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There is one place on our planet where nearly two billion years of natural history are set forth in a unique and breathtaking display: the region of the Grand Canyon, 80,000 square miles of the most spectacular terrain on Earth. So vast is this geological wonder, so endlessly rich in variety and contrast, that the best efforts of countless photographers have never quite succeeded in conveying its true dimensions -- until now.… (más)
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
This book was made possible by many generous Americans who gave the author unstinting help, advice, encouragement, enthusiasm, and warm hospitality. It is to these marvellous people that this volume is dedicated.
Primeras palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Everything is connected with everything else. (introduction)
In 1754 Horace Walpole wrote a fairy story called The Three Princes of Serendip,, whose heroes "were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of," a knack that came to be called "serendipity". (preface)
There is no greater contrast on Earth than that between the Grand Canyon of the Colorado and the Beardmore Glacier of Antarctica.
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Últimas palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
I was back in the Plateau Country and my luck was in.
There is one place on our planet where nearly two billion years of natural history are set forth in a unique and breathtaking display: the region of the Grand Canyon, 80,000 square miles of the most spectacular terrain on Earth. So vast is this geological wonder, so endlessly rich in variety and contrast, that the best efforts of countless photographers have never quite succeeded in conveying its true dimensions -- until now.
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