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This guide will lead you straight to the best attractions the region has to offer. Whether you're taking in the views at the Grand Canyon, gambling in Las Vegas or enjoying the hot pools at Jemez Springs, this guide provides all the insider tips every visitor needs, with comprehensive listings of the best hotels, restaurants, shops and nightlife for all budgets.
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"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...
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Phantom Ranch is nestled in the Grand Canyon basin on the Colorado River-a location hardly visible from the rim and only accessible after a journey through scores of geologic layers. The only way there is by river rafting, hiking, or mule, and with each foot of the journey, the traveler descends 30,000 years in geologic time. While at Phantom Ranch, the view looking above is of 1. 7 billion years of geology, all swirling together in an alphabet of...
14) Grand Canyon
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"An exploration of the Grand Canyon on a grand scale, as only Jason Chin can illustrate and explain."--
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"Among his Grand Canyon disciples, Harvey achieved legendary status long before his death due to natural causes in May 2002. Ever since the 1950s, his name had been synonymous with mastery of the wild Grand Canyon back country. His greatest legacy was what he created for others -- 1079 typewritten pages in which he carefully recorded his treks, representing the fruits of nearly three year's worth of days spent indefatigably striding through the Canyon's...
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