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The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon.In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists and veteran river runners boldly proclaimed that the motley crew would never make it out alive. But for Clover and Jotter, the expedition held a tantalizing appeal: no one had yet surveyed the plant life of the Grand Canyon, and they were determined to be the first.Through the vibrant letters and diaries of the two women, science journalist Melissa L.
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Melissa L. Sevigny grew up in Tucson, Arizona. Her nonfiction and poetry explores the intersections of science, politics, and history, with a focus on the American Southwest. She has worked as a science communicator in the fields of water policy, sustainable agriculture and planetary science. She is the winner of the 2015 Ellen Meloy Grant for Desert Writers. Learn more about her at www.melissasevigny.com
