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58 of the Region's Best Trips!Whether you're a local looking for a long weekend escape, a visitor looking to explore or you simply need some ideas when family and friends come to visit, Lonely Planet's Trips series offers the best itineraries - and makes it easy to plan the perfect trip time and again. Theme icons make finding the perfect trip simple - no matter what your interest Easy-to-use maps for every trip, plus driving times and directions Explore the region with trips ranging from two days to three weeks, and day trips from Phoenix, Albequerque and Santa Fe Local experts share their favorite trip ideas, including a former director's tour of film locations, a geologist's rock-hunting expedition and an astronomer's stargazing tour Iconic Trips chapter covers must-do trips across the region, from Motoring the Mother Road: Route 66 to A Green Chile Adventure Tune in on the road with our regional music playlists Family-friendly and pet-friendly listings throughout Green index lists the region's most environmentally friendly options Travel America with Lonely Planet Since 1984 Lonely Planet USA has published over 100 guides to America, working with over 200 American travel writers. For this Trips series our authors drove more than 100,000 miles, visited 230 diners, stopped at 810 roadside attractions and rediscovered the country they love. Visit lonelyplanet online at www.lonelyplanet.com Author: Becca Blond, Josh Krist, Jennifer Denniston, Wendy Yanagihara Paperback: 352 pages ISBN13: 9781741797299, Condition: New, Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold! Company: Lonely Planet (2009-02-15) ISBN: 1741797292 List Price: $19.99 Amazon Price: $12.23 Used Price: $6.13 
Explore the fascinating highlights, history, geology & nature of Grand Canyon National Park with this entertaining, educational, point-by-point Waypoint Tour complete with travel expert stories & detailed tour maps.Your personal tour guide for Grand Canyon travel adventure! www.waypointtours.com Waypoints Include: Grand Canyon Village Area Tour 1) Grand Canyon South Rim 2) Mather Point 3) Canyon View Information Plaza 4) Yavapai Point 5) Train Depot 6) Hopi House 7) El Tovar Hotel 8) Bright Angel Lodge 9) Lookout Studio 10) Kolb Studio 11) Bright Angel Trail Overview Western Hermit Road Tour 12) Trailview Overlook 13) Maricopa Point 14) Powell Point 15) Hopi Point 16) Mohave Point 17) The Abyss 18) Pima Point 19) Hermits Rest Eastern Desert View Drive Tour 20) South Kaibab Trail Overview 21) Yaki Point 22) Grandview Point 23) Moran Point 24) Tusayan Ruin 25) Lipan Point 26) Navajo Point 27) Desert View 28) North Rim Author: Waypoint Tours Kindle Edition: 34 pages Kindle eBook Company: (2011-06-24) (2011-06-24) List Price: $4.99 Amazon Price: 
Whether your interest in the Grand Canyon is in a quick look from a few of the rim view points, a week-long whitewater trip on the Colorado River, a stay in a lodge on the very edge of the canyon, a walk along a rim trail, camping in the rim forest, or hiking down into the canyon, this book is for you. Grand Canyon Guide is based on my dozens of years experience exploring the Canyon. This book is designed to complement the companion website, www.GrandCanyonGuide.net. The website has much of the same information, but as it is a website, I am able to update it more frequently. Although I provide many links within the book, some websites may not work well on the Kindle. Links that reference chapters within this book have chapter names, such as Contents, while links to external websites always have the Web address, such as www.GrandCanyonGuide.net. Remember, you can alway abort a web page load by clicking the five-way controller, and then pressing the Back button. All the links in the book, and many more, are on the website. Grand Canyon Guide has two major parts: Activities covers how to get to the Grand Canyon and what do do once you're there. Exploring The Canyon is for those who want to learn more about the national park, national monument, national forest, and Indian reservations that all have a part in managing the lands of the Grand Canyon region. You can also learn more about the natural and human history of the Grand Canyon.Author: Bruce Grubbs Paperback: 174 pages Company: Bright Angel Press (2011-05-01) ISBN: 0982713053 List Price: $9.95 Amazon Price: $8.00 Used Price: $26.67 
Fully revised and updated, Hiking Grand Canyon National Park provides first-hand descriptions and detailed maps for all of the park's developed trails as well as tips on safety, hiking with children, access, and services. Includes fifteen hikes in the South Rim and thirteen hikes in the North Rim. Paperback: 256 pages Company: FalconGuides (2011-01-25) ISBN: 0762760605 List Price: $18.95 Amazon Price: $10.76 Used Price: $10.76 
