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The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (Penguin Classics)

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Some of the great works of American exploration literature, this account of a scientific expedition forced to live to tell the tale famine, attacks, mutiny, and probably the most most dangerous rapids known to man remains as fresh and exciting today as it used to be in 1874.

The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, recently ranked number four on Adventure magazine’s list of top 100 classics, is legendary pioneer John Wesley Powell’s first-person account of his crew’s unprecedented odyssey along the Green and Colorado Rivers and through the Grand Canyon. A bold foray into the heart of the American West’s final frontier, the expedition used to be achieved without advantage of modern river-running equipment, supplies, or a firm sense of the region’s perilous topography and the attitudes of the native inhabitants towards whites.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the most efficient works all through history and across genres and disciplines. Readers consider the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and recent authors, in addition to up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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