The Glen Canyon Reader
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The Glen Canyon Reader
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Author : Mathew Barrett Gross
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2003
The Glen Canyon Reader written by Mathew Barrett Gross and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Travel categories.
Stretching for 170 miles across northern Arizona and southern Utah, Lake Powell is both a vacationer's paradise and the second-largest reservoir in the Western Hemisphere. Yet few visitors to the lake today are aware of the lost world that lies beneath its crystal waters. Once an enchanted landscape of sandstone cliffs and secret crevices, Glen Canyon has been but a memory since the damming of the Colorado River near Page, Arizona, in 1963. Often called "the place no one knew," Glen Canyon was in fact explored by thousands of visitors—including dozens of writers—before the dam's completion. River runner Mathew Gross has combed the literature of Glen Canyon to assemble this wide-ranging look at the history of this now-submerged natural treasure, the first book to bring together these voices of remembrance. Beginning with the first known written report of Glen Canyon in an eighteenth-century missionary journal, Gross has selected accounts of the canyon from both before and after the dam. Included are some of the West's best-known writers—Zane Grey and Katie Lee, Edward Abbey and Ellen Meloy—as well as Pulitzer Prize winners John McPhee and Wallace Stegner. Other authors range from David Brower, director of the Sierra Club when the dam was built, to Floyd Dominy, the federal bureaucrat responsible for the dam. The Glen Canyon Reader is a book that may be read straight through as entertaining and informative history. But as Gross suggests, "Perhaps more pleasurable is to flip through these pages, to poke around and explore, as one would have done in Glen Canyon . . . to visit and revisit the places contained in this book, these cool glens and embracing alcoves and hidden grottos, these canyons and dreams and ghosts that will always, always be with us."
The Place No One Knew
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Author : Eliot Porter
language : en
Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers
Release Date : 2000
The Place No One Knew written by Eliot Porter and has been published by Gibbs Smith Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Glen Canyon (Utah and Ariz.) categories.
Glen Canyon was a place of extraordinary beauty before it disappeared, flooded when a new dam ("a major mistake of our time," says environmentalist David Brower) was completed in 1963. This book is a commemorative edition of Eliot Porter's exquisite photographs of the canyon.
Glen Canyon Before Lake Powell
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Author : R. K. Alleman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-12-12
Glen Canyon Before Lake Powell written by R. K. Alleman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-12 with categories.
GLEN CANYON BEFORE LAKE POWELL: Beauty Lost in the Southwest is a consummate view of the old and new Glen Canyon environs. The old refers to the canyon's halcyon days and habitat, and the new is the inclusion of the dam and lake that covered most of the canyon's facade. Consequently, hundreds of peerless backcountry haunts were lost forever. The most celebrated of these idyllic alcoves was Cathedral in the Desert. The narrative of the book features a film-documentary of a 1959 rafting trip through Glen Canyon's interior before these consequential changes came about. The rustic 8mm movie was filmed by the acclaimed Grand Canyon author and hiker, George Steck. After meeting George and becoming friends with him, I later inherited the movie, then reformatted the fragile film into a VHS format. In time, that copy was formatted into a DVD. He called the movie "Beauty Lost" and my text is based on that historic movie. I felt the epithet was an apt title for my composition. Composed of three parts, notably, the before, during, and after phases, this informative narrative reveals what happened to Glen Canyon starting in the late 1950s. This epic transformation from a canyon to basin storage is known only by a relative few people today. It follows how most people are more familiar with the sprawling lake covering the canyon's interior. The descriptive account throughout Beauty Lost relates a thorough and objective background of both Glen Canyon realms (i.e., the chaste habit he experienced and the aftermath that became a mega-basin storage project an aquatic playground for tourists). The literal cover-up of Glen Canyon has always remained a topical environmental subject, whose diatribes and polemics fought by both sides of the Glen Canyon-Lake Powell issue continues to fuel the controversy, especially in view of Lake Powell's ongoing environmental problems, including the abrupt changes to the Grand Canyon's interior due to extremely low water temperatures caused by the dam. As a title, GLEN CANYON BEFORE LAKE POWELL states the theme of this work and comes down to the salient point this huge basin storage project was the wrong damn place to build a dam. The environmental impact over the last few decades proves this point, and not only is Lake Powell likened to an inland Dead Sea given its alarming silt accumulation, but also the ruinous changes wrought by Grand Canon's riverine corridor due to the dam cold water released from the dam. Thus, Glen Canyon's habit was sacrificed and has become a heated and topical issue over the years, where people on both sides of the issue constantly argue to either preserve the status quo of a dam and basin storage or dismantle the dam and return Glen Canyon to its original appearance, and the way Nature intended. Total page count: 285
The Place No One Knew
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Author : Eliot Porter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
The Place No One Knew written by Eliot Porter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Glen Canyon (Utah and Ariz.) categories.
One of the important historic and aesthetic records of Glen Canyon. The sheer exquisite beauty of Eliot Porter's photographs of this wilderness gorge makes this one of the loveliest books ever published. Contains the best photographs from the 1963 edition and previously unpublished photographs from Porter's archives. 80 color plates.
Glen Canyon Dammed
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Author : Jared Farmer
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 1999
Glen Canyon Dammed written by Jared Farmer and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
"Focusing on the saddening, maddening example of Glen Canyon, Jared Farmer traces the history of exploration and development in the Four Corners region, discusses the role of tourism in changing the face of the West, and shows how the "invention" of Lake Powell has served multiple needs. He also seeks to identify the point at which change becomes loss: How do people deal with losing places they love? How are we to remember or restore lost places?"--BOOK JACKET.
