Download PDF The Grand Canyon Between River and Rim Pete McBride Kevin Fedarko Hampton Sides The Grand Canyon Conservancy 9780847863044 Books

Product details Hardcover 236 pages Publisher Rizzoli (September 25, 2018) Language English ISBN-10 0847863042

The Grand Canyon Between River and Rim Pete McBride Kevin Fedarko Hampton Sides The Grand Canyon Conservancy 9780847863044 Books Reviews

• I’m just going to say WOW! If you’ve ever stood on the rim of the Grand Canyon and wondered what was hidden deep in the fabric of the place, this book is for you. That gigantic gaping hole has complexity, delicate textures, and subtilty that defies the God’s eye view from the rim. Pete McBride’s photos convey a stunningly intimate connection to a National Park so large that it can be seen from space, so deep that it bisects the entire State of Arizona with an impassible mile deep moat, and yet so fragile that it’s being destroyed by developers surrounding the place to cash in on the Worldwide brand that is the Grand Canyon. Most impressive, McBride walked the entire end-to-end length of the Grand Canyon over a 13 month period to bring these pictures home.
  
  I particularly love how the photos change seasons telling a pictorial story of erosion and time. Of course, there are photos of the Colorado River flowing through the Grand Canyon in amazing light, but I found the intimate shots of slot canyons with pools and springs to be most fascinating. The landscape in the deep backcountry is riveting, but the idea of walking through that rugged terrain is almost unimaginable. Photos of the paths they followed showed an insanely difficult journey. While the tourist area is in the middle of the National Park, the eastern and western reaches, far beyond the view of tourists on the rim, are completely different and uniquely beautiful.
  
  There are few large wild areas left in the United States. McBride’s pictures helped me understand what we are losing. We shouldn’t let development mar one of the Seven Wonders of the World. We don’t have another Grand Canyon as a replacement. McBride cut his teeth shooting for National Geographic. It shows.
• This is one gorgeous, heavy, incredible coffee table book with large photos and stories from McBride and Fedarko's Grand Canyon Thru-Hike. I was fortunate to accompany them on the first leg of this trek, until they were bruised and battered to the point of retreat. There just are not enough words or photos that can portray to even the tenth degree just how difficult and impossible this trek is. I am thankful they came back and completed the arduous trek and have educated the world of the canyon's beauties and secrets; but more importantly, how they have exposed the never-ending threats that are buffeting the canyon from so many different avenues. We need to be diligent as a society to over-protect a place like Grand Canyon, so that it will be pristine for our descendants in 100 and 1000+ years. McBride has done an incredible job capturing the "Grand" vistas, river corridor, side canyons and microcosmic parts of the entire Canyon!
• I grew up with coffee table books that introduced me, with image and word, to many of the American West’s iconic landscapes. Not until now, however, did that collection include what is probably the most iconic place of them all. This book fills that void with an ambition that is nearly equal to its breathtaking imagery.
  
  That ambition? Walking the entire canyon. Not rafting. Walking. Look inside the book and you’ll quickly understand just how daunting a project that is. I know I’ll never do it. Thanks to this photographer, though, I can get a flavor of the hidden treasures I and most mortals will never see firsthand. Bravo to McBride for serving as the terrestrial equivalent of a space telescope and taking us there.
• There is a very small number of people who have hiked from one end of the Grand Canyon to the other. Pete McBride and Kevin Fedarko started out with a few other people to do it in one trip and ended up breaking it into 5 segments. While the Grand Canyon river trip is 277 mile long (measuring down the center of the Colorado River) doing it on foot is well over 700 miles as you work your way around the side canyons, looking for water and ways up and down through the layers that make up this incredible place. Pete's written story of this trip is riveting and his photographs in most cases, just take your breath away. In some cases they are standing on the edges of cliffs, looking miles into the distance and standing someplace where it is possible that no one else has ever stood before and if anyone wants to recreate the photo it would take them 5 or 6 days of hard hiking to get back to that point. These splendid images are not your usual pretty calendar photos. There is so much to see in each photo that you can come back to this book time and time again and you will see something new each time you look at it. I bought one for myself and 2 to give as gifts and I will be giving more as gifts to my friends who love this place as much as I do. One of the purposes of this book was to show just how special this place is and how worthy of protection from outside development forces this is. I knew it was going to be a really great book but it has exceeded all my expectations in that regard. To everyone who worked on this book, who helped with the expedition, Thank you.
• I rafted the Colorado after reading Kevin Fedarko’s “The Emeral Mile” so when I heard that he was embarking on this trip with McBride, I kept up with their progress. I love the book. Sadly, no photographer can capture the GC. You have to go there yourself. The immensity of its nature has to be discovered personally. I have to admit, I love the nighttime moon shot with lantern light in the Graneries. It was surreal and it reminded me that a tribe lived t
  here thousands of years ago and their mark on this land is still tangible. I too remember cacti clinging to my legs, the neophyte traveler in this land that I was. Thank you so much for this book, your treck through this marvelous land and your perseverance to show it to all. Well done.
• As an amateur photographer who has trekked extensively in the Grand Canyon region, I appreciate just how much hard work the author has put into getting some spectacular images. This is a beautiful tome that will be eye candy every time you open it. Buy it and enjoy and enjoy and enjoy!