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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian
- John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 17 hrs and 5 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner recounts the remarkable career of Major John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of the Southwest Indian tribes. This classic work is a penetrating and insightful study of the Powell’s career, from the beginning of the Powell Survey, in which Powell and his men famously became the first to descend the Colorado River, to his eventual expulsion from the Geological Survey.
In masterful prose, Stegner details the expedition, as well as the philosophies and ideas that drove Powell.
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- 2020-02-10
Fascinating but dense
Really enjoyed this book but I find the audio format suboptimal for these dense books with many names. (Similar to the Cadillac Desert.) Besides that, the story of John Wesley Powell is inspirational. As a hydrologist, I can see his ideas relevancy. He was ahead of his time and makes me wonder how things would be different if he has more support for his ideas.
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