The Colorado River Through Glen Canyon Before Lake Powell

The Colorado River Through Glen Canyon Before Lake Powell
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Total Pages : 108
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105111178856
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Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis The Colorado River Through Glen Canyon Before Lake Powell by : Eleanor Inskip

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

Glen Canyon Dammed
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Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : UVA:X004253360
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Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Glen Canyon Dammed by : Jared Farmer

"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.

Drowned River

Drowned River
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Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 1942185251
ISBN-13 : 9781942185253
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Drowned River by : Rebecca Solnit

Photographs by Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe; text by Rebecca Solnit.

Glen Canyon

Glen Canyon
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Total Pages : 174
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ISBN-10 : UCSD:31822028132777
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Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Glen Canyon by : Tad Nichols

A collection of photographs and text describes the Glen Canyon region, which was later flooded to create Lake Powell.

All My Rivers are Gone

All My Rivers are Gone
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Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 1555662293
ISBN-13 : 9781555662295
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis All My Rivers are Gone by : Katie Lee

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.

Glen Canyon Betrayed

Glen Canyon Betrayed
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Total Pages : 276
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ISBN-10 : 1892327066
ISBN-13 : 9781892327062
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Glen Canyon Betrayed by : Katie Lee

Katie Lee's book, Glen Canyon Betrayed, should be read by all wilderness lovers. It beautifully invokes what it is like to have the freedom to explore one's deepest values within the intimacy of nature's rapture. Sadly, this freedom is increasingly diminished by the commercial clutter of a river that is increasingly being managed as a theme park for the wealthy. Katie's works are paeans to the wild, sacred heart of a paradise lost. For more than a decade, she regularly ran Glen Canyon before it was buried under trillions of tons of water in 1962. Her book recreates the beauty of the Glen, describes the characters that lived there, and tells how it changed her life.

The Emerald Mile

The Emerald Mile
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 448
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ISBN-10 : 9781439159866
ISBN-13 : 1439159866
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis The Emerald Mile by : Kevin Fedarko

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.

Raging River, Lonely Trail

Raging River, Lonely Trail
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Total Pages : 160
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ISBN-10 : 0962223344
ISBN-13 : 9780962223341
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Raging River, Lonely Trail by : Vaughn Short

For half a century, beginning in the early 1960s, Vaughn Short walked, horse-packed, and floated the canyons and mesas of the Southwest. Along the way, stories and poems grew in his mind. Around evening campfires, he shared these pearls with those lucky enough to be in his company. Vaughn Short was our Robert Service, the Poet Lauriat of canyon country. Although Vaughn has moved on, his books of poetry connect us to an earlier time before passage through these areas became common.

The Place No One Knew

The Place No One Knew
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Publisher : Gibbs Smith Publishers
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0879059710
ISBN-13 : 9780879059712
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis The Place No One Knew by : Eliot Porter

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.

Glen Canyon Dam

Glen Canyon Dam
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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages : 134
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ISBN-10 : 0738528757
ISBN-13 : 9780738528755
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Glen Canyon Dam by : Timothy L. Parks

Constructed between 1956 and 1966 by the United States Bureau of Reclamation, Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River was a project of immense proportions. Even before the non-stop pouring of 5 million yards of concrete began, much work had to be accomplished. The town of Page, Arizona was established on a windswept mesa to house workers and their families, and the 1,028-foot Glen Canyon Bridge was built to carry men, materials, and equipment to the dam site. Though the dam has proven a controversial structure throughout its history, the massive undertaking of its construction was an undeniable triumph of ingenuity and determination.