{"product_id":"how-the-canyon-became-grand-isbn-9780140280562","title":"How the Canyon Became Grand","description":"Dismissed by the first Spanish explorers as a wasteland, the Grand Canyon lay virtually unnoticed for three centuries until nineteenth- century America rediscovered it and seized it as a national emblem. This extraordinary work of intellectual and environmental history tells two tales of the Canyon: the discovery and exploration of the physical Canyon and the invention and evolution of the cultural Canyon--how we learned to endow it with mythic significance.Acclaimed historian \u003cb\u003eStephen Pyne\u003c\/b\u003e examines the major shifts in Western attitudes toward nature, and recounts the achievements of explorers, geologists, artists, and writers, from \u003cb\u003eJohn Wesley Powell\u003c\/b\u003e to \u003cb\u003eWallace Stegner\u003c\/b\u003e, and how they transformed the Canyon into a fixture of national identity. This groundbreaking book takes us on a completely original journey through the Canyon toward a new understanding of its niche in the American psyche, a journey that mirrors the making of the nation itself.Overlook: The View from Dutton Point\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwo New Worlds\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCanyon, Found and Lost\u003cbr\u003eSecond Age, Second Chance\u003cbr\u003eConvergence\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRim and River\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLonely and Majestic Way: Big Cañon\u003cbr\u003eInto the Great Unknown: Grand Canyon\u003cbr\u003eAgainst the Currents: Return to Big Cañon\u003cbr\u003eA Great Innovation: Grand Ensemble\u003cbr\u003eLeave It as It Is: One of the Great Sights\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCanyon and Cosmos\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eModernism Moves On: The Populist Canyon\u003cbr\u003eDown the River and Back from the Brink: The Environmentalist Canyon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfterword: A Review from Point Sublime\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: The Grand Canyon: A Graphical Profile\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eSources and Further Readings\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen J. Pyne\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of history at Arizona State University, a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, and winner of the 1995 \u003cb\u003eLos Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Award for Arts and Letters\u003c\/b\u003e. His book \u003cb\u003eThe Ice\u003c\/b\u003e was named one of \u003cb\u003eThe New York Times Book Review's\u003c\/b\u003e 10 Best Books of the Year. His eleven groundbreaking books include the five-volume \u003cb\u003eCycle of Fire\u003c\/b\u003e. He lives in Glendale, Arizona.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304211009765,"sku":"NP9780140280562","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140280562.jpg?v=1767729343","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/how-the-canyon-became-grand-isbn-9780140280562","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}