The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (National Geographic Adventure Classics) - Softcover

Powell, John

 
9780792266365: The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (National Geographic Adventure Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0792266366 ISBN 13: 9780792266365
Verlag: National Geographic, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

The legendary one-armed pioneer John Wesley Powell was a born explorer. But when he led the first expedition down the Colorado River and into the Grand Canyon, he and his men had no maps, no modern equipment . . . and no idea what awaited them.   This is Powell’s account of what they found: fierce rapids and hostile natives, scarce food, and sheer, unclimbable cliffs that left them no choice but to persevere or perish. What began as a scientific survey soon became a harrowing quest for sustenance and survival. Shaped from Powell’s original field notes and journals and featuring a new introduction by Anthony Brandt that puts the expedition in proper context as one of the great sagas of American exploration, this book is an adventure classic for the ages.   National Geographic Adventure Classics is a series that celebrates the “100 greatest adventure books of all time,” as compiled by a panel of experts for National Geographic Adventure. These titles have been carefully selected for their adrenaline quotient and their status as classics of the adventure genre.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John Wesley Powell completed his famous expedition down the Green and Colorado Rivers in 1869. But his life as one of America's great men of science was only just beginning. As an Indian commissioner, he became a student of the Paiute and Ute tribes, an interest that led in 1879 to the birth of the Smithsonian's Bureau of Ethnology, where he was director for 23 years. That same year he would be instrumental in the founding of the US Geological Survey, an agency which he would head just two years later. At 47 he was perhaps the most powerful and influential scientist in America. His ideas for harnessing water in the West inspired the birth of the Bureau of Reclamation and, in 1888, he joined 32 scientists and prominent Washingtonians to establish the National Geographic Society. After his death in 1902 at the age of 68, he continued to influence government science: He donated his brain to research. It's preserved today at the Smithsonian Institution.

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
National Geographic
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0792266366
ISBN 13 
9780792266365
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
BANDAI NAMCO ENTERTAINEMENT EUROPE
https://en.bandainamcoent.eu/about-us?_gl=1*t4w0oc*_gcl_au*MjAzOTA3ODUyNS4xNzEyOTE3Mjky

49-51 RUE DES DOCKS
LYON CEDEX 09
Frankreich

Weitere beliebte Ausgaben desselben Titels

9780142437520: The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (Penguin Classics)

Vorgestellte Ausgabe

ISBN 10:  0142437522 ISBN 13:  9780142437520
Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 2003
Softcover