[PDF.06xg] How the Canyon Became Grand: A Short History

How the Canyon Became Grand: A Short History

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 | #1131431 in Books |  1999-07-01 |  1999-07-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.80 x.70 x5.00l,.40 | File type: PDF | 199 pages

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||11 of 12 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting ideas and information, but socially very biased|By Atheen|This book like others on the Grand Canyon's history as national monument discusses various visits by European and US explorers. Dr. Pyne's book approaches the topic from a different slant. By focusing on the effect of cultural and psychological filters he explains why the geologic phenomenon has been valu|.com |Arizona-based environmental historian Stephen J. Pyne has fought fires on the Grand Canyon's north and south rims, traveled on foot and muleback into its depths, floated its length down the Colorado River, explored its hidden recesses--and spent years loo

Dismissed by the first Spanish explorers as a wasteland, the Grand Canyon lay virtually unnoticed for three centuries until nineteenth- century America rediscovered it and seized it as a national emblem. This extraordinary work of intellectual and environmental history tells two tales of the Canyon: the discovery and exploration of the physical Canyon and the invention and evolution of the cultural Canyon--how we learned to endow it with mythic significance.Acclaimed his...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.How the Canyon Became Grand: A Short History   |  Stephen J. Pyne.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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