Months of hiking, climbing, and camping in the Grand Canyon have produced a book that is both majestic in its photography and gripping in its storytelling. Among "Parade" magazine's top fifteen new millennium gift books, "Grand Canyon: Time Below the Rim" has also won the 2000 Benjamin Franklin Award for best nature book.

Unlike appreciating America's other natural wonders such as waterfalls, glaciers, mountains, or prairies, one must struggle to absorb, assimilate, and comprehend the Grand Canyon's tremendous scale. Captured here in over 250 vintage images is the human drama of survival and coexistence in the canyon, from the native tribes who struggled with life on the rim, to the pioneers who came to foster and manipulate the early tourist industry in America's...

Ellsworth and Emery Kolb, renowned photographers of the Colorado Plateau, voyaged down the Green, Yampa, and Colorado rivers for the first of many times in the fall and winter of 1911-12. This report of that journey paints a vivid picture of the natural history of the Colorado drainage system, along with an intriguing description of human life in that wild country in the days before paved roads and commercial river excursions. Long regarded as a classic...