The Colorado River Through Glen Canyon Before Lake Powell
Title | The Colorado River Through Glen Canyon Before Lake Powell PDF eBook |
Author | Eleanor Inskip |
Publisher | |
Pages | 108 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN |
River trips through Glen Canyon from 1872-1964 were combined beginning at North Wash & ending at Lees Ferry, to present Glen Canyon before the lake. Landscape photographs & quotations from the explorers complete the journal. Fifty photographers & authors are represented. Photographs are identified by photographer, photo date & location. Quotations are identified by author & source. A map of Lake Powell is provided as a guide for today's visitor. The reader can take this book on the lake & go to the buoy indicated to compare Lake Powell today with the Glen Canyon of yesterday. Glen Canyon Natural History Association is co-publishing this book in support of the educational objectives of the National Park Service at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. A Special Limited (1,500 copies) First Edition is available. Silk-bound Limited Edition, $150, Paper-bound Edition, $25. Trade discounts available. Order from Inskip Ink, 366 East 100 North, Moab, UT 84532. Tel. & FAX 801-259-8452 or your local distributor.
Glen Canyon Dammed
Title | Glen Canyon Dammed PDF eBook |
Author | Jared Farmer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
"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.
The Colorado River Through Glen Canyon Before Lake Powell
Title | The Colorado River Through Glen Canyon Before Lake Powell PDF eBook |
Author | Eleanor Inskip |
Publisher | Treasure Chest Books |
Pages | 95 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 9780964807808 |
River trips through Glen Canyon from 1872-1964 were combined beginning at North Wash & ending at Lees Ferry, to present Glen Canyon before the lake. Landscape photographs & quotations from the explorers complete the journal. Fifty photographers & authors are represented. Photographs are identified by photographer, photo date & location. Quotations are identified by author & source. A map of Lake Powell is provided as a guide for today's visitor. The reader can take this book on the lake & go to the buoy indicated to compare Lake Powell today with the Glen Canyon of yesterday. Glen Canyon Natural History Association is co-publishing this book in support of the educational objectives of the National Park Service at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. A Special Limited (1,500 copies) First Edition is available. Silk-bound Limited Edition, $150, Paper-bound Edition, $25. Trade discounts available. Order from Inskip Ink, 366 East 100 North, Moab, UT 84532. Tel. & FAX 801-259-8452 or your local distributor.
The Emerald Mile
Title | The Emerald Mile PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Fedarko |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2014-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1439159866 |
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.
Drowned River
Title | Drowned River PDF eBook |
Author | Rebecca Solnit |
Publisher | |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2018-04-24 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9781942185253 |
Photographs by Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe; text by Rebecca Solnit.
The Place No One Knew
Title | The Place No One Knew PDF eBook |
Author | Eliot Porter |
Publisher | Gibbs Smith Publishers |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Glen Canyon (Utah and Ariz.) |
ISBN | 9780879059712 |
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.
All My Rivers are Gone
Title | All My Rivers are Gone PDF eBook |
Author | Katie Lee |
Publisher | Big Earth Publishing |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781555662295 |
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.