The Colorado River in the Grand Canyon: A River Runner's Map and Guide to Its Natural and Human History

by Larry Stevens, Kristen Caldon (Photographer), Raechel Running (Photographer)

The Colorado River in Grand A River Runner’s Map and Guide to its Natural and Human History, by Larry Stevens, is designed for running the river, for scribbling notes about rapids, camps or unexpected sightings and events, and to help inform or remind us of the vast temporal and spatial scope of Grand Canyon. Our knowledge of Grand Canyon is ever-expanding, and this guidebook is a work in progress.

144 pages, Ring-bound

Published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[Eduardo · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received this book from an outfitting company as part of my registration for a Grand Canyon rafting trip. It is tremendously useful as a guide while on the river and made for interesting reading afterwards. I wish I would have had it prior to my trip so I could have made some notes about what to look for, where to look for it, and when it would be visible.

With that said, most of the written sections of the book need some serious editing, as typos and questionable grammar decisions abound. It is still readable but I found those bits hard to ignore. I also wish there were more pictures of different, especially common, flora and fauna so I could have connected what I read to what I saw.