Fully updated and revised, this guide includes short descriptions and maps of seventeen easy day hikes in the Grand Canyon National Park. Author: Ron Adkison Paperback: 96 pages See Description Company: FalconGuides (2010-06-01) ISBN: 076275527X List Price: $9.95 Amazon Price: $4.71 Used Price: $5.42 
See the very best of Zion & Bryce Canyon National Parks From hiking up a river to watching the sunrise over red rock spires, our expert authors guide you to your best Zion & Bryce Canyon experiences. Detailed regional, park, and trail maps Exact prices, directions, and other practical information Candid reviews of places to stay, eat, camp, and stock up on supplies Insider tips from local expert authors 
Comprehensive guide to Grand Canyon's natural history, including geology, and species illustrations on over 480 plants and animals.Author: Stephenr Whitney Paperback: 269 pages Company: Mountaineers Books (1996-11) ISBN: 0898864895 List Price: $19.95 Amazon Price: $10.38 Used Price: $7.74 
Local Arizonan Kathleen Bryant shares the many ways to experience the wonders of the Grand Canyon, from river rafting in the inner canyon to "walking on air" on the Grand Canyon Skywalk. Bryant includes a range of diverting trip strategies, including A Wild Week in the Grand Outdoors and A Romantic Weekend for Two. Including expert advice on camping along the remote North Rim and visiting the Hualapai and Havasupai Reservations, Moon Grand Canyon gives travelers the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable experience. Author: Kathleen Bryant Paperback: 284 pages Company: Avalon Travel Publishing (2011-10-11) ISBN: 1598808990 List Price: $17.99 Amazon Price: $7.73 Used Price: $7.74 
Filled with beautiful color photographs, this award-winning guidebook reveals the best of America's most famous national park. Grand Canyon: The Complete Guide equips travelers with detailed maps, travel tips, and extensive listings for lodging, camping, and sightseeing. From river rafting to mule rides, Grand Canyon is filled with adventures. But without careful planning, a trip there can be overwhelming. This guide divides Grand Canyon into sections--the South Rim, North Rim, Colorado River, and Havasu Canyon--and offers invaluable tips on enjoying the park's highlights while avoiding the crowds. The park's most popular hiking trails are covered in detail, and outfitters for backpacking, mule rides, and whitewater rafting are listed. Carefully researched chapters about the park's history, geology, and wildlife take readers behind the scenes, providing fascinating context for one of earth's greatest natural wonders. Author: James Kaiser Paperback: 304 pages Company: Destination Press (2011-03-01) ISBN: 0982517211 List Price: $22.95 Amazon Price: $13.81 Used Price: $12.61 
A judge and his wife have disappeared while boating on the Colorado River. Three river guides have had their throats slit. And Longarm will have to keep his head above water as he battles the ruthless river rats-or he may find himself up the creek without a paddle. Author: Tabor Evans Mass Market Paperback: 192 pages Company: Jove (2012-01-31) (2012-01-31) ISBN: 0515150371 List Price: $6.99 Amazon Price: $4.27 Used Price: $4.32 
Author: Lesley A. DuTempleHardcover: 96 pages Company: Lerner Publishing Group (2003-01) ISBN: 0822546914 List Price: $27.93 Amazon Price: $26.71 Used Price: $2.87 
Pete Conroy is a foreman pouring cement at Hoover Dam when he decides to take an unauthorized ride on a steam locomotive hauling aggregate to the concrete plant. When word is received that a hopper car loaded with rock has broken loose and is speeding down the grade toward the Colorado River bridge the train crew knows there will be trouble--perhaps even destroying the bridge. So Pete has to join the engineer and fireman in a desperate attempt to stop that runaway car! An enjoyable short story that action filled and easy to read!Author: Jerry Borrowman Kindle Edition: Kindle eBook Company: Black Canyon Press (2010-08-03) (2010-08-03) List Price: $0.99 Amazon Price: 
