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Field notes from the Grand Canyon : raging river, quiet mind / Teresa Jordan.
- Title
- Field notes from the Grand Canyon : raging river, quiet mind / Teresa Jordan.
- Author
- Jordan, Teresa
- Publication
- Boulder, CO : Johnson Books, 2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | F788 .J67 2000 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill.; 16 x 21 cm.
- Summary
- On a writing assignment, award-winning author Teresa Jordan spent twelve days traveling down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. As has happened to so many who have visited the Grand Canyon, this intensely verbal woman found herself speechless; she was filled with awe the whole time. She had brought along a small box of watercolors and stole away from her group each day to paint an illustrated record of her experiences. The results are these field notes from a re-enchantment with the world. She believes the sketchbook was the river's gift to her; in turn she offers the sketchbook to help us find the river for ourselves. About the experience she later wrote, "I expected the canyon to astonish me. It exceeded my wildest imaginings by at least a power of ten . . . On the river I found myself drunk with visual excitement, engaged in a gluttony of looking . . . Often I would try to recall something I had seen on the river. Other times I would focus on something directly in front of me: a family of barrel cacti in the late afternoon sun, a single cube of zoroaster granite . . .trying to isolate, to understand, the purity of that particular gold of morning light on the ridge, or the muddy claret of the redwall limestone."
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Pictorial works
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 1555662552 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^00022170^
- OCLC
- 1031308663
- SCSB-12135800
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library