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100 1 _aSevigny, Melissa L.,
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_eauthor.
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245 1 0 _aBrave the wild river :
_bthe untold story of two women who mapped the botany of the Grand Canyon /
_cMelissa L. Sevigny.
246 3 0 _aUntold story of two women who mapped the botany of the Grand Canyon
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bW.W. Norton & Company,
_c[2023]
264 4 _c©2023
300 _a290 pages :
_billustrations, map ;
_c23 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 263-280) and index.
505 0 _aPrologue: 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.
520 _a"The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists and veteran river runners boldly proclaimed that the motley crew would never make it out alive. But for Clover and Jotter, the expedition held a tantalizing appeal: no one had yet surveyed the plant life of the Grand Canyon, and they were determined to be the first. Through the vibrant letters and diaries of the two women, science journalist Melissa L. Sevigny traces their daring forty-three-day journey down the river, during which they meticulously cataloged the thorny plants that thrived in the Grand Canyon's secret nooks and crannies. Along the way, they chased a runaway boat, ran the river's most fearsome rapids, and turned the harshest critic of female river runners into an ally. Clover and Jotter's plant list, including four new cactus species, would one day become vital for efforts to protect and restore the river ecosystem. Brave the Wild River is a spellbinding adventure of two women who risked their lives to make an unprecedented botanical survey of a defining landscape in the American West, at a time when human influences had begun to change it forever"--
600 1 0 _aClover, Elzada U.,
_d1897-1980
_xTravel
_zArizona
_zGrand Canyon.
_983502
600 1 0 _aJotter Cutter, Lois,
_d1914-2013
_xTravel
_zArizona
_zGrand Canyon.
_983503
600 1 0 _aNevills, Norman D.,
_d1908-1949
_xTravel
_zArizona
_zGrand Canyon.
_983504
611 2 0 _aNevills Expedition
_d(1938)
_983505
611 2 1 _aNevills Expedition
_d(1938)
_983505
650 0 _aWomen travelers
_zArizona
_zGrand Canyon
_xHistory
_y20th century.
_983506
650 0 _aBotanists
_zArizona
_zGrand Canyon
_vBiography.
_983507
650 0 _aBotany
_zArizona
_zGrand Canyon
_xHistory
_y20th century.
_983508
650 0 _aPlant collecting
_zArizona
_zGrand Canyon
_xHistory
_y20th century.
_983509
650 0 _aScientific expeditions
_zArizona
_zGrand Canyon
_xHistory
_y20th century.
_983510
651 0 _aGrand Canyon (Ariz.)
_xDiscovery and exploration.
_983511
651 0 _aColorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
_xDiscovery and exploration.
_983512
651 0 _aGrand Canyon (Ariz.)
_xDescription and travel.
_983513
655 0 _aTravel writing.
_982479
655 0 _aBiographies.
_976603
856 4 2 _uhttps://depts.washington.edu/hortlib/book/brave-the-wild-river/
_yMiller Library review
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