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Hiking the Grand Canyon: A Sierra Club Totebook by: John Annerino List Price: $16.95 City Travel Guides Price: $11.53 You Save: $5.42 (32%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 917.9132 EAN: 9781578051502 ISBN: 1578051509 Label: Sierra Club Books Manufacturer: Sierra Club Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 344 Publication Date: March 01, 2006 Publisher: Sierra Club Books Studio: Sierra Club Books Sales Rank: 338335 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: Fully revised and updated, the third edition of this celebrated Sierra Club Totebook® is an information-packed guide to America’s best-known national park—destination of more than four and a half million visitors annually. Hiking the Grand Canyon provides detailed, authoritative descriptions of more than one hundred of the best trails—from easy, level day hikes along the Canyon’s North and South Rims, to rigorous but rewarding rim-to-river treks and trans-canyon expeditions. Author and seasoned Grand Canyon adventurer John Annerino offers invaluable information to help visitors plan their trips, ensure their safety and comfort, and enhance their enjoyment of the Grand Canyon’s natural wonders—including sage advice on hiking equipment and technique, clothing and food requirements, and map selection; vital information on water sources and on climate and weather; and tips on lodging and camping, as well as on how to book guided hiking, rafting, and muleback or horseback trips. The book also features chapters on the park’s natural history and geology and on its Native American history. For first-time visitors as well as adventurers familiar with the Canyon’s many attractions, this is the most user-friendly and comprehensive guide to one of our nation’s premier natural wonders. Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - A Cross Between a Trail Guide and a ???I was disappointed by this book. Mr. Annerino seems to be trying to impress us with his knowledge far too often and is long-winded most of the time. I much prefer authors who try to inform instead of impress, especially in a book that is basically a how-to-hike-in-the-Grand-Canyon book. For example: "... the Tonto Trail is the major east-west camino through the Grand Canyon." Now many, maybe even most, people who live in the parts of the US with a Spanish influence know that camino is Spanish for road. But how about other English speakers around the world? Or another example: "Assuming that the Colorado River isn't rumbling along at 30,000 cfs or more, you can follow the left-hand (south) side of the ... Read More: Rating:  - Hiking the Grand Canyon is an indispensible trail guide"John Annerino's Hiking The Grand Canyon is an indispensable trail guide." - Jay Merritt, Conde Naste Traveler "Wherever you go in the canyon, you're likely to be treading in the footsteps of John Annerino... Hiking The Grand Canyon is an exhaustive guide. - Mark Kirby, National Geographic Adventure "Canyon Pioneers. Like Harvey Butchart, John Annerino has spent a fair bit of time exploring and writing about the Grand Canyon. Hiking The Grand Canyon is the AAA Triptik, a canyoneering primer." - Nancy Schute, Outside Magazine "Hiking the Grand Canyon is easily the most comprehensive guide to trails and routes in the Grand Canyon." Read More: Rating: - stay awayI bought this book expecting a well thought out and detailed description of the trails with smaller maps and recommendations on what best to see inside the canyon. I was wrong. It is a bunch of pretentious writing with details that will do no one any good. If you want to know who climbed what peak inside the park and when this is your book. If you want to know about the trails look somewhere else. Rating: - ONE of the guides that works for the Grand CanyonThis guide seems to have excited a lot of controversy. And I can understand why. John Annerino's guide to the Grand Canyon is just as individualistic as all his other books. Mr. Annerino is a rough-and-ready writer, something of a non-fiction Jack Kerouac of the Southwest and the Borderlands. His literary principle is enthusiasm for his subject. And when his subject is a complex but highly organized entity like the Grand Canyon system, the book winds up structured in a way some of his other books don't. What you can't miss is his knowledge of this canyon. I found this book an excellent update, if only partial, of the Naturalist's Guide to Hiking the Grand Canyon by Stewart Aitchison. He covers more trails than other, more current guides, ... Read More: Rating: - Very InfomativeJohn Annerino gives his readers an abundance of information about the trails and geology of the Grand Canyon. My husband and I especially like the compact size of the book - great for tossing in a daypack while hiking the canyon. |
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