The Promise Of The Grand Canyon
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The Promise Of The Grand Canyon
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Author : John F. Ross
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2018-07-03
The Promise Of The Grand Canyon written by John F. Ross and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-03 with History categories.
“A convincing case for Powell’s legacy as a pioneering conservationist.”--The Wall Street Journal "A bold study of an eco-visionary at a watershed moment in US history."--Nature A timely, thrilling account of the explorer who dared to lead the first successful expedition down the Colorado through the Grand Canyon—and waged a bitterly-contested campaign for sustainability in the West. John Wesley Powell’s first descent of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in 1869 counts among the most dramatic chapters in American exploration history. When the Canyon spit out the surviving members of the expedition—starving, battered, and nearly naked—they had accomplished what others thought impossible and finished the exploration of continental America that Lewis and Clark had begun almost 70 years before. With The Promise of the Grand Canyon, John F. Ross tells how that perilous expedition launched the one-armed Civil War hero on the path to becoming the nation’s foremost proponent of environmental sustainability and a powerful, if controversial, visionary for the development of the American West. So much of what he preached—most broadly about land and water stewardship—remains prophetically to the point today.
The Promise Of The Grand Canyon
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Author : Perfection Learning Corporation
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback
Release Date : 2019
The Promise Of The Grand Canyon written by Perfection Learning Corporation and has been published by Turtleback this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
The Grand Canyon
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Author : Randy Moore
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2018-06-15
The Grand Canyon written by Randy Moore and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-15 with History categories.
This single-volume encyclopedia examines the Grand Canyon in depth, from the native peoples who have survived there for centuries to the explorers who charted its vast expanses and to the challenges that Grand Canyon National Park faces. The Grand Canyon is one of the most internationally recognized landscapes and symbols of nature in North America. In this one-volume encyclopedia, readers can dive into the many people, places, stories, and issues associated with the Grand Canyon as well as the scientific, religious, and social contexts of events that have made the Grand Canyon what it is. At the front of the encyclopedia are thematic essays that examine the Grand Canyon's history, geography, and culture. Essays cover topics including John Wesley Powell, to whom the Grand Canyon "belongs," the Native Americans who live at the Grand Canyon, and the future of the Grand Canyon. Following the thematic essays are approximately 150 topical entries focusing on more specific aspects of the Grand Canyon, such as trails and camps, natural formations, and courageous heroes as well as shameless profiteers who have influenced the Grand Canyon's history. The encyclopedia is rounded out by a chronology of human history at the Grand Canyon, a Grand Canyon "at a glance" section, and multiple fact-based sidebars. Through the people, places, and stories explored in this work, readers will gain a better understanding of how the history of the Grand Canyon is relevant to the world today.
Grand Canyon
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Author : Vita Sackville-West
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2018-03-08
Grand Canyon written by Vita Sackville-West and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-08 with Fiction categories.
The Second World War has been won - by the Germans. Only America still stands protected by a precarious promise of peace from the Reich. Lester and Helen, strangers staying at the Grand Canyon Hotel in Arizona are united by their memories of a lost England. When the fragile peace shatters, only Lester and Helen can take charge and lead their fellow guests into an uncertain future.
Oversight Of Grand Canyon Overflights
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Aviation
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Oversight Of Grand Canyon Overflights written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Aviation and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Law categories.
Grand Canyon
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Author : Robert H. Webb
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 1996-05
Grand Canyon written by Robert H. Webb 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 1996-05 with History categories.
Photographs made in Grand Canyon a century ago may provide us with a sense of history; photographs made today from the same vantage points give us a more precise picture of change in this seemingly timeless place. Between 1889 and 1890, Robert Brewster Stanton made photographs every one to two miles through the river corridor for the purpose of planning a water-level railroad route; he produced the largest collection of photographs of the Colorado River at one point in time. Robert Webb, a USGS hydrologist conducting research on debris flows in the Canyon, obtained the photographs, and from 1989 to 1995, he replicated all 445 of the views captured by Stanton, matching as closely as possible the original camera positions and lighting conditions. Grand Canyon, a Century of Change assembles the most dramatic of these paired photographs to demonstrate both the persistence of nature and the presence of humanity. The level of detail obtained from the photographs represent one of the most extensive long-term monitoring efforts ever conducted in a national park and the most detailed documentation effort ever performed using repeat photography. Much more than simply a picture book, Grand Canyon, a Century of Change is an environmental history of the river corridor, a fascinating book that clearly shows the impact of human influence on Grand Canyon and warns us that the Canyon's future is very much in our hands.
