The Grand Canyon Reader

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-520-27078-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 484 g

This superb anthology brings together some of the most powerful and compelling writing about the Grand Canyon—stories, essays, and poems written across five centuries by people inhabiting, surviving, and attempting to understand what one explorer called the "Great Unknown." The Grand Canyon Reader includes traditional stories from native tribes, reports by explorers, journals by early tourists, and contemporary essays and stories by such beloved writers as John McPhee, Ann Zwinger, Edward Abbey, Terry Tempest Williams, Barry Lopez, Linda Hogan, and Craig Childs. Lively tales written by unschooled river runners, unabashedly popular fiction, and memoirs stand alongside finely crafted literary works to represent full range of human experience in this wild, daunting, and inspiring landscape.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Newman, Lance

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Stories of the Great Unknown

The Rim
Amil Quayle, Grand Canyon

Craig Childs, Fear of God

Ann Zwinger, Bright Angel Trail

Edward Abbey, Havasu

Colin Fletcher, The Man Who Walked through Time

Joseph Wood Krutch, Where Solitude Is Easy to Find

Theodore Roosevelt, A Cougar Hunt on the Rim of the Grand Canyon

John Muir, The Grand Cañon of the Colorado

Harriet Monroe, The Grand Cañon of the Colorado

The River
Sharlot Hall, The Song of the Colorado

Patricia McCairen, Canyon Solitude

Terry Tempest Williams, Stone Creek Woman

Barry Lopez, Gone Back into the Earth

John McPhee, A River

Bill Beer, Lava Falls

Bert Loper, Three Boys and an Old Man

George Flavell, The Log of the Panthon

John Wesley Powell, The Grand Cañon of the Colorado

The People
Michael Kabotie, Grand Canyon National Park

Linda Hogan, Plant Journey

Wallace Stegner, Packhorse Paradise

Joseph C. Ives, Mojave Valley to Big Canyon

Francisco Garcés, Mojave Crossing to Oraibe Pueblo

Pedro de Castañeda, The Hopi Mesas and the Colorado River

G.{ths}M. Mullett, The Story of Tiyo

Hualapai, Tudjupa Creates the People

Ramson Lomatewama, They Told Stories

Further Reading

Credits

Über Autor(innen)

Lance Newman, Professor of English at Westminster College, has worked as a Grand Canyon river guide for twenty years. He is the author of Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature as well as two chapbooks of poems, 3by3by3 and Come Kanab: A Little Red Songbook.