As breathtaking today as the day it was completed, Hoover Dam not only shaped the American West but helped launch the American century. In the depths of the Great Depression it became a symbol of American resilience and ingenuity in the face of crisis, putting thousands of men to work in a remote desert canyon and bringing unruly nature to heel. Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Michael Hiltzik uses the saga of the dam’s conception, design, and construction to tell the broader story of America’s efforts to come to grips with titanic social, economic, and natural forces. For embodied in the dam’s striking machine-age form is the fundamental transformation the Depression wrought in the nation’s very culture—the shift from the concept of rugged individualism rooted in the frontier days of the nineteenth century to the principle of shared enterprise and communal support that would build the America we know today. In the process, the unprecedented effort to corral the raging Colorado River evolved from a regional construction project launched by a Republican president into the New Deal’s outstanding—and enduring—symbol of national pride. Yet the story of Hoover Dam has a darker side. Its construction was a gargantuan engineering feat achieved at great human cost, its progress marred by the abuse of a desperate labor force. The water and power it made available spurred the development of such great western metropolises as Los Angeles, Phoenix, Denver, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, and San Diego, but the vision of unlimited growth held dear by its designers and builders is fast turning into a mirage. In Hiltzik’s hands, the players in this epic historical tale spring vividly to life: President Theodore Roosevelt, who conceived the project; William Mulholland, Southern California’s great builder of water works, who urged the dam upon a reluctant Congress; Herbert Hoover, who gave the dam his name though he initially opposed its construction; Frank Crowe, the dam’s renowned master builder, who pushed his men mercilessly to raise the beautiful concrete rampart in an inhospitable desert gorge. Finally there is Franklin Roosevelt, who presided over the ultimate completion of the project and claimed the credit for it. Hiltzik combines exhaustive research, trenchant observation, and unforgettable storytelling to shed new light on a major turning point of twentieth-century history. 
For eons a great river carved its way through the wilderness, a murky ribbon of churning, silt-laden water. Then came man with his gigantic dams and azure, sprawling lakes. Water, desert, dams, and mountains--astonishing contrasts in an immense land where nature, in the final analysis, is still in control. Lake Mead National Recreation Area, located in southern Nevada and northern Arizona, was established in 1964. It includes Lake Mead (Hoover Dam) and Lake Mohave (Davis Dam). 
Now in paperback! They called the river the Red Bull. Desert silt gave the Colorado its distinctive color, but it was its power and unpredictability that made its fierce reputation. Speeding down from the high Rockies, the Colorado would flood without warning, wiping out any farmer foolish enough to settle near its banks. But what if the Red Bull could be tamed? Farmlands irrigated by the Colorado's waters could bloom in the desert. Cities electrified by the Colorado's power could grow and prosper. The Hoover Dam grew from this dream and with it much of the modern American west. Built in the middle of The Great Depression, the Hoover Dam was set in an unforgiving landscape whose climate defied habitation much less intense, backbreaking physical labor. Yet, during those hard times and in that desolate place, there rose an extraordinarily sophisticated feat of modern engineering. The Hoover Dam is the dramatic story of the danger, suffering, courage and genius that went into the building of one of America's most famous landmarks. Wonders of the World series The winner of numerous awards, this series is renowned for Elizabeth Mann's ability to convey adventure and excitement while revealing technical information in engaging and easily understood language. The illustrations are lavishly realistic and accurate in detail but do not ignore the human element. Outstanding in the genre, these books are sure to bring even the most indifferent young reader into the worlds of history, geography, and architecture. "One of the ten best non-fiction series for young readers." Author: Elizabeth Mann Paperback: 48 pages ISBN13: 9781931414135, Condition: New, Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed Company: Mikaya Press (2006-09-12) ISBN: 1931414130 List Price: $9.95 Amazon Price: $5.03 Used Price: $2.02 
It's 1931 and men are desperate for jobs. A lucky few will get to work in the searing heat of the Nevada desert on the massive Hoover Dam. Their goal is to tame the mighty Colorado River with a dam that towers sixty stories high from the base of the canyon to the crest of the dam, thus creating the largest man-made like in the world. Nothing like it has ever been built. Life and Death at Hoover Dam tells the story of a handful of these men and the sacrifices they endured. From choking on gasoline fumes in 120-degree inside the diversion tunnels to dangling by slender cables from the thousand-foot walls of Black Canyon, they will put their lives at risk. In the end, these men and the 20,000 others who worked on the dam will build a monument that makes possible the palm trees of Los Angeles and the desert oasis of Phoenix. This is the story of their lives-the men who built the matchless Hoover Dam.Author: Jerry Borrowman Paperback: 256 pages ISBN13: 9780984383603, Condition: New, Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold! Company: Black Canyon Press (2010-08-16) ISBN: 0984383603 List Price: $16.95 Amazon Price: $11.05 Used Price: $2.12 
