02884cam a2200385 i 4500 884838783 TxAuBib 20230727120000.0 230502s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2023016812 9780393868234 HRD 30.00 0393868230 HRD 30.00 TxAuBib rda Sevigny, Melissa L., 1986-, author. Brave the wild river [BOOK] : the untold story of two women who mapped the botany of the Grand Canyon / Melissa L Sevigny. First edition. New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023] 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-280) and index. In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists and veteran river runners boldly proclaimed that the motley crew would never make it out alive. But for Clover and Jotter, the expedition held a tantalizing appeal: no one had yet surveyed the plant life of the Grand Canyon, and they were determined to be the first. Through the vibrant letters and diaries of the two women, science journalist Melissa L. Sevigny traces their daring forty-three-day journey down the river, during which they meticulously cataloged the thorny plants that thrived in the Grand Canyon’s secret nooks and crannies. Along the way, they chased a runaway boat, ran the river’s most fearsome rapids, and turned the harshest critic of female river runners into an ally. Clover and Jotter’s plant list, including four new cactus species, would one day become vital for efforts to protect and restore the river ecosystem. Provided by publisher. 20230727. Jotter Cutter, Lois 1914-2013 Travel Arizona Grand Canyon. Clover, Elzada U 1897-1980 Travel Arizona Grand Canyon. Nevills, Norman D 1908-1949 Travel Arizona Grand Canyon. Nevills Expedition 1938. Botany Arizona Grand Canyon History 20th century. Plant collecting Arizona Grand Canyon History 20th century. Scientific expeditions Arizona Grand Canyon History 20th century. Botanists Arizona Grand Canyon Biography. Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) Discovery and exploration. Grand Canyon (Ariz) Description and travel.