The Hidden Canyon: A River Journey
                                 Photographs                                       A Journal
                             JOHN BLAUSTEIN                             EDWARD ABBEY




         Plate 17: North Canyon                                                                 












 Plate 81: Dory at Mile 162
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:: The Hidden Canyon :  A River Journey
“Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the Colorado is the soul of the desert.
Brave boatmen come, they go, they die, the voyage flows on forever. We are all canyoneers. We are
all passengers on this little living mossy ship, this delicate dory sailing round the sun that humans
call the earth.”

“Joy, shipmates, joy.”
11¾” x 9¾”, 144 pages, 107 color photographs, river map.

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Text © Edward Abbey
Available through Chronicle Books, ISBN 0811822613
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:: Ashes and Snow   
“In exploring the shared language and poetic sensibilities of all animals, I am working
towards rediscovering the common ground that once existed when people lived in
harmony with animals.  The images depict a world that is without beginning or end, here
or there, past or present.”

- Gregory Colbert, Founder of the Ashes and Snow Exhibit -
Click here for a full review of the Ashes and
Snow exhibit, now touring in Asia.  
While millions of people visit the Grand Canyon each year, relatively few of them are lucky
enough to float through it on the Colorado River. This amazing journey is the subject of “The
Hidden Canyon,” a landmark portrait of the Grand Canyon experienced at river level, and now
revised, updated, and including more than two dozen new photographs. In over one hundred
remarkable images, photographer and former river guide John Blaustein captures the awe-
inspiring beauty of the canyon and the excitement of running some of  the wildest  rapids in
North America. The  accompanying  journal  kept  throughout  the trip by  wilderness  hero  
Edward  Abbey offers a lyrical and humorous description of the action (excerpt on following
page) as a group of dories (small wooden rowboats) alternately  floats  and  charges   through  
spectacular canyon  landscapes, sculpted  rock formations, and  tons  of  rushing  white  water.