DOWN THE COLORADO - DIARY OF THE FIRST TRIP THROUGH THE GRAND CANYON: ELIOT PORTER - Photographs and Epilogue
by Powell, John Wesley
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NY: E. P. Dutton, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE/very good. Price unclipped dj $25.00 until 1/1/70, $30 thereafter. Foreword by Don D. Fowler, Director, Desert Research Institute. 168pp., drawings and photographs, the work of Powell's contemporaries, enhance the original text, index, printed on high quality enamel stock, folio white linen. No names no writing, corners sharp, dj with one chip at heel of spine in archival mylar cover. Not a remainder.
"100 years ago, ten men in four boats swept down th raging Colorado River on the first trip through the Grand Canyon. Major John Wesley Powell let the epic journey, to chart the unexplored river and its surrounding canyons.On August 30, 1869, thirteen weeks after the xpedition left Green River Station in Wyoming Territory, the one-armed Major, with only two boats an six survivors, emerged from the canyon." Eliot Porter has contributed a 48 page gallery of four-color photographs 10x14 in. made from several river trips to gather the breathtaking illustrantions for this book. A classic now over 50 years old.
"100 years ago, ten men in four boats swept down th raging Colorado River on the first trip through the Grand Canyon. Major John Wesley Powell let the epic journey, to chart the unexplored river and its surrounding canyons.On August 30, 1869, thirteen weeks after the xpedition left Green River Station in Wyoming Territory, the one-armed Major, with only two boats an six survivors, emerged from the canyon." Eliot Porter has contributed a 48 page gallery of four-color photographs 10x14 in. made from several river trips to gather the breathtaking illustrantions for this book. A classic now over 50 years old.
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- Bookseller
- Maggie Lambeth (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16227
- Title
- DOWN THE COLORADO - DIARY OF THE FIRST TRIP THROUGH THE GRAND CANYON
- Author
- Powell, John Wesley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- E. P. Dutton
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1969
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