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Language: en
Pages: 443
Pages: 443
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-27 - Publisher: Courier Corporation
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
Language: en
Pages: 432
Pages: 432
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-05 - Publisher: Penguin Classics
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
Language: en
Pages: 386
Pages: 386
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-03-17 - Publisher: Harper Collins
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,
Language: en
Pages: 692
Pages: 692
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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
Language: en
Pages: 12
Pages: 12
Type: BOOK - Published: 1969 - Publisher:
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