A New Form Of Beauty
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Author : Peter Friederici
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2016-10-31
A New Form Of Beauty written by Peter Friederici and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-31 with Nature categories.
Contemplating humanity's role in the world it is creating, Peter Goin and Peter Friederici ask if the uncertainties inherent in Glen Canyon herald an unpredictable new future. They challenge us to question how we look at the world, how we live in it, and what the future will be.
The Glen Canyon Country
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Author : Don D. Fowler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
The Glen Canyon Country written by Don D. Fowler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
In his new book, The Glen Canyon Country, archaeologist Don D. Fowler shares the history of a place and the peoples who sojourned there over the course of several thousand years. To tell this story, he weaves his personal experience as a student working on the Glen Canyon Salvage Project with accounts of early explorers, geologists, miners, railroad developers, settlers, river runners, and others who entered this magical place. The book details the canyon's story via historical and scientific summaries, biographical sketches, personal memoir, and previously unpublished photos of the land and its explorers. Readers will experience the intrigue and beauty of the Canyon while following not only the story of an individual but also of Glen Canyon itself. Infused with the breadth and depth of a lifetime of archaeological experience, The Glen Canyon Country is the definitive account of the prehistory and history of a significant river corridor and the surrounding land.
Glen Canyon Lake Powell
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Author : Ronald E. Everhart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Glen Canyon Lake Powell written by Ronald E. Everhart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with categories.
Glen Canyon Before Lake Powell
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Author : Richard Holtzin
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-04-10
Glen Canyon Before Lake Powell written by Richard Holtzin and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-10 with categories.
Abstract: This publication of Glen Canyon features the original environs before its interior was swamped by the deep, cold water of Lake Powell. The designation "Beauty Lost" is what the late Grand Canyon author and hiker, George Steck, said about the Glen after his last rafting excursion through the interior, in 1959. By the early 1980s, the sprawling Lake Powell had formed behind the towering wall of the Glen Canyon Dam. Consequently, some people think this blue oasis in a sandstone desert terrain, accented by the upper walls of the canyon jutting from the lake equates to an aquatic paradise. Thanks to George's 8mm film he took on that final rafting excursion, my book presents the TWO Glen Canyon environs and provides readers with another perspective. After seeing the movie in his home in the early 1990s, George let me make a VHS recording of the rustic film, which I later reformatted into a DVD. The inspiration for my publication, GLEN CANYON BEFORE LAKE POWELL is based on that rafting excursion when the canyon's pristine habitat was inundated (read, "drowned"). Specifically, the text is in three segments: Part I (Before) of my book describes Glen Canyon's environment before the dam was constructed, Part 2 (During) is George's descriptive account of the rafting excursion, and Part 3 (After) is the environmental legacy and controversy the dam and the lake has wrought over the decades. This segment of the text also focuses on the problems caused by the lake, including what persistent drought and silt aggradation have caused over the past forty or so years. Readers will weigh in on the matter and consider whether Glen Canyon's setting in its present state is a masterpiece created by the Bureau of Reclamation or ultimately doomed to failure. Although there are many books about Glen Canyon, that is the before and after renovation, Beauty Lost (Glen Canyon Before Lake Powell) offers a personal narrative. It's also George Steck's evocative film that provides the rare and personalized touch and impetus, making this text unique as it is comprehensive. As a retired educator and instructor for the likes of the Grand Canyon Field Institute, most of what I did for a living for some forty years entailed teaching various geosciences, natural and human history, environmental sciences, zoology, mathematics, and assorted published writings. (246 pages, 8.5 x 11 format) For more information, go the Amazon site and click on the synopsis; or visit the author's website: www.richholtzin.com
All My Rivers Are Gone
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Author : Katie Lee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
All My Rivers Are Gone written by Katie Lee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
David Brower, who has always regretted the Sierra Club's failure to save the Glen Canyon, called it The Place No One Knew. But Katie Lee was among a handful of men and women who knew the 170 miles of Glen Canyon very well. She'd made sixteen trips down the river, even named some of the side canyons. Glen Canyon and the river that ran through it had changed her life. Her descriptions of a magnificent desert oasis and its rich archaeological ruins are a paean to paradise lost.In 1963, the U.S. Government's Bureau of Reclamation (the Wreck-the-nation bureau, Katie calls it) shut off the flow of the Colorado River at Glen Canyon Dam, beginning the process of flooding this natural treasure. Two generations have been born since the dam was built, and in a few more decades there may be no one alive who will have known the place. Katie Lee won't forget Glen Canyon, and she doesn't want anyone else to forget it either. She tells us what there was to love about Glen Canyon and why we should miss it. The canyon had great personal significance for her: She had gone to Hollywood to make her career as an actress and a singer, but the river kept calling her back, showing her a better way to live. She very eloquently weaves her personal story into her breathtaking descriptions of the trips she made down the canyon.In recent years, Katie has found allies in her struggle to restore the canyon. The Glen Canyon Institute has been joined by the Sierra Club in calling for the draining of Lake Powell (Rez Foul, in Katie's words), and the idea is being debated on editorial pages across the country and in congressional hearings. All My Rivers Are Gone celebrates a great American landscape, mournsits loss, and challenges us to undo the damage and forever prevent such mindless destruction in the future.
