Author: Joseph Wood KrutchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Grand Canyon
Author: Joseph Wood KrutchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Grand Canyon Today and all its Yesterdays
Author: Joseph Wood KrutchThe Grand Canyon
Author: J. W. KrutchThe Grand Canyon Reader
Author: Lance NewmanPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520949935
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
This superb anthology brings together some of the most powerful and compelling writing about the Grand Canyon—stories, essays, and poems written across five centuries by people inhabiting, surviving, and attempting to understand what one explorer called the "Great Unknown." The Grand Canyon Reader includes traditional stories from native tribes, reports by explorers, journals by early tourists, and contemporary essays and stories by such beloved writers as John McPhee, Ann Zwinger, Edward Abbey, Terry Tempest Williams, Barry Lopez, Linda Hogan, and Craig Childs. Lively tales written by unschooled river runners, unabashedly popular fiction, and memoirs stand alongside finely crafted literary works to represent full range of human experience in this wild, daunting, and inspiring landscape.
Grand Canyon
Author: Don LagoPublisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 0874179912
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The Grand Canyon has long inspired deep emotions and responses. For the Native Americans who lived there, the canyon was home, full of sacred meanings. For the first European settlers to see it, the canyon drove them to great exploration adventures and Wild West dreams of wealth. The canyon also held deep importance for America’s pioneer conservationists such as Teddy Roosevelt, John Muir, and Aldo Leopold, and it played a central role in the emerging environmental movement. The Grand Canyon became a microcosm of the history and evolving values of the National Park Service, long conflicted between encouraging tourism and protecting nature. Many vivid characters shaped the canyon’s past. Its largest story is one of cultural history and changing American visions of the land. Grand Canyon: A History of a Natural Wonder and National Park is a mixture of great storytelling, unlikely characters, and important ideas. The book will appeal to both general readers and scholars interested in seeking a broader understanding of the canyon.
The Books of the Grand Canyon, the Colorado River, the Green River & the Colorado Plateau
Author: Mike S. FordPublisher:
ISBN: 9781892327109
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A Bibliography covering one half century of Southwest literature; a sequel to Farquhar's "The Books of the Colorado River & the Grand Canyon."
How the Canyon Became Grand
Author: Stephen J. PynePublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101177586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Dismissed by the first Spanish explorers as a wasteland, the Grand Canyon lay virtually unnoticed for three centuries until nineteenth- century America rediscovered it and seized it as a national emblem. This extraordinary work of intellectual and environmental history tells two tales of the Canyon: the discovery and exploration of the physical Canyon and the invention and evolution of the cultural Canyon--how we learned to endow it with mythic significance.Acclaimed historian Stephen Pyne examines the major shifts in Western attitudes toward nature, and recounts the achievements of explorers, geologists, artists, and writers, from John Wesley Powell to Wallace Stegner, and how they transformed the Canyon into a fixture of national identity. This groundbreaking book takes us on a completely original journey through the Canyon toward a new understanding of its niche in the American psyche, a journey that mirrors the making of the nation itself.
In Search of the Grand Canyon
Author: Mary Ann FraserPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805055436
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Major John Wesley Powell and nine other men set out to explore the unmapped stretches of the Colorado River on May 24, 1869. The text is illustrated with period photographs and etchings, maps, and attractive contemporary pictures of the canyon in full color.
Grand Canyon
Author: Jeremy SchmidtPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395599327
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Perhaps our most spectacular park, the Grand Canyon draws over four million visitors a year. In the first series that focuses on the natural history of the individual parks, each volume describes and lists each park's characteristic animals, plants, ecosystems, and geological formations. 90 photos, 45 in color. 15 maps.
Arizona and the Grand Canyon
Author: John GattusoPublisher: Langenscheidt Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781585731695
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This book provides everything you'll ever need in a guide book. It is an inspiring background read, an invaluable on-the-spot companion and a superb souvenir of your visit. Evocative photography: Insight Guides are renowned for their great pictures, which vividly convey a sense of everyday life. Illuminating text: Expert writers bring to life Arizona's history, culture, parks, arts, food and, above all, its people. Incisive evaluations: From the overwhelming beauty of the Grand Canyon and Indian Country to the bustle of Phoenix and Tucson, it's all here. Detailed, cross-referenced maps: All sites are clearly highlighted and numbered in relation to the text. Full listings: All the travel details, hotels, restaurants and phone numbers you'll need.