We see that javascript is disabled or not supported by your browser - javascript is needed for important actions on the site. Read more

What's New - Home - Login

Member $avings: $81,600,860.59 | Books Available: 784,365 | Members Online: 320

Swap Used Books - Buy New Books at Great Prices!

How To Swap Books Sign Up Search submenu

PBS Market (New Books)

Gift Buying Guide

Book Browser Advanced Search Books Posted Today Member Book Reviews Award Winning Books NYT Best Sellers Amazon Best Sellers Most Traveled Copies Club Wish List

Discussion Forums Book Lists

Club Lists My Book Lists My Watched Lists Create a List

Blog Donations

School Donation Program In Memory of... Military Donation Program Friends of PBS

Box-O-Books Maps The Eclectic Pen Fun Stuff

20 Questions Sudoku Bookmark Creator

Top 100

Requests Posts Swappers Referrers Reviewers

Pulse of PBS Spread The Word

Invite Friends Bookmarks Facebook Page Facebook App More Ways...

Photo Gallery Recipes Club Tag Cloud Member Testimonials

Help Center submenu

How To Swap Books Browse Help Docs Ask the Librarian PBS Member Icons Live Help

Kiosk

PBS Market (New Books) Go Shopping Buy Credits Buy PBS Money Upgrade Membership Gift Certificates Transfer Credits

Need Help?

Search - Listen, Bright Angel

Listen Bright Angel
Author: Edwin Corle

By EDWIN CORLE Duell, Sloan and Pearce New York Copyright, 1946, by Edwin Corle All rights reserve including the right to re-produce this lyook or portions thereof in any form. First edition To Horace W. Armstrong . . . and if this expedition has any right to success or sur vival, then listen to a scientists prayer, O Bright Angel of Im mortalit... more »y. . . . Contents I. CENTRAL CHARACTER 1. An Island in Time 3 2. Tonto Sea 6 3. Life 11 4. A Canyon Is Bom 16 II. MORE OR LESS HEROES 1. Theres Something About a Soldier 25 2. The Little Man and the Big Cross 45 3. Escalante and Dominguez 59 4. Lieutenant Ives Is Not Amused 75 5. Life at Lees Ferry 92 IIL ROW YOUR BOAT 1. Ashley 108 2. Powell 113 3. Brown-Stanton , 128 4. The Amazing Kolb Brothers 137 5. Eddy 152 6. A Bride and Groom 162 7. White 173 8. Tweedledum and Tweedledee 182 vii CONTENTS IV. SOUTH RIM 1. Oh, Yes, Ive Seen the Grand Canyon 191 2. Those Who Came Before 197 3. And Those Who Came Later 206 4. Trail-Wise and Trail-Weary 216 5. A Hundred Million Customers 230 V. LAND OF THE SKY BLUE WATER 1. Where Nothing Ever Happens 242 2. Sunday in Havasu Falls 249 3. Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go with Friday on Saturday Night 257 4. One Mind in Indian Time 264 VL NORTH RIM 1. Kaibab Country 279 2. Thunder River and Toroweap 290 3. The Dirty Devil and the Bright Angel 300 INDEX 304 viii I Central Character SOUTH RIM TO NORTH RtU ABOUT TEN MILES a t j o o re UJ a. oe Ul cu DEVONIAN NU x UJ o JH uJ 1 KAIBAB LIMESTONE COCONINO SANDSTONE, UPAl FORMATION. SANDSTONES, LIMESTONES 7 AND SHALES , , JHE RED WALL 1 tLlMESTONE LIMESTONE flRljSHY ANGEL SHALE 1 ,, THE TONTO GROUP t V I i . TAPEATS SANDSTONE ARCHAEAN ERA G lSSES, SCHISTS, 6RANITES ROCKS ON EARTH SCHEMATIC CROSS SECTION OF THE GRAND CANYON FROM SOUTH RIM TO RIVER AT GRAND CANYON VILLAGE LOOKING WEST, DEPTHS OF VARIOUS STRATA ARE APPROXIMATE FIGURES. An Island in Time T, HE world was in a fine state nobody was on earth. And it was a lucky thing they werent, for if they had they would have been cooked to the condition of a sizzling steak in something less than one second. In fact the figure is inept. On the centigrade scale water boils at one hundred degrees. The temperature of the surface of the earth was about six thousand degrees centigrade. A siz zling steak would have been ice-cold by comparison, and could not have existed for one second. Even such heat-resistant elements as platinum and carbon were not only melted, but they were in a state of gaseous nebulae. The world was a ball of hot gas, and hot is not the word for it. Its temperature was the result of sub-atomic energy from the interior which reached the amazing value of twenty million degrees. It is beyond comprehension. If the electric heater in your bath room could be stepped up to this level it would instantly set fire to anything and everything within a radius of many thousand miles. The reason for all this was that the earth had just been born. Because of the gravitational pull of a passing star it had been wrenched and torn from the body of its mother, the sun. It was made up entirely of sun-stuff. This was three billion years ago. If there is one thing that the earth has always had in abun . LISTEN, BRIGHT ANGEL dance, that thing is time. If time is money, the earth is a pluto cratat least, from the point of view of little man. But when the first crust formed and the ball of hot gas had passed through a state of liquefaction to solidity, living things had not yet appeared. All this was the preparatory stage the first billion years were the hardestand the earth, painfully and slowly, was getting ready to produce life. The crust deepened until the outer surface had a depth of forty miles and the internal heat, slowly diminishing, was sealed in the interior. This was the Archeozoic era, geologi cally speaking, and while much of the surface was covered with water, the oldest known rocks were formed and re formed and folded and tilted and fused...

ISBN-13: 9781406731309
ISBN-10: 1406731307
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 320
Rating:

0 stars, based on 0 rating

Publisher: Plaat Press
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 0
Reviews: Amazon | Write a Review

Back to the Top ↑

Search - Listen, Bright Angel

Loading...