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The Grand Canyon of the Colorado : Recurrent Studies in Impressions and Appearances
author
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Van Dyke, John Charles.
publisher
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University of Utah Press
isbn10 | asin
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0874803888
print isbn13
:
9780874803884
ebook isbn13
:
9780585112220
language
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English
subject
Grand Canyon (Ariz.)
publication date
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1992
lcc
:
E788.V24 1992eb
ddc
:
917.9.1/32
subject
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Grand Canyon (Ariz.)
Page i
The Grand Canyon of the Colorado
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From a photograph by F. A. Lathe, copyrighted by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. Pima Point, looking west.
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THE GRAND CANYON OF THE COLORADO
Recurrent Studies in Impressions and Appearances
by John C. Van Dyke
Foreword by Peter Wild
University of Utah Press Salt Lake City
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Copyright 1920 Charles Scribner's Sons Foreword copyright 1992 University of Utah Press
The paper in this book meets the standards for permanence and durability established by the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Van Dyke, John Charles, 1856-1932. The Grand Canyon of the Colorado : recurrent studies in impressions and appearances / by John C. Van Dyke, with illustrations from photographs; foreword by Peter Wild. p. cm. Originally published: New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1920. With new foreword. ISBN 0-87480-388-8 (alk. paper) 1. Grand Canyon (Ariz.) I. Title. E788.V24 1992 917.9.1 '32-dc20 92-53610 CIP
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Contents
Page
Foreword by Peter Wild
vii
Preface-Dedication
xxix
Chapter
I. The Rim
1
II. Magnitude and Scale
11
III. Canyon Carving
24
IV. Arena-Making
37
V. The Great Denudation
47
VI. The Canyon Walls
57
VII. Buttes and Promontories
75
VIII. Bright Angel and Hermit Trails
90
IX. Other River-Trails
106
X. The Colorado
122
XI. Night in the Canyon
134
XII. Rim Views
144
XIII. Grand and Desert View
156
XIV. From Dawn to Dusk
171
XV. The Tusayan Forest
181
XVI. The Cliff-Dweller
196
XVII. The Discovery
205
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Foreword
On March 9, 1989, a German tourist named Gisela Elixmann died at the Grand Canyon. Standing on the edge of the South Rim, the young woman gazed into the great hole in the earth, grew dizzy, and simply tumbled in. Four days later, Yuri Nagata, a visitor from Japan, suffered a similar fate.
That's not to say that such deaths are common at the Grand Canyon. People beholding the Southwest's most popular natural spectacle do not regularly topple witlessly into the Great Abyss. In fact, a ranger at the Grand Canyon National Park assures me that only about one person a year dies in such a manner, statistically a small figure when measured against the four million visitors who annually flock to the park. Nevertheless, the danger is real. For the ranger also notes that tourists often feel queasy during their first glance into the chasm. Full of anticipation, they rush from their cars to see the sight they've hear about all their lives. Yet when they reach the guardrail, panic grips them. They twitch and grimace at what's before them, fight to get their breaths, and have to sit down. The Grand Canyon is so vast, so various, and so beyond ordinary experience that
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people reel before it, disoriented by the incomprehensible.
Tourists are not the only ones who suffer confusion before the natural wonder. Writers, too, have stood on the brink, faced the emptiness, trembled, and then plunged in. With such words as "And there, defeating my senses, was the depth," and "all alike have failed," author after wheyfaced author has announced the impossibility of describing the Grand Canyon. And then, of course, tried to describe it. This behavior is not the old writer's trick of exaggerating the difficulties ahead to appear all the more accomplished when tackling them. Perhaps Frank Waters is right when he says in The Colorado that the Grand Canyon is ''beyond comprehension" A landscape of so many huge and diverse parts defies capture between two covers. We have fine studies of specific aspects of the Canyon, of its wildlife, flowers, trails, geology, and such. Yet few writers convey a harmonious impression of the whole
It could be that the fault lies within us. Because we perceive the world in patterns, we want a unified view that may not exist in reality. Some Navajo Indians approach the difficulty by cloaking the Canyon in myth. They believe that long ago a great inland sea covered the area. The water finally broke out, leaving the passageway the Colorado River now
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