Down the Colorado: Diary of the First Trip Through the Grand Canyon por John Wesley Powell; Eliot Porter [Photographer] - 1972-01-01

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Promontory Press, 1972. Hardcover. Good/Good. 15x12x0. Some light fraying to lower spine of book; the dustjacket has some chipping and edgewear at spine. 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 voyage remains one of the great adventure stories in all the literature of the American West. John Wesley Powell (March 24, 1834 September 23, 1902) was an American geologist, U.S. Army soldier, explorer of the American West, professor at Illinois Wesleyan University, and director of major scientific and cultural institutions. He is famous for his 1869 geographic expedition, a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers, including the first official U.S. government-sponsored passage through the Grand Canyon. Powell served as second director of the U.S. Geological Survey (1881 1894) and proposed, for development of the arid West, policies that were prescient for his accurate… Ler mais