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Zusatztext "I recommend The Grand Canyon Reader quite enthusiastically." Informationen zum Autor Lance Newman! Professor of English at Westminster College! has worked as a Grand Canyon river guide for twenty years. He is the author of Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau! Transcendentalism! and the Class Politics of Nature as well as two chapbooks of poems! 3by3by3 and Come Kanab: A Little Red Songbook . Klappentext "I've been on his raft in the Grand Canyon! so I can attest to the fact that Lance Newman can row through both the currents of the Colorado River and the many literary tributaries that have given us great literature on this most unique of American places. The canyon is so many things to so many people: a holy land! an incision into the deep time of geology; a place of great and dangerous adventure; an imperiled landscape and a site in which to think about what our relationship to the natural world could and should be. Newman's superb anthology gives us splendid selections that carry the reader along on the current of the best and most varied nature writing." -Rebecca Solnit! author Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas "To really understand the wonders of the Grand Canyon! we need to see it through the eyes of others. In this reader! Lance Newman opens that world to us. The Grand Canyon of Craig Childs is a long way from that of Colin Fletcher! not to mention John Muir or Joseph Ives! but Newman guides us confidently through all these perspectives and many more. He has selected well! and we are the richer for it. Read this book." -William C. Tweed! author of Uncertain Path: A Search for the Future of National Parks "These are the Canyon's literary 'greatest hits' alongside lesser known but extremely interesting accounts. Demonstrating an impressively refreshing range of perspectives and experiences! this is a remarkable anthology of 500 years of human interaction with the Canyon." -Michael Branch! co-author of The Height of Our Mountains: Nature Writing from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mounts and Shenandoah Valley Zusammenfassung An anthology that brings together writing about the Grand Canyon - stories, essays, and poems written across five centuries by people inhabiting, surviving, and attempting to understand what one explorer called the 'Great Unknown'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Stories of the Great Unknown The Rim Amil Quayle! Grand Canyon Craig Childs! Fear of God Ann Zwinger! Bright Angel Trail Edward Abbey! Havasu Colin Fletcher! The Man Who Walked through Time Joseph Wood Krutch! Where Solitude Is Easy to Find Theodore Roosevelt! A Cougar Hunt on the Rim of the Grand Canyon John Muir! The Grand Cañon of the Colorado Harriet Monroe! The Grand Cañon of the Colorado The River Sharlot Hall! The Song of the Colorado Patricia McCairen! Canyon Solitude Terry Tempest Williams! Stone Creek Woman Barry Lopez! Gone Back into the Earth John McPhee! A River Bill Beer! Lava Falls Bert Loper! Three Boys and an Old Man George Flavell! The Log of the Panthon John Wesley Powell! The Grand Cañon of the Colorado The People Michael Kabotie! Grand Canyon National Park Linda Hogan! Plant Journey Wallace Stegner! Packhorse Paradise Joseph C. Ives! Mojave Valley to Big Canyon Francisco Garcés! Mojave Crossing to Oraibe Pueblo Pedro de Castañeda! The Hopi Mesas and the Colorado River G.{ths}M. Mullett! The Story of Tiyo Hualapai! Tudjupa Creates the People Ramson Lomatewama! They Told Stories Further Reading Credits ...
