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Brave The Wild River : the untold story of two women who mapped the botany of the Grand Canyon / Melissa L. Sevigny.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2024Copyright date: ©2023Description: 290 pages illustrations, map 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • Juvenile
  • Adolescent
ISBN:
  • 9781324076117 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 578/.09 23
Contents:
Prologue: stranded -- On the borders of precipices -- Have you seen that river? -- A mighty poor place for women -- There goes the Mexican hat! -- A beautiful pea-green boat -- Delayed -- Hell, yes! What river? -- Paradise -- A most unusual and hazardous means -- A hundred personalities -- Lonely for the river -- Heaven as I go along -- Legendary -- Epilogue: a woman's place.
Summary: Traces the forty-three-day journey of pioneering botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter, who in the summer of 1938, set out to catalogue the plant life of the Grand Canyon. Recounts the obstacles they faced from misogynistic doubters and the Colorado River's dangerous rapids, their successful endeavor to painstakingly identify all the plant species in the canyon, and the trip's legacy for future conservation efforts in the region.
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Books Idaho Springs Public Library ANF 578.09 SEV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 30404100301371

new book 2025 spring.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue: stranded -- On the borders of precipices -- Have you seen that river? -- A mighty poor place for women -- There goes the Mexican hat! -- A beautiful pea-green boat -- Delayed -- Hell, yes! What river? -- Paradise -- A most unusual and hazardous means -- A hundred personalities -- Lonely for the river -- Heaven as I go along -- Legendary -- Epilogue: a woman's place.

Publishers Weekly Starred, 3/20/2023

Traces the forty-three-day journey of pioneering botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter, who in the summer of 1938, set out to catalogue the plant life of the Grand Canyon. Recounts the obstacles they faced from misogynistic doubters and the Colorado River's dangerous rapids, their successful endeavor to painstakingly identify all the plant species in the canyon, and the trip's legacy for future conservation efforts in the region.

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