Building Hoover Dam is the most intriguing book ever written about one of the modern architectural wonders of the world. Andrew J. Dunar and Dennis McBride skillfully interweave first-hand accounts of a fascinating group of eyewitnesses. Their stories create the richest existing portrait of the building of Hoover Dam and its tremendous effect on the lives of those involved in its creation: the gritty, sometimes grisly realities of living in cardboard boxes and tents during several of the hottest Southern Nevada summers on record; the fearsome carbon monoxide deaths of tunnel builders who, it was claimed, had died of "pneumonia"; the uproarious life of nearby Las Vegas versus the tightly controlled existence of the workers in the built-overnight confines of Boulder City; and of course the astounding accomplishment of building the Dam itself and completing the task not only early but under budget!Author: Andrew J. Dunar, Dennis Mcbride Paperback: 384 pages Company: University of Nevada Press (2001-05-01) ISBN: 0874174899 List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $15.99 Used Price: $4.50 
The Hoover Dam is one of the largest dams in the world! It provides power and water to people in Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and California. Just how does the Hoover Dam work? And how many people did it take to build this amazing structure? Read this book to find out! Learn all about some remarkable sites in the Famous Places series - part of the Lightning Bolt Books(tm) collection. With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning Bolt Books(tm) bring nonfiction topics to life! Author: Jeffrey Zuehlke Paperback: 32 pages Company: Lerner Classroom (2009-09) ISBN: 0761350136 List Price: $7.95 Amazon Price: $6.11 Used Price: $6.83 
Author: Ingersoll-Rand CompanyPaperback: 144 pages Company: Nevada Pubns (1986-06) ISBN: 0913814792 List Price: $16.95 Amazon Price: $7.95 Used Price: $0.01 
In the spring of 1931, in a rugged desert canyon on the Arizona-Nevada border, an army of workmen began one of the most difficult and daring building projects ever undertakenthe construction of Hoover Dam. Through the worst years of the Great Depression as many as five thousand laborers toiled twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, to erect the huge structure that would harness the Colorado River and transform the American West. Construction of the giant dam was a triumph of human ingenuity, yet the full story of this monumental endeavor has never been told. Now, in an engrossing, fast-paced narrative, Joseph E. Stevens recounts the gripping saga of Hoover Dam. Drawing on a wealth of material, including manuscript collections, government documents, contemporary newspaper and magazine accounts, and personal interviews and correspondence with men and women who were involved with the construction, he brings the Hoover Dam adventure to life. Described here in dramatic detail are the deadly hazards the work crews faced as they hacked and blasted the dam’s foundation out of solid rock; the bitter political battles and violent labor unrest that threatened to shut the job down; the deprivation and grinding hardship endured by the workers’ families; the dam builders’ gambling, drinking, and whoring sprees in nearby Las Vegas; and the stirring triumphs and searing moments of terror as the massive concrete wedge rose inexorably from the canyon floor. Here, too, is an unforgettable cast of characters: Henry Kaiser, Warren Bechtel, and Harry Morrison, the ambitious, headstrong construction executives who gambled fortune and fame on the Hoover Dam contract; Frank Crowe, the brilliant, obsessed field engineer who relentlessly drove the work force to finish the dam two and a half years ahead of schedule; Sims Ely, the irascible, teetotaling eccentric who ruled Boulder City, the straightlaced company town created for the dam workers by the federal government; and many more men and women whose courage and sacrifice, greed and frailty, made the dam’s construction a great human, as well as technological, adventure. Hoover Dam is a compelling, irresistible account of an extraordinary American epic. Author: Joseph E. Stevens Paperback: 336 pages Company: University of Oklahoma Press (1990-09-15) ISBN: 0806122838 List Price: $19.95 Amazon Price: $7.00 Used Price: $0.01 |
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