Glen Canyon Betrayed

Author : Katie Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781892327062
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Glen Canyon Betrayed written by Katie Lee and published by . This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katie Lee's book, Glen Canyon Betrayed, should be read by all wilderness lovers. It beautifully invokes what it is like to have the freedom to explore one's deepest values within the intimacy of nature's rapture. Sadly, this freedom is increasingly diminished by the commercial clutter of a river that is increasingly being managed as a theme park for the wealthy. Katie's works are paeans to the wild, sacred heart of a paradise lost. For more than a decade, she regularly ran Glen Canyon before it was buried under trillions of tons of water in 1962. Her book recreates the beauty of the Glen, describes the characters that lived there, and tells how it changed her life.

Author : Katie Lee
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781555662295
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All My Rivers are Gone written by Katie Lee and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Brower, who has always regretted the Sierra Club's failure to save the Glen Canyon, called it The Place No One Knew. But Katie Lee was among a handful of men and women who knew the 170 miles of Glen Canyon very well. She'd made sixteen trips down the river, even named some of the side canyons. Glen Canyon and the river that ran through it had changed her life. Her descriptions of a magnificent desert oasis and its rich archaeological ruins are a paean to paradise lost.In 1963, the U.S. Government's Bureau of Reclamation (the Wreck-the-nation bureau, Katie calls it) shut off the flow of the Colorado River at Glen Canyon Dam, beginning the process of flooding this natural treasure. Two generations have been born since the dam was built, and in a few more decades there may be no one alive who will have known the place. Katie Lee won't forget Glen Canyon, and she doesn't want anyone else to forget it either. She tells us what there was to love about Glen Canyon and why we should miss it. The canyon had great personal significance for her: She had gone to Hollywood to make her career as an actress and a singer, but the river kept calling her back, showing her a better way to live. She very eloquently weaves her personal story into her breathtaking descriptions of the trips she made down the canyon.In recent years, Katie has found allies in her struggle to restore the canyon. The Glen Canyon Institute has been joined by the Sierra Club in calling for the draining of Lake Powell (Rez Foul, in Katie's words), and the idea is being debated on editorial pages across the country and in congressional hearings. All My Rivers Are Gone celebrates a great American landscape, mournsits loss, and challenges us to undo the damage and forever prevent such mindless destruction in the future.

Author : Katie Lee
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781555663384
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sandstone Seduction written by Katie Lee and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sandstone Seduction", Katie Lee's Arizona memoir, limns her love affair with the Southwest, where she grew up in the 1940s.

Author : Richard B Norgaard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134915632
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Development Betrayed written by Richard B Norgaard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-05-18 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernity promised control over nature through science, material abundance through technology and effective government through rational, social organization. Instead of leading to this promised land it has brought us to the brink of environmental and cultural disaster. Why has there been this gap between modernity's aspirations and its achievements? Development Betrayed offers a powerful answer to this question. Development with its unshakeable commitment to the idea of progress, is rooted in modernism and has been betrayed by each of its major tenets. Attempts to control nature have led to the brink of environmental catastrophe. Western technologies have proved inappropriate for the needs of the South, and governments are unable to respond effectively to the crises that have resulted. Offering a thorough and lively critiques of the ideas behind development, Richard Norgaard also offers an alternative co-evolutionary paradigm, in which development is portrayed as a co-evolution between cultural and ecological systems. Rather than a future with all peoples merging to one best way of knowing and doing things, he envisions a future of a patchwork quilt of cultures with real possibilities for harmony.

Author : Tad Nichols
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Glen Canyon written by Tad Nichols and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of photographs and text describes the Glen Canyon region, which was later flooded to create Lake Powell.

Author : Katie Lee
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826323354
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle written by Katie Lee and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic of cowboy lore including illustrations by cowboy artist William Moyers, first published in 1976, is now available only from the University of New Mexico Press. "A beautiful job, exact, comprehensive and witty. Should remain a basic history of the subject for many years to come."--Edward Abbey

Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781942185253
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drowned River written by Rebecca Solnit and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs by Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe; text by Rebecca Solnit.

Author : David McGowan
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1909394130
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon written by David McGowan and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The very strange but nevertheless true story of the dark underbelly of a 1960s hippie utopia. Laurel Canyon in the 1960s and early 1970s was a magical place where a dizzying array of musical artists congregated to create much of the music that provided the soundtrack to those turbulent times. Members of bands like the Byrds, the Doors, Buffalo Springfield, the Monkees, the Beach Boys, the Turtles, the Eagles, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Steppenwolf, CSN, Three Dog Night and Love, along with such singer/songwriters as Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, James Taylor and Carole King, lived together and jammed together in the bucolic community nestled in the Hollywood Hills. But there was a dark side to that scene as well. Many didn’t make it out alive, and many of those deaths remain shrouded in mystery to this day. Far more integrated into the scene than most would like to admit was a guy by the name of Charles Manson, along with his murderous entourage. Also floating about the periphery were various political operatives, up-and-coming politicians and intelligence personnel – the same sort of people who gave birth to many of the rock stars populating the canyon. And all the canyon’s colorful characters – rock stars, hippies, murderers and politicos – happily coexisted alongside a covert military installation.

Author : Kent Frost
Publisher : Canyon County Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780925685339
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Canyonlands written by Kent Frost and published by Canyon County Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vince Welch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781892327079
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Doing of the Thing written by Vince Welch and published by . This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: