Bibliograph

Brave the wild river, the untold story of two women who mapped the botany of the Grand Canyon, Melissa L. Sevigny

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Brave the wild river, the untold story of two women who mapped the botany of the Grand Canyon, Melissa L. Sevigny

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Brave the wild river

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Melissa L. Sevigny

Sub title

the untold story of two women who mapped the botany of the Grand Canyon

Summary

The story of two pioneering female botanists, Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter, and their historic 1938 boat trip down the Colorado River which led them to be the first to survey and catalog the plant life of the Grand Canyon

Table Of Contents

Prologue: 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

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