The Grand Canyon: Between River and Rim

This is another Awesome book with astonishing pictures, along with everything you'll need to know about the wonders of THE GRAND CANYON❣️ Well done pictorial coverage and written history of an amazing natural made landscape that serves many, many species of wildlife while providing immense pleasure tours, hikes, and endless site seeing adventures for people from all walks of life visiting this natural made Wonder of the World💫♥️

This is one of the most incredibly beautiful books that I've ever purchased. Although it is primarily a book of photos, it is also beautifully-written, including the Foreword and Introduction. The book is based on a 750-mile hike from one end of the Grand Canyon to the other, often bushwhacking off trail in areas of the GC only rarely seen or photographed by a very small number of people.The author, Pete McBride, who was contracted by National Geographic Magazine to take these photos, was one of the hikers, together with Kevin Fedarko, author of "A Walk In The Park" about this hike, who began their journey in Lees Ferry, AZ, at the northeast corner of the GC and ending at the Grand Wash Cliffs at the southwest corner.Their experience was both wonderful but very dangerous as they hiked off trail, traversed cliffs following the tracks of goats and other wildlife, rappelled slot canyons and more in their continuing pursuit of water to sustain them throughout their journey.You are introduced to some of the most beautiful images of this magnificent natural wonder. I highly recommend this book, as well as Fedarko's book. If you love the outdoors, you won't be disappointed with either.

This is a companion book to A Walk in the Oark but also can stand alone. Great photography of some very remote places.

Gorgeous colored photos & history of the most spectacular places in the world & right here in the USA! Nice size & beautiful addition to our coffee table!

I've hiked hundreds of miles in the Grand Canyon below the rim, hauling lots of photography gear, but admittedly on established trails, so feel I have a tiny sense of what the author(s) accomplished, this is my favorite canyon photo book by far. Absolutely beautiful work, and love how they periodically included themselves in the images as it helps give the viewer a sense of place, and what its like to be in the remote canyons they journeyed through.

I’m just going to say WOW! If you’ve ever stood on the rim of the Grand Canyon and wondered what was hidden deep in the fabric of the place, this book is for you. That gigantic gaping hole has complexity, delicate textures, and subtilty that defies the God’s eye view from the rim. Pete McBride’s photos convey a stunningly intimate connection to a National Park so large that it can be seen from space, so deep that it bisects the entire State of Arizona with an impassible mile deep moat, and yet so fragile that it’s being destroyed by developers surrounding the place to cash in on the Worldwide brand that is the Grand Canyon. Most impressive, McBride walked the entire end-to-end length of the Grand Canyon over a 13 month period to bring these pictures home.I particularly love how the photos change seasons telling a pictorial story of erosion and time. Of course, there are photos of the Colorado River flowing through the Grand Canyon in amazing light, but I found the intimate shots of slot canyons with pools and springs to be most fascinating. The landscape in the deep backcountry is riveting, but the idea of walking through that rugged terrain is almost unimaginable. Photos of the paths they followed showed an insanely difficult journey. While the tourist area is in the middle of the National Park, the eastern and western reaches, far beyond the view of tourists on the rim, are completely different and uniquely beautiful.There are few large wild areas left in the United States. McBride’s pictures helped me understand what we are losing. We shouldn’t let development mar one of the Seven Wonders of the World. We don’t have another Grand Canyon as a replacement. McBride cut his teeth shooting for National Geographic. It shows.

This is an awesome book! It goes along with "A Walk in the Park" book. I have never been in the GC, but by reading AWINP and looking at these amazing photos, I feel like I have been there. Incredible place. I pray they can protect it and keep it the way God made it. It's a Holy place...

There is a very small number of people who have hiked from one end of the Grand Canyon to the other. Pete McBride and Kevin Fedarko started out with a few other people to do it in one trip and ended up breaking it into 5 segments. While the Grand Canyon river trip is 277 mile long (measuring down the center of the Colorado River) doing it on foot is well over 700 miles as you work your way around the side canyons, looking for water and ways up and down through the layers that make up this incredible place. Pete's written story of this trip is riveting and his photographs in most cases, just take your breath away. In some cases they are standing on the edges of cliffs, looking miles into the distance and standing someplace where it is possible that no one else has ever stood before and if anyone wants to recreate the photo it would take them 5 or 6 days of hard hiking to get back to that point. These splendid images are not your usual pretty calendar photos. There is so much to see in each photo that you can come back to this book time and time again and you will see something new each time you look at it. I bought one for myself and 2 to give as gifts and I will be giving more as gifts to my friends who love this place as much as I do. One of the purposes of this book was to show just how special this place is and how worthy of protection from outside development forces this is. I knew it was going to be a really great book but it has exceeded all my expectations in that regard. To everyone who worked on this book, who helped with the expedition, Thank you.