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Author
Publisher
Pruett Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
viii, 248 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Grand Canyon Women tells the humorous and heartbreaking stories of twenty-six remarkable women-Native Americans, river runners, scientists, wranglers, architects, rangers, hikers, and housewives-each of whom, in the midst of natures indiscriminate universe, discovers her identity.
Author
Publisher
Northland Publishing
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
xxiv, 133 p. : col. photos, maps ; 26 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of personal reflections as well as a tribute to the unifying power of landscapeby 15 of today's best women writers who descended into the heart of the Grand Canyon on the Colorado River.
Publisher
Vishnu Ttemple Press
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
xii, 243 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twenty-seven tales of adventure, discovery, danger, and deep solitude await readers of this first-ever anthology of essays devoted to the Grand Canyon backpacking experience. In it, novice canyon hikers express their wide-eyed wonder, while veteran canyoneers reflect on how their lifelong relationship with the place has shaped their character and outlook. Rangers, trail crew workers, scientists, and trail guides weigh in with their unique perspectives....
Author
Publisher
Vishnu Temple Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xv, 224 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The fourth edition of Martin's popular hiking guide for river runners has been updated with mile markers on the maps corresponding to those set by the GCMRC and which match the current edition of Martin and Whitis's Guide to the Colorado River through Grand Canyon.
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcadia
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Colorado River began carving a course to create the Grand Canyon some four to six million years ago, but organized tourism to the natural wonder is fairly young, geologically speaking. Getting to the view along and below the rim has not always been as convenient as packing up the family car and hitting the road. The El Tovar Hotel, celebrating its centennial in 2005, had just opened to lodgers when the Canyon was declared a National Monument in...
12) Grand: a memoir
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"When Sara Schaefer is in first grade, her father warns her to always tell the truth because one lie leads to another and soon you will find yourself in a hole you can't escape. A few years later, the Schaefer family is completely upended when it's revealed that their grand life is based on a lie. Her parents become pariahs in their upper middle class community and go from non-religious people to devout church members. The idea of good and evil as...
Author
Publisher
Who Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
159 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Below the Rim: Footsteps through the Grand Canyon is taken from a personal journal of the author's most memorable backpacking trips into the depths of the Grand Canyon in Arizona. The pages of the book vividly describe the Canyon and its animals and plants as only an artist could do. In addition, the daily routines and the author's adventures on the Canyon's many trails provide a good descriptive picture of life in the Canyon away from the civilization...
Author
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
c1989
Physical Desc
xx, 344 p., 30 leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Earth Aware Editions
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
167 pages : illustrations (chiefly color, some folded) ; 29 x 32 cm + 1 videodisc (sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
It’s an alarming if little-known fact: one of the world’s mightiest rivers, the Colorado, no longer reaches the sea. Every drop of its water is allocated to agriculture and communities along the way and none remains for the Colorado Delta at river’s end, a once-thriving estuary that supported North America’s most diverse biosphere. Grand Canyon: A River at Risk draws attention the river’s plight as well as to the larger issue of the looming...
Author
Publisher
Fretwater Press
Pub. Date
c2015
Physical Desc
viii, 333 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.
Language
English
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Description
It's one thing to read Colorado River history, but another thing entirely to read Colorado River history written by someone who was not only in the middle of it, but made a significant portion of that history himself. Gaylord Staveley recounts all of the significant early expeditions down the Colorado, then goes beyond that to describe, in captivating detail, his own experiences as a commercial outfitter in the Grand Canyon during the transitional...
Publisher
This Earth Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
xxii, 216 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Description
An anthology of stories and artwork produced entirely by the river guiding community of Grand Canyon. Often hilarious, sometimes bittersweet and always entertaining, these true tales tell the stories of a landscape, a lifestyle and a unique community.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists...
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