Canyons of the Colorado [MP3 CD] [Jan 01, 2017] John Wesley POWELL (1834 - 1902) Unknown - 2017

IDB Productions, 2017-01-01. MP3 CD. New. In 1869, John embarked on to discover the Colorado and the Grand Canyon. He assembled nine men, four crafts and food for ten months and went from Green River, Wyoming, on May 24. By way of perilous torrents, the team went through the Green River to its convergence with the Colorado River also previously called as the Grand River upriver from the intersection, adjacent to the modern Moab, Utah. </br></br>The excursion path voyaged to the Utah canyons of the Colorado River, which John defined in his publicized diary as having spectacular topographies with carved walls, majestic arches, glens, alcove gulches, knolls and headstones. From which of these topographies must they choose a title? They all agreed to name it as Glen Canyon. Paradoxically, today around totally inundated by Lake Powell, at the rear of the Glen Canyon Dam. </br></br>A man named Goodman left after the first month and the other three namely Dunn and the Howland… Leer más