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"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...
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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...
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In 1963 Colin Fletcher became the first man to walk the length of Grand canyon, below the Rim. It began with a dream, when he and a friend detoured from a cross-country trip to take a hurried look at the great natural wonder. Standing on the Rim, surrounded by the profound and almost mystical silence, Fletcher knew that something had happened to the way he looked at things. He also knew that the Canyon, with its depths and distances, cliffs, buttes,...
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Lonely Planet's Grand Canyon National Parks is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip. Hike the Hermit trail, swim in Oak Creek, and ride the Colorado river; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Grand Canyon National Parks and begin your journey now!
8) Grand Canyon
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"Stretching across a rocky plateau in America, carved deep into the rocks by the rushing Colorado River, lies the Grand Canyon. Its bands of rock tell us about millions of years of our planet's history and the indigenous Hopi, Havasupai, and Navajo tribes amongst others that have ties to the land. Today at least five million people visit Grand Canyon National Park every year. This stunning illustrated guide is packed with incredible facts about this...
12) Arizona
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"Arizona is a remarkable state, rich in natural beauty-- the Grand Canyon, one of the great natural wonders of the world, a few hundred miles to the east-- the Navajo Nation and Monument Valley Tribal Park with its sandstone spires and buttes, the Canyon de Chelly with ancient Anasazi ruins dating back almost a thousand years, the Saguaro National Monument, the Petrified Forest National Monument, the Colorado River and Lake Havasu. It's easy to see...
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"A meditation on the timeless beauty of one of America's most sacred spaces, and a story of physical hardship that stretches the bonds of friendship, this film follows writer Kevin Fedarko and National Geographic photographer Pete McBride as they set out to traverse the Grand Canyon by foot, hoping this 750-mile walk will help them better understand this revered landscape and the commercial developments poised to alter it forever"--Container.
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A rare scientific odyssey down the Grand Canyon through some of the most treacherous rapids on the planet. From the river cutting through two-billion-year-old stone to the creatures roaming its back-country, the Grand Canyon still has secrets to tell.
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"Experience the Grand Canyon in a quality never before seen on home video: experience spectacular Canyon moods, a breathtaking river raft trip, a mule ride down sheer rock walls, an exhilarating excursion in, over, and around a canyon so vast, so incredibly big, that words can't describe it!"--Container.
18) Grand Canyon
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Terra mystica volume 12
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The mystery and majesty of the Grand Canyon are revealed in this video of scenes from the Arizona landscape.
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