In the Footsteps of John Wesley Powell: An Album of Comparative Photographs of the Green and Colorado Rivers, 1871-72 and...
- ISBN-10
- 1555660258
- ISBN-13
- 9781555660253
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 286
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1987
- Authors
- John Wesley Powell, Hal G. Stephens, Eugene Merle Shoemaker
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