6/21/2023 0 Comments Downcanyon by Ann ZwingerBetween are the delights of spring in side canyons, the benediction of rain on a summer beach, and the chill that comes off limestone walls in November. Zwinger's book begins with a bald eagle count at Nankoweap Creek in January and ends with a subzero, snowy walk out of the canyon at winter solstice. From the thrill of running the rapids to the wonder in a grain of sand, her words take the reader down 280 miles of the "ever-flowing, energetic, whooping and hollering, galloping" river. In all seasons and all weathers, in almost every kind of craft that goes down the waves, she returned to the Grand Canyon again and again to explore, look, and listen. Teamed with scientists and other volunteer naturalists, Zwinger was part of an ongoing study of change along the Colorado. Ann Zwinger's is that of a naturalist, an "observer at the river's brim." Every writer comes to the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon with a unique point of view.
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