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Down the great unknown

Edward Dolnick

2001320 pagesabout 5–7 hours
2001
first published
  • 2001HarperCollins · ENGISBN 9780060087173
  • 2001HarperCollins · ENGISBN 9780061760341
  • 2001HarperCollins Publishers · ENGISBN 9780060087166
  • 2001HarperCollins · 367 pages · ENGISBN 9780060196196
  • 2002HarperCollins · 452 pages · ENGISBN 9780002571906
  • 2003HarperCollins Publishers Ltd · 320 pagesISBN 9780006532231
  • 2002Harper Perennial · 400 pagesISBN 9780060955861

On May 24, 1869, a one-armed Civil War veteran named John Wesley Powell and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest of the American West. No one had ever explored the fabled Grand Canyon. To adventurers of that era it was a region almost as mysterious as Atlantis -- and as perilous.

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