GRAND CANYON TREKS. A GUIDE TO THE INNER CANYON ROUTES

8vo. 72p. Foreword by Walt Wheelock. Illustrated with 11 full-page black and white captioned photos and three full-page black and whit maps. References and Index. Photo pictorial yellow wrappers printed in red and with a thumbnail black and white photo of the author on the rear wrapper. Just touches of where to the extremities, wrappers very lightly soiled, slight hints of rubbing along the spine, corners square and flat, all photos and maps in fine condition, else near fine to fine with no internal markings. " Doctor Harvey Buchart, mathematics professor at Northern Arizona University, has the reputation of being the man who really knows the inner Grand Canyon undoubtedly because he is the only man who has walked, scrambled and climbed all of these remote recesses. During his twenty five years at the University, he has spent much of his free time in the Canyon and has guided many others into his beloved gorge. Harvey Buchart has traveled the maintained trails, the abandoned routes, the burro and sheep tracks - as well as the ones the very burros have given up. In addition he has put up routes through the breaks and notches and along the ridges that have never been trekked before. Harvey writes in a most tight fashion, yet bits of history and folklore are interlaced all through the text. Here is the result of almost a lifetime of exploration - you will need another to trace them out." [from the rear wrapper] A "must have" For anyone hiking in the Grand Canyon. NOTE: This is the true first edition published in 1970. …