Grand Canyon Country

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From near and far they come, four million each year, to see the Grand Canyon, long _L. cherished as one of the nation's — and the world's —treasures. Grand Canyon Country explores more than the spectacular 277-mile-long gash in Arizona's red-rock country. With author Seymour L. Fishbein you will-roam the remote forests of the Kaibab Plateau, the lonely reaches of the Arizona Strip, and the multihued landscapes of the Painted Desert.
On a hike from rim to river to opposite rim, you venture through nearly two billion years of the earth's story, as revealed in successive layers of timeless rocks and fossil creatures. Under a desert sky Sy beds down where "pliant cottonwood crowns brush the starlight. The air is wine, the creek and wind rush, a symphony." He rides boat-bashing waves of the Colorado on its madcap frolic through the canyon, climbs to prehistoric cliff niches to find traces of those who once dwelt there, and hikes into lush side canyons.
The author probes the... Tovább

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From near and far they come, four million each year, to see the Grand Canyon, long _L. cherished as one of the nation's — and the world's —treasures. Grand Canyon Country explores more than the spectacular 277-mile-long gash in Arizona's red-rock country. With author Seymour L. Fishbein you will-roam the remote forests of the Kaibab Plateau, the lonely reaches of the Arizona Strip, and the multihued landscapes of the Painted Desert.
On a hike from rim to river to opposite rim, you venture through nearly two billion years of the earth's story, as revealed in successive layers of timeless rocks and fossil creatures. Under a desert sky Sy beds down where "pliant cottonwood crowns brush the starlight. The air is wine, the creek and wind rush, a symphony." He rides boat-bashing waves of the Colorado on its madcap frolic through the canyon, climbs to prehistoric cliff niches to find traces of those who once dwelt there, and hikes into lush side canyons.
The author probes the intriguing history of canyon country and meets its people. He encounters those just passing through for a look and those who live here — the hardworking descendants of Mormon pioneers, and Paiute, Hualapai, Havasupai, and Navajo Indians who cherish their traditional lands. And Sy talks with those who ponder environmental issues and see threats to this magnificent region.
Grand Canyon country, "transformed in a moment's shifting play of sun and cloud upon the patina of rock," comes to life in more than a hundred stunning photographs. The book—like the canyon itself—is something to treasure. Vissza