Down the Colorado - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Down the Colorado write by Deborah Kogan Ray. This book was released on 2007-10-16. Down the Colorado available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chronicles the experiences of John Wesley Powell, who led the first scientific expedition down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon.
Down the Colorado
Down the Colorado - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Down the Colorado write by Eliot Porter. This book was released on 1969. Down the Colorado available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Emerald Mile
The Emerald Mile - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Emerald Mile write by Kevin Fedarko. This book was released on 2014-07. The Emerald Mile available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Down the Great Unknown
Down the Great Unknown - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Down the Great Unknown write by Edward Dolnick. This book was released on 2009-03-17. Down the Great Unknown available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
River
River - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook River write by Colin Fletcher. This book was released on 1997. River available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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
