The Hidden Canyon: A River JourneyThe Grand Canyon continues to be the most popular of our national parks. While millions gaze at its cliffs each year, only 15,000 float through the canyon on the Colorado River. A landmark portrait of the Grand Canyon, this is the only photography book to document this amazing journey from river level. Now this classic is back in print, with an updated preface and introduction and a dozen new photographs. A journal in photos and words, The Hidden Canyon captures the desert landscape and the thrill of the rapids. Edward Abbey's journalfilled with wry humor and respect for the canyondescribes the journey as the dories (small wooden boats) alternately float and charge through the breathtaking landscapes and some of the roughest white water in North America. |
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... stream finished cutting back through the plateau , the combined flows then ran southwest through the plateau , deepening the main canyon so that the lake drained back into it , reversing the gradient of the upper river's former channel ...
... stream finished cutting back through the plateau , the combined flows then ran southwest through the plateau , deepening the main canyon so that the lake drained back into it , reversing the gradient of the upper river's former channel ...
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... stream . Bad dreams . We push onto a river the color of bronze , shim- mering like hammered metal under the desert ... streams upon us from many angles , all radiant . However , unlike Powell and his men , we are fresh , well fed , well ...
... stream . Bad dreams . We push onto a river the color of bronze , shim- mering like hammered metal under the desert ... streams upon us from many angles , all radiant . However , unlike Powell and his men , we are fresh , well fed , well ...
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... stream flows over the high wall and into the amphitheater below . Columbine and maidenhair fern grow in the most shady areas of Elves Chasm . The stream works its way toward the river over falls formed by huge boulders filling the ...
... stream flows over the high wall and into the amphitheater below . Columbine and maidenhair fern grow in the most shady areas of Elves Chasm . The stream works its way toward the river over falls formed by huge boulders filling the ...
Contents
Preface JOHN BLAUSTEIN | 8 |
Introduction MARTIN LITTON | 9 |
A Journal EDWARD ABBEY | 25 |
Copyright | |
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