Running Dry A Journey from Source to Sea down the Colorado River

Name: Running Dry A Journey from Source to Sea down the Colorado River
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ISBN: 9781426205057

ISBN-10: 1426205058

ISBN-13: 9781426205057

Edition: 2010

Authors: Jonathan Waterman

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In 1869, John Wesley Powell led a small party down the Green and Colorado Rivers in a bold attempt to explore the Grand Canyon for the first time. After their monumental expedition, they told of raging rapids, constant danger, and breathtaking natural beauty of the American landscape at its most pristine. Jon Waterman combines sheer adventure and environmental calamity in this trailblazing cautionary account of his 2008 trip down the overtaxed, drying Colorado. Dammed and tunneled, forced into countless canals, trapped in reservoirs and harnessed for electricity, what once was untamed and free is now humbled, parched, and so yoked to human purposes that in most years it trickles away 100…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Publication date: 5/18/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.13" tall
Weight: 0.990

Jonathan Waterman is an award-winning author, photographer, and filmmaker whose books include The Colorado River: Flowing Through Conflict and Running Dry: A Journey from Source to Sea Down the Colorado River and whose films include Surviving Denali and ANWR Trek.ï¿½



Introduction



The Grand Ditch



Moving Water Through Mountains



Onto a Nonnavigable River



Home Waters



Pandora's Box



Canyonlands



Lake Foul or Jewel of the Colorado?



Of Dads, Lawns, and Dams



The Grand Canyon Chub



The Lights of Las Vegas



Major Powell Versus Rampant Growth



Birds and Farms



The Mexican Delta


Acknowledgments


Glossary


Index