festival in February of 2019 as well as debuting on the National Geographic Channel--all in time for the national park's centennial.
Author : Michael Patrick Ghiglieri
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1992-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0816512868
The author, a professional river guide for seventeen years, describes a trip along the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, and shares his impressions of the natural history of the region
Author : Christa Sadler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Travel
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029152282
Author : Louise Teal
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1994-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0816514291
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 : Marc Reisner
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1993-06-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781440672828
“I’ve been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, despite the pouring heavens, seems likely to remain in the grip of a severe drought. Reisner anticipated this moment. He worried that the West’s success with irrigation could be a mirage — that it took water for granted and didn’t appreciate the precariousness of our capacity to control it.” – Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times, January 20,2023 "The definitive work on the West's water crisis." --Newsweek The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecological and economic disaster. In his landmark book, Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner writes of the earliest settlers, lured by the promise of paradise, and of the ruthless tactics employed by Los Angeles politicians and business interests to ensure the city's growth. He documents the bitter rivalry between two government giants, the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in the competition to transform the West. Based on more than a decade of research, Cadillac Desert is a stunning expose and a dramatic, intriguing history of the creation of an Eden--an Eden that may only be a mirage. This edition includes a new postscript by Lawrie Mott, a former staff scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, that updates Western water issues over the last two decades, including the long-term impact of climate change and how the region can prepare for the future.
Author : Brad Dimock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1892327988
In November 1928 an empty scow was found adrift and empty in the Colorado River. No bodies were found. But since 1971 several people have come forward claiming to be the occupants; one confesses to being a murderer.
Author : Edward Abbey
Publisher : Cameron
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1937359743
"First published in 1977 by Viking Penguin, Inc. Published in 1999 by Chronicle Books LLC."--Colophon.
Author : Edward Dolnick
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780061760341
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 : Scott Graham
Publisher : Torrey House Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781948814478
"A confluence of thrills, history, and mystery as twisty as the Colorado River." —MICKI BROWNING, author of Shadow Ridge When suspicious deaths befall a whitewater rafting expedition through Cataract Canyon in Canyonlands National Park, archaeologist Chuck Bender and his family recognize evil intent lies behind the tragedies. They must risk their lives and act before the murderer makes an already deadly journey on the Colorado River through Utah's red rock wilderness even deadlier—or turns on them instead.
Author : Wayne Ranney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015064881116
Carving Grand Canyon provides a synopsis of the intriguing ideas and innovative theories that geologists have developed over time. This story of a fascinating landscape is told in an engaging style that nonscientists will find inviting. The story's end, however, remains a mystery yet to be solved.
Author : Kim Crumbo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106006820689
Kim Crumbo, a river ranger at Grand Canyon National Park, has written a guide to the rich human history of the river and its canyon. Every rapid and other point of interest is discussed and clearly marked.
Author : Tom Martin,Duwain Whitis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0991389697
Guidebook for whitewater boating on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon
Author : Sarah Vowell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781594484001
In this New York Times bestseller, the author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States "brings the [Puritan] era wickedly to life" (Washington Post). To this day, America views itself as a Puritan nation, but Sarah Vowell investigates what that means-and what it should mean. What she discovers is something far different from what their uptight shoebuckles- and-corn reputation might suggest-a highly literate, deeply principled, and surprisingly feisty people, whose story is filled with pamphlet feuds, witty courtroom dramas, and bloody vengeance. Vowell takes us from the modern-day reenactment of an Indian massacre to the Mohegan Sun casino, from old-timey Puritan poetry, where "righteousness" is rhymed with "wilderness," to a Mayflower-themed waterslide. Throughout, The Wordy Shipmates is rich in historical fact, humorous insight, and social commentary by one of America's most celebrated voices.
Author : Larry Stevens
Publisher : Abbott Press (NJ)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1983-07
Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
ISBN : 0961167866
This is the guidebook to the Colorado River used by the characters in Will Hobbs's book "Downriver".