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Author
Publisher
Argosy-Antiquarian
Pub. Date
1964
Language
English
Description
John Wesley Powell was a U.S. soldier, geologist, explorer of the American West, and director of major scientific and cultural institutions. He is famous for the 1869 Powell Geographic Expedition, a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers that included the first passage of European Americans through the Grand Canyon. Powell served as second director of the US Geological Survey (1881-1894), and was also the director of the Bureau...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
Famed adventure writer David Roberts retraces the route of the legendary Dominguez-Escalante expedition.
In July 1776 a pair of Franciscan friars, Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Silvestre Velez de Escalante, were charged by the governor of New Mexico with discovering a route across the unknown Southwest to the new Spanish colony in California. They had other goals as well, some of them secret: converting the indigenous natives along the way to...
Publisher
Distributed by Questar
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
[Widescreen].
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the land of red rock, big sky, and deep canyons! Here, you'll unravel the mysteries of a 1,000-foot maze, jet-ski in the middle of the desert, and travel barren badlands. This is the land made famous by artist Georgia O'Keefe, where classic westerns were filmed, but also where posh lodges, gourmet meals, and soothing mineral pools offer luxurious retreats.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants. In The Lost World of the Old Ones, David Roberts expands and updates the research from his 1996 classic, In Search of the Old Ones. As he elucidates startling archaeological breakthroughs, Roberts also recounts his past twenty years of far-flung exploits in search of spectacular prehistoric ruins and rock-art...
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