The Last Canyon: A NovelHMH, 26 сент. 2002 г. - Всего страниц: 352 A historical novel about John Wesley Powell’s nineteenth-century expedition through the Grand Canyon: “A riveting adventure tale” (The Seattle Times). In 1869, John Wesley Powell set out on a voyage of exploration through the Grand Canyon, the last great expedition of discovery in US history. In this vivid novel, John Vernon intertwines two stories—that of Powell and his crew, and that of a band of Paiute Indians, known as the Shivwits, who lived on the north rim of the canyon. As the novel moves inexorably toward a violent encounter between the two groups, Vernon deftly leads us into perilous geographical and emotional territory in a story of triumph, hardship, bravery, and loss. “Richly imagined.” —Los Angeles Times “No author has tried to put the reader as squarely in Powell’s waterlogged shoes . . . Packs a wallop.” —Salt Lake Tribune |
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... past. You should have seen our corps hail the new men as one by one they arrived. A dunking was the usual salutation, but George Bradley glowered and backed off his greeting party, including Bill Dunn, and George is even shorter than I ...
... past. You should have seen our corps hail the new men as one by one they arrived. A dunking was the usual salutation, but George Bradley glowered and backed off his greeting party, including Bill Dunn, and George is even shorter than I ...
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... past shawls of foam pouring over boulders left and right of their boat. The river slowed as it curved. "Ain't you done with that yet?" Jack Sumner barked. Bill Dunn fumbling with the tholepin again. "Can't get it backin." "We rode all ...
... past shawls of foam pouring over boulders left and right of their boat. The river slowed as it curved. "Ain't you done with that yet?" Jack Sumner barked. Bill Dunn fumbling with the tholepin again. "Can't get it backin." "We rode all ...
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... past, no one had. Or if they had they weren't saying. Jack Sumner's mustache had bleached in the sun, and like Hawkins Jack was short though round-shouldered, a human cannonball. He'd given up his store in Hot Sulphur Springs to come on ...
... past, no one had. Or if they had they weren't saying. Jack Sumner's mustache had bleached in the sun, and like Hawkins Jack was short though round-shouldered, a human cannonball. He'd given up his store in Hot Sulphur Springs to come on ...
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... past the worst of the rapids, and when it ran out of rope Wes climbed a rock and raised his flag. He made sure they were ready—the six men upstream hanging on to the stern rope, and the two downstream. He swung the flag down in a wide ...
... past the worst of the rapids, and when it ran out of rope Wes climbed a rock and raised his flag. He made sure they were ready—the six men upstream hanging on to the stern rope, and the two downstream. He swung the flag down in a wide ...
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... past looming landforms whose secrets had locked up millennia of history. He'd studied erosion, analyzed rocks, read about uplifts, and rejected the notion that earth's scarred and knotted surface was the product of catastrophe, as ...
... past looming landforms whose secrets had locked up millennia of history. He'd studied erosion, analyzed rocks, read about uplifts, and rejected the notion that earth's scarred and knotted surface was the product of catastrophe, as ...
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Part Three July 3July 131869 | |
Part Four | |
Part Five July 14July 191869 | |
Part Six | |
Part Seven July 20Angnst 3 1869 | |
Part Eight | |
Part Nine August 5August 28 1869 | |
Part Ten | |
Epilogue One Year Later September 1870 | |
Back Matter | |
Back Cover | |
Spine | |
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