Description: 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. Book and Mortar Record Store Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon -- Melissa L. Sevigny 25.35 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. Author: Melissa L. Sevigny Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Published: 05/23/2023 Pages: 304 Binding Type: Hardcover Weight: 1.10lbs Size: 9.30h x 6.28w x 1.07d ISBN: 9780393868234 Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 03/20/2023 Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2023 Booklist 04/01/2023 pg. 8
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Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Artist: Sevigny, Melissa L.
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Book Title: Brave the Wild River : the Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
Publication Year: 2023
Item Height: 1.1 in
Topic: Women, Life Sciences / Botany, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), United States / West / Mountain (Az, Co, Id, Mt, NM, Nv, Ut, WY), Adventurers & Explorers, Essays & Travelogues, Environmentalists & Naturalists, History, Parks & Campgrounds, Expeditions & Discoveries
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Travel, Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 17.4 Oz
Item Length: 9.4 in
Author: Melissa L. Sevigny
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
