The GCRG Online Library and Bookstore

Here you will find titles of books we have enjoyed and/or written.   We hope that you find something suitable for stashing in your ammo can for the next trip!

There's This River... By Christa Sadler

There's This River... Grand Canyon Boatman Stories is back in print and now available. Originally published in 1994, There’s This River has become an indispensable addition to any library for those interested in the Grand Canyon, the Colorado River, or just plain great storytelling. This book is entirely a product of the Grand Canyon guiding community, and the expanded second edition includes all the original stories and artwork, and updates the collection with twelve new pieces and many new photographs, drawings and paintings. 

You’ll read about the fastest rowing trip through the canyon on the high water of 1983, and about Eleanor, who found a strength she never knew she had. From heroism in flash floods and rescues in rapids, to encounters with bighorn sheep and red-tailed hawks, this collection ranges from hilarious to bittersweet. These stories will have you laughing and crying, laughing again—and ready to head downstream…

There’s This River… Grand Canyon Boatman Stories
ISBN 0-9776983-0-0
Paperback; 6 x 9 inches; 264 pages
More than 30 illustrations, including 24 color plates;
$17.95 plus shipping and handling (Arizona residents add 8.126% sales tax)

HIKING ARIZONAS GEOLOGY. By Ivo Lucchitta

41 trails scattered throughout the state are described. For each, logistical details are given, then a section describing the landscape and general geology of the area the trail goes through. Finally, the Trail Guide tells you how to get to the trailhead, as well as a detailed description of what scenic and geologic features you will find along it.

At the beginning of the book is a section called "The art of Geology", which is a brief primer on geology for the layperson. This is intended to help the user make sense of what is seen along the trails. This is followed by a brief account of the geologic history of Arizona, called "The making of Arizona", and divided into three sections corresponding to the great geologic provinces of the state: Colorado Plateau, Arizona Transition Zone, Basin and Range Province.

Two trails within the Grand Canyon (Tanner and South Kaibab) are among the 41 trails described, which means the geology of the Grand Canyon is treated in some detail.

Glen Canyon: Images of a Lost World is a stunning photographic memoir and the work of one of the West's finest nature photographers. Featuring 164 duotone plates, journal writings, and the photographer's recollections today of a world that lives again in these exceptional images.

While millions of people view the Grand Canyon from the rim each year, only a handful float theColorado River in small wooden dories, run the roughest rapids in North America and explore the many beautiful side canyons accessible only from the river. In The Hidden Canyon: A River Journey, photographer John Blaustein and journal-keeper Edward Abbey take an intimate look at this natural wonder.

Biography of America's great river runner, Buzz Holmstrom: the first to run the Green and Colorado Rivers alone in 1937. Born in the coastal logging communities of coastal Oregon, Holmstrom built his own wooden boats and soloed several of the country's great whitewater rivers. He died mysteriously on the Grande Ronde River at age 37.

"An engaging chronicle of a little-known group of pioneers." -- Publisher's Weekly

"The book transcends gender even as it addresses it, and thereby joins the dozen or so books about the Grand Canyon that belong in every river runner's library." -- Paddler Magazine

"A thoroughly enjoyable read." -- Books of the Southwest

Photographer Kathleen Jo Ryan first witnessed the awe-inspiring spectacle of the Grand Canyon in 1987. A year later she rafted the Colorado River into the canyon, emerging from this transforming experience with the idea for a book: "Going down the river into the heart of the canyon is adventuring into a place of spirit. I hold a warm, overwhelming feeling of gratitude, respect, and humility for having been allowed to float and play through this majestic canyon." In Writing Down the River Ryan shares her gratitude by inviting women writers to venture down the Colorado and contribute their "personal journeys." Gretel Ehrlich provides context--historical, geographic, and
biographical--in the foreword, and 15 other writers join the celebration with their individual voices.

The author recounts the successes and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. "No library of western/southwestern materials can be without this book. . . ."-- Books of the Southwest.