Down the Great Unknown

by Dolnick, Edward

• ISBN13: 9780783897769
• ISBN10: 0783897766
• Edition: Large
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Thorndike Pr

Summary

On May 24, 1869, a one-armed Civil War veteran named John Wesley Powell and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest of the American West. No one had ever explored the fabled Grand Canyon: to adventurers of that era it was a region almost as mysterious as Atlantis - and as perilous.

Author Biography

Edward Dolnick is the former chief science writer at the Boston Globe.

Table of Contents

The Challenge	p. 1
The Crew	p. 9
The Launch	p. 23
Ashley Falls	p. 37
Paradise	p. 53
Disaster	p. 57
Shiloh	p. 69
The Hornets' Nest	p. 79
Hell's Half Mile	p. 91
Fire	p. 105
The First Milestone	p. 115
Hoax	p. 127
Last Taste of Civilization	p. 137
Trapped	p. 147
"Hurra! Hurra! Hurra!"	p. 159
Outmatched	p. 169
Flash Flood	p. 181
To the Taj Mahal	p. 193
Grand Canyon	p. 205
Time's Abyss	p. 215
The Great Unknown	p. 227
Sockdolager	p. 239
Fight	p. 251
Misery	p. 259
Separation Rapid	p. 267
Deliverance	p. 275
The Vanishing	p. 279
Epilogue	p. 287
Notes	p. 293
Bibliography	p. 341
Acknowledgments	p. 353
Index	p. 355
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