Brave the wild river the untold story of two women who mapped the botany of the Grand Canyon
The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zool...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
2024.
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| Edition: | [Trade paperback edition]. |
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| Summary: | The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. For Clover and Jotter, the expedition held a tantalizing appeal: no one had yet surveyed the plant life of the Grand Canyon, and they were determined to be the first. Through the vibrant letters and diaries of the two women, science journalist Melissa L. Sevigny traces their daring forty-three-day journey down the river, during which they meticulously cataloged the thorny plants that thrived in the Grand Canyon's secret nooks and crannies. |
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| Physical Description: | 290 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-280) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781324076117 1324076119 |
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