DOWN THE COLORADO. John Wesley Powell; Diary of the First Trip Through the Grand Canyon, 1869.

Dust jacket notes: "One hundred years ago, ten men in four boats swept down the raging Colorado River on the first trip through the Grand Canyon. Major John Wesley Powell led the epic journey, over rapids considered impassable, to chart the unexplored river and its surrounding canyons. On August 30, 1869, thirteen weeks after the expedition left Green River Station in Wyoming Territory, the one-armed Major, with only two boats and six survivors, emerged from the canyon to find men fishing with nets for their remains. Down the Colorado contains John Wesley Powell's dramatic journal of 1869, edited and introduced by Don D. Fowler; it is as exciting today as it was when portions first appeared in Scribner's Magazine, ninety-five years ago. Drawings and photographs, the work of Powell's contemporaries, enhance the text. To reveal fully the beauty of the Grand Canyon country and the thrill of a Colorado River trip, Eliot Porter has contributed a 48-page gallery of four-color photographs. Dr. Porter, America's foremost photographer of nature and author of In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World and The Place No One Knew: Glen Canyon on the Colorado, has made several river trips to gather the breathtaking illustrations for this book. His epilogue is a memorial to Glen Canyon, which today lies drowned and lost; it is also a tribute to the river that stills roars through Marble and Grand canyons. In Eliot Porter's vivid words and pictures, the exhilaration of moving waters springs to life...'"