The Grand Canyon Reader
offers stories, essays and poems centered around the rim, river and people of the Grand Canyon.
- Edited by: Lance Newman
- Softcover; 245 pages
- University of California Press; copyright 2011
- The Grand Canyon Reader
includes writings by Edward Abbey, John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, John Wesley Powell and Wallace Stegner among many others
This anthology brings together stories, essays and poems written across 5 centuries by people inhabiting, surviving and attempting to understand the Grand Canyon—or, as one explorer called it, the “Great Unknown.” Lively tales written by unschooled river runners, unabashedly popular fiction and memoirs stand alongside finely crafted literary works to represent the full range of human experience in this wild, daunting and inspiring landscape.
Made in USA.
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