Seeing things whole : the essential John Wesley Powell /
John Wesley Powell was an American original. He was the last of the nation's great continental explorers and the first of a new breed of public servant: part scientist, part social reformer, part institution builder. His work and life reveal an enduringly valuable way of thinking about land, wa...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Washington, DC : Island Press/Shearwater Books, ©2001. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I Down the Colorado: Letters from the Wilderness Post
- Selection 1 Party Has Reached This Point in Safety 39
- Selection 2 Wreck of the No-Name 41
- Part II Voyage into the Great Unknown
- Selection 3 Through the Grand Canyon from the Little Colorado to the Virgin River 61
- Part III Among the Natives of the Colorado Plateau
- Selection 4 Camped with the Shivwits and the Fate of the Separated Three 99
- Selection 5 Ancient Province of Tusayan 107
- Part IV Report on the Lands of the Arid Region
- Selection 7 Physical Characteristics of the Arid Region 156
- Selection 8 Land System Needed for the Arid Region 185
- Part V Nation's Expert
- Selection 9 Trees on Arid Lands 219
- Selection 10 Lesson of Conemaugh 226
- Selection 11 Address to the Montana Constitutional Convention 235
- Part VI Advice for the Century
- Selection 12 Irrigable Lands of the Arid Region 255
- Selection 13 Non-Irrigable Lands of the Arid Region 281
- Selection 14 Institutions for the Arid Lands 299
- Part VII A Philosopher for Humankind
- Selection 15 From Barbarism to Civilization 325
- Selection 16 Competition as a Factor in Human Evolution 340.