How the Canyon became Grand : a short history / Stephen J. Pyne.
How the Canyon became Grand : a short history / Stephen J. Pyne.
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Publisher
New York, N.Y. : Viking, 1998.
Date
1998.
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N979.132/1
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English
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Physical content
xviii, 199 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Contents
Overlook: The View from Dutton Point -- Two New Worlds. Canyon, Found and Lost. Second Age, Second Chance. Convergence -- Rim and River. Lonely and Majestic Way: Big Canon. Into the Great Unknown: Grand Canyon. Against the Currents: Return to Big Canon. A Great Innovation: Grand Ensemble. Leave It a...
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Publisher
New York, N.Y. : Viking, 1998.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
1998.
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Summary
"Dismissed by the first Spanish explorers as worthless, the Grand Canyon was nearly doomed to be forgotten, an incidental landform. Luckily, as Stephen Pyne explores in this book, in the next four hundred years we learned to see - and also to make maps, to understand geology and measure the earth's history, to embrace nature rather than shun it. A...
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How the Canyon became Grand : a short history / Stephen J. Pyne.
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Paperback ed. published : New York : Penguin, 1999.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-187) and index.
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N979.132/1
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74VM0m8xjvkA
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ISBN
0670881104
9780670881109 (alk. paper)
0670881104 (alk. paper)
9780140280562 (pbk.)
0140280561 (pbk.)
9780670881109
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979.132
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991001667729702626
