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The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
Language: en
Pages: 443
Authors: J. W. Powell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-27 - Publisher: Courier Corporation

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Full text of Powell's 1,000-mile expedition down the fabled Colorado in 1869. Superb account of terrain, geology, vegetation, Indians, famine, mutiny, treachero
The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
Language: en
Pages: 432
Authors: John Wesley Powell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-05 - Publisher: Penguin Classics

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One of the great works of American exploration literature, this account of a scientific expedition forced to survive famine, attacks, mutiny, and some of the mo
Down the Great Unknown
Language: en
Pages: 386
Authors: Edward Dolnick
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-03-17 - Publisher: Harper Collins

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Drawing on rarely examined diaries and journals, Down the Great Unknown is the first book to tell the full, dramatic story of the Powell expedition. On May 24,
A River Running West
Language: en
Pages: 692
Authors: Donald Worster
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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This text is a magisterial account of John Wesley Powell, the great American explorer and environmental pioneer. It tells the true story of undaunted courage in
Down the Colorado
Language: en
Pages: 12
Authors: Eliot Porter
Categories: Explorers
Type: BOOK - Published: 1969 - Publisher:

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One hundred years ago John Wesley Powell set out to explore the Grand Canyon of the Colorado - something no man had attempted before. His official report of the