Run, River, Run: A Naturalist’s Journey Down One of the Great Rivers of the American West

Description

Author: Zwinger, Ann (1925-2014)

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Pub Date: 1984

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears.  Lower front cover corner has an approx. 1″ bend.   Lower rear cover edge has an approx. 4″ crease, beginning at verso edge and ending about in the lower middle of the cover.  Smudging to bottom text block.  Some edge and corner wear.

Notes: The “Great River” is not the Colorado or the Rio Grande, as you might expect, but the Green River, a major (if not THE major) Colorado tributary.   The river rises in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming, through the upper northeast corner of Utah into Colorado and back into Utah to its confluence with the Colorado.  “This is a book about a much larger river, the Green River, and how it relates to the landscape and how it goes and what it shows of rock and wind, how people have used it and how it has used people.  Still wild in many reaches, it is a magnificent river.  To me, it is the most beautiful river anywhere.” (From the Introduction).  Illustrations by the author.  This book awarded the John Burroughs Memorial Association Gold Medal in 1976.  “And if you get lost, come on home to Green River.” (Creedence)