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Dismissed by the first Spanish explorers as worthless, the Grand Canyon was nearly doomed to be forgotten, an incidental landform. Luckily, as Stephen Pyne explores in this book, in the next four hundred years we learned to see - and also to make maps, to understand geology and measure the earth's history, to embrace nature rather than shun it. A complex coalescence of science, art, literature, nationalism, and personalities allowed us to create a...

Relates the adventures of a little burro who blazed trails through the Grand Canyon and met many famous people in the process.

"No matter who you are or where you are from, you cannot help but be impacted by Grand Canyon and have a story to tell as a result. This immense gorge is as intensely rooted in our culture as it is deeply carved into the history of the Earth. It has played a significant role in the lives of millions of people--whether they tried to profit from it, study it, live in it, protect it, been inspired to create art because of it, or made a life-changing...

An account of the dramatic quest to explore one of the most unforgiving, and breathtakingly beautiful, places on earth. Depicts John Wesley Powell's perilous thousand-mile expedition through the uncharted canyons of the Green and Colorado Rivers in the summer of 1869.

A river winds through the landscape, eroding the rock for millions of years, shaping a cavity in the ground 277 miles long, as much as 18 miles wide, and more than a mile deep known as ... Grand Canyon. Home to an astonishing variety of plants and animals that live within its walls, Grand Canyon is much more than just a hole in the ground. Follow a father and daughter as they make their way through this wondrous place, discovering life both present...

An abridgement of the author's journal originally published in pt. 1, "History of the exploration of the cnyons of the Colorado," of the report of the Smithsonian Institution: Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and its tributaries.

Introducing an extraordinary new character from #1 New York Times bestselling writer David Baldacci: Atlee Pine, an FBI agent with special skills assigned to the remote wilds of the southwestern United States who must confront a new threat...and an old nightmare. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Catch a tiger by its toe. It's seared into Atlee Pine's memory: the kidnapper's chilling rhyme as he chose between six-year-old Atlee and her twin sister, Mercy. Mercy...

"Fasten your life jackets for a ride you'll never forget. Now the excitement of a raft trip through the Grand Canyon has been re-created by a seasoned whitewater guide with a passion to share one of the world's most fantastic journeys. Michael Ghiglieri, a professional river guide for more than 17 years, has written the first book to describe that trip from the modern boatman's point of view. From Lee's Ferry to Diamond Creek, Ghiglieri leads you...