Author : Deborah Kogan Ray
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 40,54 MB
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780374318383
Chronicles the experiences of John Wesley Powell, who led the first scientific expedition down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon.
Author : Eliot Porter
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 21,69 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Explorers
ISBN :
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 : Jonathan Waterman
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 34,87 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 1426205058
An eye-witness account of the many demands on the Colorado, from irrigating 3.5 million acres of farmland to watering the lawns of Los Angeles.
Author : Colin Fletcher
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 22,71 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Nature
ISBN :
"From its Green River source in Wyoming to its black conclusion in Mexico's Gulf of California, the 1,700-mile Colorado is America's second-longest river and the one with the most beautiful vistas. For Fletcher this was an opportunity to perform aesthetic and emotional geology on the landscape (and on himself), and to treat the reader to a host of dramatic, moving and hilarious experiences. We see sandhill cranes and great blue herons; we experience many miles of whitewater challenges that stretch Fletcher's rafting capabilities to the limit; we float through stupendous canyons and open desert, pass mountains and abandoned villages; we flyfish for rainbow trout. We meet the people who live along the river, other adventurers, tourists. We wake up every morning to fresh views and the rewards of wilderness solitude. And finally we come to know this feisty curmudgeon who in his late sixties achieved the journey of a lifetime."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Ann Zwinger
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 28,6 MB
Release : 1995-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0816515565
Describes the river, including ruins, small wildlife, and the experiences of early travelers
Author : Kevin Fedarko
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 29,86 MB
Release : 2014-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439159866
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 : Edward Dolnick
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,87 MB
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 006176034X
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 : John Wesley Powell
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 34,78 MB
Release : 2023-11-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3387313845
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : Mary Ann Fraser
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 29,45 MB
Release : 1997-11-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780805055436
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.
Author : Gary Hansen
Publisher : WetDesert
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 24,38 MB
Release : 2007-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 097935210X
Grant Stevens, a mid-level manager for the Bureau of Reclamation, only wanted to build dams. He never imagined he would be swept into a desperate race against an environmental terrorist bent on restoring the Colorado River by blowing up the dams. Left temporarily in charge of the Bureau, Grant must react when the first dam is attacked. He faces the unthinkable task of mitigating the massive flood roaring down the Colorado. The flood will eventually threaten the mighty Hoover Dam, and if Hoover fails, the other dams downstream will fall like dominos. Working with the FBI, Grant uses his engineering skills, river knowledge, and plenty of gut instinct in an attempt to outmaneuver the terrorist. The chase will lead all the way downstream to the Gulf of California in a cat and mouse game where the stakes are high and the potential for destruction is enormous.
