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The book was published on October 1, 1994, by St. Martin's Press. The work is set in the 1970s and is styled as an in-world nonfictional memoir looking back at the experiment. Naturalist Dr. Hugo Archibald delivers Jennie, a chimpanzee, from her dying mother in the Cameroons and brings her home to his American family. The Archibalds try raising ...
Over the last 2 million years, glaciers have covered most of North America, creating most of the land formations seen today. While previous ice ages affected the park area, the most recent, the Wisconsin Ice Age (85,000–10,000 years ago), touched only the most western and eastern parts of the park. This has left many geological features in ...
Photographs of the American West, Boston Public Library The Book Cliff in Helper, Utah. The Book Cliffs are a series of desert mountains and cliffs in western Colorado and eastern Utah in the Western United States. [1] They are so named because the cliffs of Cretaceous sandstone capping many of the south-facing buttes appear similar to a shelf ...
An image from the Grand Canyon's hermit trail, one of the trails used as an inspiration for the book. Some critics labeled the book as like a tour guide, [4] [5] with it including a two-page map at the start. [6] Chin tried to remain true to his experience visiting the Canyon and to a plausible recreation of the past, except in two ...
SEE ALSO: This day in history: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shot in Arizona While other explorers also traveled to the rim of the canyon, few descended into vast depth of the valley until the 19th century.
It won the 1956 William Allen White Children's Book Award. Thomas McKee, the former manager of Wiley's Camp on the North Rim of the Canyon, read Henry's novel and wrote to express his interest in the book. McKee told Henry that his son, Bob, was Brighty's closest companion. He sent Henry a photograph of young Bob McKee sitting on Brighty's back.
Fletcher thus only walked about half of the physical canyon, though he was correct in saying he was the first to walk the section of the canyon designated as a national park. Kenton Grua, a professional river guide, was the first person in recorded history to walk the entire length of the Grand Canyon, in 1977. He was inspired by Fletcher's ...
The book has received attention in the sporting world for McDougall's description of how he overcame injuries by modeling his running after the Tarahumara. [ 3 ] He asserts that modern cushioned running shoes are a major cause of running injury, pointing to the thin sandals worn by Tarahumara runners, and the explosion of running-related ...