Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. University of California Press publisher.

Description

1. xiii, 142 p. : chiefly col. ill., col. map; 23 x 27 cm.

Summary

1. The Colorado, crucial to development in the American West, is at once wilderness, natural resource, recreation area, and wasteland. In seventy large-format color photographs, Karen Halverson captures the river's natural majesty as well as the strange and unexpected beauty of its altered state. The images take us on an intimate exploration of the Colorado's entire length--from its rugged upstream canyons, to its dams and reservoirs, to where it disappears into the desert, entirely consumed. In a personal introduction to the photographs, Halverson tells how she explored the Colorado--by car, on foot, and by raft--while learning about its transformation into a complex water delivery system. In a lyrical foreword, historian William Deverell sets the photographs in the illuminating context of Colorado River history and discovery.--From publisher description.

Subject

1. Landscapes > Colorado River Valley (Colo.-Mexico) > Pictorial works
2. Natural history > Colorado River Valley (Colo.-Mexico) > Pictorial works
3. Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) > Pictorial works
4. Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) > Description and travel

Genre/Form

1. illustrated books.
2. Illustrated works
3. Pictorial works
4. Ouvrages illustrés.
5. Bildband.

Contents

1. Map of the Colorado River basin -- Foreword / by William Deverell -- Introduction : I saw the river -- Canyon country -- Tamed waters -- Bottomlands -- Notes on the photographs.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 139).

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain