The Grand Canyon Reader

By: Lance Newman (Editor)

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Paperback | 24 October 2011 | Edition Number 1

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This superb anthology brings together some of the most powerful and compelling writing about the Grand Canyon-stories, essays, and poems written across five centuries by people inhabiting, surviving, and attempting to understand what one explorer called the "Great Unknown." The Grand Canyon Reader includes traditional stories from native tribes, reports by explorers, journals by early tourists, and contemporary essays and stories by such beloved writers as John McPhee, Ann Zwinger, Edward Abbey, Terry Tempest Williams, Barry Lopez, Linda Hogan, and Craig Childs. Lively tales written by unschooled river runners, unabashedly popular fiction, and memoirs stand alongside finely crafted literary works to represent full range of human experience in this wild, daunting, and inspiring landscape.

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"The stories tell of the delight and wonder that is the Grand Canyon... The timelessness of the canyon means that the excitement continues ... and 'The Grand Canyon Reader' takes us along for the ride." -- Julie Cart Los Angeles Times Book Review "Word of warning: Reading the essays in this book will make you want to drop everything and traverse the Grand Canyon, rim-to-rim, if only to avoid the tourists hovering. But, with offerings from the likes of John McPhee, Barry Lopez, Wallace Stegner and that curmudgeon Edward Abbey, it also makes you think." -- Sam McManis Sacramento Bee "A great new compilation of short stories, essays, and poetry regaling the Grand Canyon... Mr. Newman has pulled together in one book a rich collection of stories that bring to life the river and its surrounding canyon, and keeps it alive." -- Kurt Repanshek National Parks Traveler "I recommend The Grand Canyon Reader quite enthusiastically." -- Ann Ronald University of Nevada, Reno Interdisciplinary Studies In Literature And Environment

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Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Stories of the Great Unknown	p. 1
The Rim
Grand Canyon	p. 9
Fear Of God	p. 12
Bright Angel Trail	p. 22
Havasu	p. 31
The Man Who Walked Through Time	p. 39
Where Solitude Is Easy To Find	p. 57
A Cougar Hunt on The Rim of The Grand Canyon	p. 65
The Grand Cañon of the Colorado	p. 77
The Grand Cañon of the Colorado	p. 84
The River
The Song Of The Colorado	p. 93
Canyon Solitude	p. 95
Stone Creek Woman	p. 104
Gone Back Into The Earth	p. 108
A River	p. 115
Lava Falls	p. 129
Three Boys and an Old Man	p. 137
The log of the Panthon	p. 142
The Grand Canon of the Colorado	p. 153
The People
Grand Canyon National Park	p. 175
Plant Journey	p. 177
Packhorse Paradise	p. 180
Mojave Valley To Big Canyon	p. 190
Mojave Crossing To Oraibe Pueblo	p. 198
The Hopi Mesas And The Colorado River	p. 208
The Story Of Tiyo	p. 211
Tudjupa Creates The People	p. 227
They Told Stories	p. 237
Further Reading	p. 239
Credits	p. 243
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