||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Worth the read.|By Justme|Awesome book. I bought it to read while I spent a week at Lake Powell. Altogether it made for an awesome combination. The book was much thicker than I anticipated, but I saw that as a good thing. I bought a used copy, but you really couldn't see any reason to think it wasn't new.|3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.|From Library Journal|John Wesley Powell (1834-1902) is best remembered for leading the first expedition down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in 1869. However, he should more accurately be recalled for directing the survey that mapped the region arou
If the word "hero" still belonged in the historian's lexicon, it would certainly be applied to John Wesley Powell. Intrepid explorer, careful scientist, talented writer, and dedicated conservationist, Powell led the expedition that put the Colorado River on American maps and revealed the Grand Canyon to the world. Now comes the first biography of this towering figure in almost fifty years--a book that captures his life in all its heroism, idealism, and ambivalent, ambig...
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