Don't go near the edge without this keepsake guide to Grand Canyon's South Rim! Dazzling color and historic photos and engaging fact-filled text detail 22 must-see stops along the South Rim. Visit historic Hermits Rest, breathtaking Hopi Point, ancient Tusayan Ruin and many other viewpoints and buildings with this book in hand. Includes four comprehensive maps and a nature guide.
Here are the twenty-two best spots from which to enjoy the Grand Canyon and the human stories associated with them. Look backward in time and outward at timeless vistas. 150 scenic and historic photographs and four comprehensive maps make this a useful guide and a treasured keepsake of your visit.
This book is the 2002 winner of the National Park Service Cooperating Association Interpretive Media Award!
Grand Canyon Conservancy is the official nonprofit partner of Grand Canyon National Park.
Michael F. Anderson earned his doctoral degree in history form Northern Arizona University in 1999. He has been a researcher and writer of canyon history since 1990, a teacher and guide for the Grand Canyon Conservancy Field Institute since 1993, and Grand Canyon National Park's cultural resource specialist and historian from 2001 through 2007.