Saving Grand Canyon
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Author : Byron E Pearson
language : en
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Release Date : 2019-09-25
Saving Grand Canyon written by Byron E Pearson and has been published by University of Nevada Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-25 with Nature categories.
2020 Winner of the Southwest Book Awards 2020 Spur Awards Finalist Contemporary Nonfiction, Western Writers of America The Grand Canyon has been saved from dams three times in the last century. Unthinkable as it may seem today, many people promoted damming the Colorado River in the canyon during the early twentieth century as the most feasible solution to the water and power needs of the Pacific Southwest. These efforts reached their climax during the 1960s when the federal government tried to build two massive hydroelectric dams in the Grand Canyon. Although not located within the Grand Canyon National Park or Monument, they would have flooded lengthy, unprotected reaches of the canyon and along thirteen miles of the park boundary. Saving Grand Canyon tells the remarkable true story of the attempts to build dams in one of America’s most spectacular natural wonders. Based on twenty-five years of research, this fascinating ride through history chronicles a hundred years of Colorado River water development, demonstrates how the National Environmental Policy Act came to be, and challenges the myth that the Sierra Club saved the Grand Canyon. It also shows how the Sierra Club parlayed public perception as the canyon’s savior into the leadership of the modern environmental movement after the National Environmental Policy Act became law. The tale of the Sierra Club stopping the dams has become so entrenched—and so embellished—that many historians, popular writers, and filmmakers have ignored the documented historical record. This epic story puts the events from 1963–1968 into the broader context of Colorado River water development and debunks fifty years of Colorado River and Grand Canyon myths.
The Promises Of God
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Author : Clarence Warner
language : en
Publisher: Xulon Press
Release Date : 2005-06
The Promises Of God written by Clarence Warner and has been published by Xulon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06 with Religion categories.
Warner has written daily devotions based on promises from the Bible with illustrations from his varied life experiences. They give inspiration, pause for thought, peace, strength and a deeper relationship with God.
Grand Canyon Protection Act And Renaming The Salt Gila Aqueduct As The Fannin Mcfarland Aqueduct
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Water and Power
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Grand Canyon Protection Act And Renaming The Salt Gila Aqueduct As The Fannin Mcfarland Aqueduct written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Water and Power and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Aqueducts categories.
Brave The Wild River The Untold Story Of Two Women Who Mapped The Botany Of The Grand Canyon
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Author : Melissa L. Sevigny
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2023-05-23
Brave The Wild River The Untold Story Of Two Women Who Mapped The Botany Of The Grand Canyon written by Melissa L. Sevigny and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Winner of the 2023 National Outdoor Book Award for History/Biography Finalist for the Reading the West Book Award in Memoir/Biography A Booklist Top of the List Winner for Nonfiction in 2023 A New Yorker Best Book of 2023 "Thrilling, expertly paced, warmhearted." —Peter Fish, San Francisco Chronicle 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 and veteran river runners boldly proclaimed that the motley crew would never make it out alive. But for Clover and Jotter, the expedition held a tantalizing appeal: no one had yet surveyed the plant life of the Grand Canyon, and they were determined to be the first. Through the vibrant letters and diaries of the two women, science journalist Melissa L. Sevigny traces their daring forty-three-day journey down the river, during which they meticulously cataloged the thorny plants that thrived in the Grand Canyon’s secret nooks and crannies. Along the way, they chased a runaway boat, ran the river’s most fearsome rapids, and turned the harshest critic of female river runners into an ally. Clover and Jotter’s plant list, including four new cactus species, would one day become vital for efforts to protect and restore the river ecosystem. Brave the Wild River is a spellbinding adventure of two women who risked their lives to make an unprecedented botanical survey of a defining landscape in the American West, at a time when human influences had begun to change it forever.