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Historic Photo Journal, 1872 to 1964 of Glen Canyon of the Colorado River, Utah and Arizona. This beautiful canyon was drowned by the building of Glen Canyon Dam, January, 1963. This book takes us back in time to visit the canyon as if we were on the river with photos and quotations from more than 50 different contributors. It also includes a map of Lake Powell Reservoir marked as a guide for today's visitors to compare Lake Powell of today with the Glen Canyon of yesterday. ... Read more

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A Photographic Punch in the Gut
I have been working for years now on my own book about the controversy surrounding Lake Powell and Glen Canyon, and out of all the things I've read and seen, and all the people I've talked with, nothing has made the case for Glen Canyon more clearly than this book right here.If you are familiar with Lake Powell, then you know might that Gregory Butte is a tall island in the middle of Lake Powell's Last Chance Bay.But, open this amazing book and you'll see that Gregory Butte was merely a single, amazing spire surrounded by miles and miles of twisting slickrock canyons and mesas all racing and swelling toward the butte in their center.Never before was I so aware of just how much is now underwater.It's almost unbelievable.This book is beautiful, but it is also depressing and enraging for the sad truths it reveals.It will show you one of the most gorgeous places you've ever seen, and then tell you that place no longer exists, and that you can never go there.I discovered this book in the stacks at UNM, and sat on the floor for hours until I had studied every page of it.I wouldn't argue with someone that gave it five stars, but I'm giving it four solely because the book's text left a little something to be desired.Some of the quotes are quotes that have been repeated in every book ever written about Glen Canyon, and many are from a certain female folksinger that I just find annoying.
That aside, this is an amazing book.True, it idealizes Glen Canyon as a place of untouched nature--when it also had Boy Scouts that killed snakes for fun, beaches strewn with unburied human waste, and mines that indiscriminately dumped radioactive piles of uranium tailings right by the river--but there WAS still an awful lot to wax poetic about.Get this book, get this book, get this book.If you are at all interested in this subject, get this book.Buy it no matter what the cost.

A moving documentation of Glen Canyon before Lake Powell.
Glen Canyon before Lake Powell is at once a beautiful and tragic book.It consists of a collection of photographs--mostly color--of the landscape now hidden beneath the eerie turquoise waters of Lake Powell, a vast man-madereservoir on the Colorado River near the Utah-Arizona border.EditorEleanor Inskip has skillfully paired each photograph with quotations fromthose who knew Glen Canyon before the water began to rise on that fatefulday in January 1963.Explorers, river runners, popular writers,archaeologists, historians, and environmentalists all find a voice in thisextraordinary collection, but the work's greatest strength is neverthelessits images.

The book is neither strident nor moralizing in tone. Instead, a sense of quiet grief pervades.The photographs speak forthemselves, as do the observations so eloquently captured in theaccompanying quotations.In the end, the questions raised are unspoken butobvious: Who are we to decide the fate of an organism so alive and so vitalas a river?What have we lost in our relentless quest for the "goodlife?"And can it in fact be a "good life" with the watersof the Colorado stilled?Inskip respects her readers enough to let themjudge for themselves.

Admirers of Eliot Porter's famous The Place NoOne Knew, now out of print, will find this to be an appropriate companionvolume.Very highly recommended.

Moving, well-researched visual & spitual history
Through carefully chosen photographs and comments of people who experienced Glen Canyon before it was inundated by Lake Powell, Inskip presents a moving portrait of sinuous sandstone channels, lushmicroclimates, and the favorite beaches we will never again view. ... Read more

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Yesterday's Dark Tomorrow by James Powell; The Guest's Guest by Isaac Asimov; Hearing Voices by George Baxt, plus 8 more stories and other features. 50th Anniversary Cover features photo of Ann Bayer. ... Read more

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Stories by Isaac Asimov, Ruth Rendell, Clark Howard, Edward D. Hoch, Robert Barnard, James Powell, Shannon OCork, William Bankier and more. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Fishery Bulletin, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2005. The length of the article is 8490 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: An assessment of scup (Stenotomus chrysops) and black sea bass (Centropristas striata) discards in the directed otter trawl fisheries in the Mid-Atlantic Bight.
Author: Eleanor A. Bochenek
Publication: Fishery Bulletin (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 103Issue: 1Page: 1(14)

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