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| Title | The Place No One Knew: Glen Canyon on the Colorado Volume 5 of Sierra Club exhibit format series |
| Author | Eliot Porter |
| Editor | David Ross Brower |
| Contributor | Sierra Club |
| Edition | abridged, revised |
| Publisher | Sierra Club, 1966 |
| Length | 186 pages |
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