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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ron Charles, The Washington PostSubscribe to the free Washington Post Book World Newsletter Ron Charles' Totally Hip Video Book Review Bookshop.org (for ordering from independent booksellers ...
Big Thompson River Canyon, Colorado; Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Colorado; Blackwater Canyon, West Virginia; Bluejohn Canyon, Utah—site of Aron Ralston's accident; Breaks Canyon, Kentucky and Virginia; Buckskin Gulch, Utah—possibly the longest, deepest slot canyon in the world at over 13 mi (21 km); a tributary of the Paria River
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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 ...
In “Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon,” science journalist Melissa L. Sevigny draws on the diaries of Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter ...