ANTHOLOGY SYNOPSIS
GRAND CANYO ANTHOLOGY, subtitled A Rim-to-River Interpretive Tour is a comprehensive educational tour de force (can be used for self-learners) and provides all the relevant subject matter of the Grand Canyon (see below for a table of contents).If you are planning to visit here and hiking some of the canyon’s many trails that lead into depths of this mile-deep abyss, or prefer seeing the immensity of its backdrop from the rim, what follows in this comprehensive text will provide all the essentials of what you’re seeing and experiencing. Hence, the essential facts, details, suppositions (mainly, about its timely process of creation), engaging subject matter such as human history, flora and fauna, suggestions geared to favored vistas, hotels, places to eat, hiking trails, among other miscellaneous information that’s useful to the visitor. More importantly, this text is based on interpretation. In other words, learning the essentials of subject matter, and not just being told about this, that, and the other thing. Given this modality of a higher standard of edification. Here is what the National Park Service says about an interpretative manner of sharing information with visitors:
Interpretation is driven by a philosophy that charges interpreters to help audiences care about park resources. Interpretation establishes the value of preserving park resources by helping people discover the meanings and significance associated with those resources. This competency requires interpreters at all levels to understand the core definition of interpretation, the professional standards for interpretation, the purpose of interpretation, how interpretation can be measured, and how successful interpretation works. These understandings continually evolve and increase in sophistication throughout an interpreter’s career.
This declaration is precisely what this anthology text is all about. That said, there is a legion of books written about the Grand Canyon and this is another effort, but with a difference. Namely, an anthology, in the guise of an encyclopedia entails all the essentials (and then some). Like any encyclopedia, the reader chooses what to read or ignore. Thus, a focus on chapter and subject material that meets one’s interest. In this voluminous text, the chapters are referred to as side canyons, which, in reality, denote drainages, similar to tendrils, reaching toward the Colorado River. Most assuredly, there are numerous side canyons in the context of a greater canyon. Hence, the Grand Canyon.
Think of this book in the guise of an encyclopedia where the reader chooses what to read.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
• CANYON ESSENTIALS, Part I––The General Layout
Hike to Tributary 1 (page x)
• CANYON ESSENTIALS, Part II––Dimensions and Such
Hike to Tributary 2 (page x)
• CANYON ESSENTIALS, Part III––Essentials of Geology
Hike to Tributary 3 (page x)
• THE BASIC STUFF OF ROCKS
Hike to Tributary 4 (page x)
• THE AGE OF THE EARTH IN ROCK CHAPTERS
Hike to Tributary 5 (page x)
• GRADIENTS AND LIFE FORMS
Hike to Tributary 6 (page x)
• CANYON SOLEMNIZING
Hike to Tributary 7 (page x)
• THE COLORADO RIVER, Part I––All About Whitewater
Hike to Tributary 8 (page x)
• THE COLORADO RIVER, Part II––History’s Famous River Runners
Hike to Tributary 9 (page x)
• THE COLORADO RIVER, Part III––Celebrated Mile Posts
Hike to Tributary 10 (page x)
• CALL ME GRAND CANYON
Hike to Tributary 11 (page x)
• THE CLOCK OF TIME
Hike to Tributary 12 (page x)
• YESTERDAY AND TODAY, Part I––Ancient Canyon Dwellers
Hike to Tributary 13 (page x)
• YESTERDAY AND TODAY, Part II––The Conquistadors and the New Americans
Hike to Tributary 14 (page x)
• MAJOR POWELL, THE IMPERVIOUS EXPLORER––The Historical Perspective
Hike to Tributary 15 (page x)
• MAJOR POWELL, THE IMPERVIOUS EXPLORER––The Oarsmen
Hike to Tributary 16 (page x)
• MAJOR POWELL, THE IMPERVIOUS EXPLORER––To the Grand River
Hike to Tributary 17 (page x)
• MAJOR POWELL, THE IMPERVIOUS EXPLORER––The Canyons of the Colorado
Hike to Tributary 18 (page x)
• MAJOR POWELL, THE IMPERVIOUS EXPLORER––To the Grand Wash Cliffs
Hike to Tributary 19 (page x)
• HIKING TRAILS: South and North Rims
Hike to Tributary 20 (page x)
• HIKER LIST AND HIKER NOTES
Hike to Tributary 21 (page x)
• MORE CANYON ESSENTIALS, Part I––The Building Blocks Explained
Hike to Tributary 22 (page x)
• MORE CANYON ESSENTIALS, Part II––Where and How the Canyon Got its Start
Hike to Tributary 23 (page x)
• MORE CANYON ESSENTIALS, Part III––The Canyon Carver of the Plateau
Hike to Tributary 24 (page x)
• ROCKS––IT’S ALL ABOUT ROCKS AND GEOLOGY, Part I
Hike to Tributary 25 (page x)
• ROCKS––IT’S ALL ABOUT ROCKS AND GEOLOGY, Part II
Hike to Tributary 26 (page x)
• ROCKS––IT’S ALL ABOUT ROCKS AND GEOLOGY, Part III
Hike to Tributary 27 (page x)
• GENESIS AND ENIGMAS
Hike to Tributary 28 (page x)
ADDENDUM
I) A GEOLOGIC GLOSSARY
II) THE MOTHER LANDSCAPE: The Colorado Plateau
III) A GLEN CANYON-LAKE POWELL ABSTRACT: A Beneficial or Harmful Affair
IV) MAJOR POWELL, THE EXPLORER: A Faux Pas Or A Critical Oversight?
V) THE MINUTIAE OF THE GRAND CANYON’S ORIGINS
Note: the page numbers are not yet know because this text of some 625 pages is still being revised.
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