Cataract Canyon: A Human and Environmental History of the Rivers in Canyonlands

by Jayne Belnap, Robert H. Webb, John S. Weisheit

This ambitious book will enthrall armchair naturalists and river runners alike, offering a stunning tour through the natural, environmental, and human history of Cataract Canyon, a seventeen-mile run of free-flowing river above Lake Powell in the canyonlands of southern Utah. Setting the stage with preliminary chapters on geology, hydrology, prehistory, geography, biology, and river-running history the authors take the reader on a "downriver journey,"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874807824
• ISBN13: 9780874807820
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: University of Utah Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 9.9"