[PDF] Down The Great Unknown eBook

Author : Edward Dolnick
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 36,54 MB
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 006176034X

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Drawing on rarely examined diaries and journals, Down the Great Unknown is the first book to tell the full, dramatic story of the Powell expedition. On May 24, 1869 a one-armed Civil War veteran, John Wesley Powell and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest in the American West. The Grand Canyon, not explored before, was as mysterious as Atlantis—and as perilous. The ten men set out from Green River Station, Wyoming Territory down the Colorado in four wooden rowboats. Ninety-nine days later, six half-starved wretches came ashore near Callville, Arizona. Lewis and Clark opened the West in 1803, six decades later Powell and his scruffy band aimed to resolve the West’s last mystery. A brilliant narrative, a thrilling journey, a cast of memorable heroes—all these mark Down the Great Unknown, the true story of the last epic adventure on American soil.

Author : Edward Dolnick
Publisher :
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 33,15 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
ISBN : 9780002571906

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By 1869, the map of the United States had long since been filled in. Only one mystery remained; an immense area of the south-west, larger than any state in the union and any country in Europe, remained unexplored.

Author : Eliot Porter
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 26,12 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Explorers
ISBN :

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One hundred years ago John Wesley Powell set out to explore the Grand Canyon of the Colorado - something no man had attempted before. His official report of the voyage remains one of the great adventure stories in all the literature of the American West.

Author : Kevin Fedarko
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 21,22 MB
Release : 2014-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439159866

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The epic story of the fastest boat ride in history, on a hand-built dory named the "Emerald Mile," through the heart of the Grand Canyon on the Colorado river.

Author : Marcus du Sautoy
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 20,65 MB
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 0735221812

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“An engaging voyage into some of the great mysteries and wonders of our world." --Alan Lightman, author of Einstein’s Dream and The Accidental Universe “No one is better at making the recondite accessible and exciting.” —Bill Bryson Brain Pickings and Kirkus Best Science Book of the Year Every week seems to throw up a new discovery, shaking the foundations of what we know. But are there questions we will never be able to answer—mysteries that lie beyond the predictive powers of science? In this captivating exploration of our most tantalizing unknowns, Marcus du Sautoy invites us to consider the problems in cosmology, quantum physics, mathematics, and neuroscience that continue to bedevil scientists and creative thinkers who are at the forefront of their fields. At once exhilarating, mind-bending, and compulsively readable, The Great Unknown challenges us to consider big questions—about the nature of consciousness, what came before the big bang, and what lies beyond our horizons—while taking us on a virtuoso tour of the great breakthroughs of the past and celebrating the men and women who dared to tackle the seemingly impossible and had the imagination to come up with new ways of seeing the world.

Author : Tim McNeese
Publisher :
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 29,79 MB
Release : 2005
Category : American West
ISBN :

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In 1869 one-armed Civil War veteran John Wesley Powell led an expedition down the treacherous waters of the Green and Colorado Rivers to map America's last uncharted wilderness.

Author : John F. Ross
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 33,46 MB
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0143128957

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“A convincing case for Powell’s legacy as a pioneering conservationist.”--The Wall Street Journal "A bold study of an eco-visionary at a watershed moment in US history."--Nature A timely, thrilling account of the explorer who dared to lead the first successful expedition down the Colorado through the Grand Canyon—and waged a bitterly-contested campaign for sustainability in the West. John Wesley Powell’s first descent of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in 1869 counts among the most dramatic chapters in American exploration history. When the Canyon spit out the surviving members of the expedition—starving, battered, and nearly naked—they had accomplished what others thought impossible and finished the exploration of continental America that Lewis and Clark had begun almost 70 years before. With The Promise of the Grand Canyon, John F. Ross tells how that perilous expedition launched the one-armed Civil War hero on the path to becoming the nation’s foremost proponent of environmental sustainability and a powerful, if controversial, visionary for the development of the American West. So much of what he preached—most broadly about land and water stewardship—remains prophetically to the point today.

Author : John Wesley Powell
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 11,45 MB
Release : 2023-11-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3387313845

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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.