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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458500603321

Autore

Worster Donald <1941->

Titolo

A river running west [[electronic resource] ] : the life of John Wesley Powell / / Donald Worster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001

ISBN

1-280-45165-3

0-19-535664-0

1-4237-6074-3

1-60256-075-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (688 p.)

Disciplina

333.7/2/092

B

Soggetti

Explorers - United States

Conservationists - United States

Electronic books.

Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) Discovery and exploration

Grand Canyon (Ariz.) Discovery and exploration

West (U.S.) Discovery and exploration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [611]-644) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: Part One: Northern Days -- 1 A MISSION TO AMERICA -- 2 RISING ON THE PRAIRIE -- 3 THE HORNETS' NEST OF WAR -- Part Two: Canyons of the Colorado -- 4 WESTWARD THE NATURALIST -- 5 DOWN THE GREAT UNKNOWN -- 6 SURVEYING THE HIGH PLATEAUS -- 7 KAPURATS -- 8 THE SUBLIMEST THING ON EARTH -- 9 DEMOCRACY ENCOUNTERS THE DESERT -- 10 MYTHS AND MAPS -- 11 REDEEMING THE EARTH -- 12 THE PROBLEM OF THE WEST -- 13 JOURNEY'S END -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

If the word ""hero"" still belonged in the historian's lexicon, it would certainly be applied to John Wesley Powell. Intrepid explorer, careful scientist, talented writer, and dedicated conservationist, Powell led the expedition that put the Colorado River on American maps and revealed



the Grand Canyon to the world. Now comes the first biography of this towering figure in almost fifty years--a book that captures his life in all its heroism, idealism, and ambivalent, ambiguous humanity. In A River Running West, Donald Worster, one of our leading Western historians, tells the story of Powell's g