This superb anthology brings together some of the most powerful & compelling writing about the Grand Canyon
- stories, essays, & poems written across five centuries by people inhabiting, surviving, & 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, & contemporary essays & stories by such beloved writers as John Mc Phee, Ann Zwinger, Edward Abbey, Terry Tempest Williams, Barry Lopez, Linda Hogan, & Craig Childs. Lively tales written by unschooled river runners, unabashedly popular fiction, & memoirs stand alongside finely crafted literary works to represent full range of human experience in this wild, daunting, & inspiring landscape.