The exploration of the Colorado River and its canyons /
The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons , recently ranked number four on Adventure magazine’s list of top 100 classics, is legendary pioneer John Wesley Powell’s first-person account of his crew’s unprecedented odyssey along the Green and Colorado Rivers and through the Grand Canyon. A...
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| Μορφή: | Βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
National Geographic,
c2002.
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| Περίληψη: | The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons , recently ranked number four on Adventure magazine’s list of top 100 classics, is legendary pioneer John Wesley Powell’s first-person account of his crew’s unprecedented odyssey along the Green and Colorado Rivers and through the Grand Canyon. A bold foray into the heart of the American West’s final frontier, the expedition was achieved without benefit of modern river-running equipment, supplies, or a firm sense of the region’s perilous topography and the attitudes of the native inhabitants towards whites.
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| Περιγραφή τεκμηρίου: | Previously published as: Caynons of the Colorado. Meadville, PA : Flood & Vincent, 1895. Contains chapters 1-9 of Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and its tributaries as well as 6 additional chapters.
"First published in 1875 John Wesley Powell.
Published in 2002 National Geographic,.Adventure classics. Publisher description : http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/simon032/2002025072.html |
| Φυσική περιγραφή: | xvii, 269 σ. : εικ. ; 23 εκ. |
| ISBN: | 0792266366 |
