I'm three-fourths through "A Walk In the Park" and highly recommend it also. I'm about to start a multiday self-supported race that begins at the Grand Canyon (g2gltra.com), and his writing has inspired me to journal in the coming week about the landscape—to try to describe the land's shapes and colors and feelings as he does so phenomenally well. Before I started Fedarko's book (and BTW we should also recommend his earlier amazing book about river runners on the Colorado through the Grand Canyon, "The Emerald Mile"), I read another Grand Canyon book that is, dare I say, equally mind-blowing and inspiring. It's "Brave the Wild River" by Melissa Sevigny, and it's historic nonfiction about two female botanists who rafted the whole length of the GC in 1938 for the sake of science, and all the challenges and sexism they faced along the way. Truly badass!
I'm three-fourths through "A Walk In the Park" and highly recommend it also. I'm about to start a multiday self-supported race that begins at the Grand Canyon (g2gltra.com), and his writing has inspired me to journal in the coming week about the landscape—to try to describe the land's shapes and colors and feelings as he does so phenomenally well. Before I started Fedarko's book (and BTW we should also recommend his earlier amazing book about river runners on the Colorado through the Grand Canyon, "The Emerald Mile"), I read another Grand Canyon book that is, dare I say, equally mind-blowing and inspiring. It's "Brave the Wild River" by Melissa Sevigny, and it's historic nonfiction about two female botanists who rafted the whole length of the GC in 1938 for the sake of science, and all the challenges and sexism they faced along the way. Truly badass!