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04291aam a2200541 i 4500 001 5107508061B211EE96A426B62DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231003010052 008 230418t20232023miu db 000 0deng 010 $a 2023018073 020 $a 9798885792486 (large print : hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1376430164 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d BKL $d IL2 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-ut $a n-us-ut 050 10 $a QK5 $b .S48 2023 082 00 $a 578.0979132 $2 23/eng/20230418 100 1 $a Sevigny, Melissa L., $d 1986- $e author. 245 10 $a Brave the wild river : $b the untold story of two women who mapped the botany of the Grand Canyon / $c Melissa L Sevigny. 250 $a Large print edition. 260 $a Farmington Hills, MI : $b Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2023. 263 $a 2309 300 $a 489 pages (large print) ; $c 22 cm 500 $a "The text of this Large Print edition is unabridged. Other aspects of the book may vary from the original edition. Published in 2023 by arrangement with W. W. Norton & Company, Inc." 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-486). 505 0 $a 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Clover, Elzada U., $d 1897-1980 $x Travel $z Grand Canyon. $z Grand Canyon. 600 10 $a Jotter Cutter, Lois, $d 1914-2013 $x Travel $z Grand Canyon. $z Grand Canyon. 600 10 $a Nevills, Norman D., $d 1908-1949 $x Travel $z Grand Canyon. $z Grand Canyon. 611 20 $a Nevills Expedition $d (1938) 650 0 $a Botany $z Grand Canyon $z Grand Canyon $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Plant collecting $z Grand Canyon $z Grand Canyon $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Scientific expeditions $z Grand Canyon $z Grand Canyon $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Large type books. 651 0 $a Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) $x Discovery and exploration. 651 0 $a Grand Canyon (Ariz.) $x Description and travel. 941 $a 8 945 $a lpt 952 $l YTPG232 $d 20240604012640.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20240509013453.0 952 $l FYPI314 $d 20240202021657.0 952 $l KWPE446 $d 20240126010429.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20240125011511.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20240106010754.0 952 $l ETPD745 $d 20231025015250.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20231003012809.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5107508061B211EE96A426B62DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search