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How the Canyon Became Grand by Stephen J. Pyne

How the Canyon Became Grand

A Short History

A Short History

By Stephen J. Pyne

By Stephen J. Pyne

By Stephen J. Pyne

By Stephen J. Pyne

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Category: U.S. History

Category: U.S. History

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Jul 01, 1999 | ISBN 9780140280562

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    About How the Canyon Became Grand

    Dismissed by the first Spanish explorers as a wasteland, the Grand Canyon lay virtually unnoticed for three centuries until nineteenth- century America rediscovered it and seized it as a national emblem. This extraordinary work of intellectual and environmental history tells two tales of the Canyon: the discovery and exploration of the physical Canyon and the invention and evolution of the cultural Canyon–how we learned to endow it with mythic significance.Acclaimed historian Stephen Pyne examines the major shifts in Western attitudes toward nature, and recounts the achievements of explorers, geologists, artists, and writers, from John Wesley Powell to Wallace Stegner, and how they transformed the Canyon into a fixture of national identity. This groundbreaking book takes us on a completely original journey through the Canyon toward a new understanding of its niche in the American psyche, a journey that mirrors the making of the nation itself.

    About How the Canyon Became Grand

    Dismissed by the first Spanish explorers as a wasteland, the Grand Canyon lay virtually unnoticed for three centuries until nineteenth- century America rediscovered it and seized it as a national emblem. This extraordinary work of intellectual and environmental history tells two tales of the Canyon: the discovery and exploration of the physical Canyon and the invention and evolution of the cultural Canyon–how we learned to endow it with mythic significance.Acclaimed historian Stephen Pyne examines the major shifts in Western attitudes toward nature, and recounts the achievements of explorers, geologists, artists, and writers, from John Wesley Powell to Wallace Stegner, and how they transformed the Canyon into a fixture of national identity. This groundbreaking book takes us on a completely original journey through the Canyon toward a new understanding of its niche in the American psyche, a journey that mirrors the making of the nation itself.

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    About Stephen J. Pyne

    Stephen J. Pyne is a professor of history at Arizona State University, a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, and winner of the 1995 Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Award for Arts and Letters. His book The Ice was named one of The… More about Stephen J. Pyne

    About Stephen J. Pyne

    Stephen J. Pyne is a professor of history at Arizona State University, a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, and winner of the 1995 Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Award for Arts and Letters. His book The Ice was named one of The… More about Stephen J. Pyne

    Product Details

    Category: U.S. History

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jul 01, 1999 | 240 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780140280562

    Category: U.S. History

    Ebook | $6.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jul 01, 1999 | 240 Pages | ISBN 9781101177587

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    Table Of Contents

    Overlook: The View from Dutton Point
    Two New Worlds
    Canyon, Found and Lost
    Second Age, Second Chance
    Convergence
    Rim and River
    Lonely and Majestic Way: Big Cañon
    Into the Great Unknown: Grand Canyon
    Against the Currents: Return to Big Cañon
    A Great Innovation: Grand Ensemble
    Leave It as It Is: One of the Great Sights
    Canyon and Cosmos
    Modernism Moves On: The Populist Canyon
    Down the River and Back from the Brink: The Environmentalist Canyon

    Afterword: A Review from Point Sublime
    Appendix: The Grand Canyon: A Graphical Profile
    Notes
    Sources and Further Readings
    Index

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