The Colorado River: Chasing Water

The Colorado River: Chasing Water - Hardcover

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The Colorado River: Chasing Water

The Colorado River: Chasing Water - Hardcover

by Pete McBride
$60.00
Sale price  $60.00 Regular price 

Book Overview

by Pete McBride (Author), Nick Paumgarten (Foreword by), Kevin Fedarko (Introduction by)

2024 National Outdoor Book Award Winner

Ten Best Photography Books of 2024, Smithsonian Magazine

In Association with Grand Canyon Conservancy and National Audubon Society.

Through photography and essays, this book is a celebration of one of America's most valuable and iconic rivers and a warning demonstrating the river is a bellwether of overuse and climate change.

America's Western water crisis is now newsworthy on a global level, and the Colorado River is in the crosshairs. The Colorado River is the most comprehensive look at this challenged resource that supplies drinking water to forty million Americans and supports five percent of the country's GDP.

While acclaimed photographer Pete McBride has covered water worldwide and been dubbed a "freshwater hero" by National Geographic, he now brings us home to his deepest passion: saving his backyard river, the Colorado. For two decades, McBride has documented the Colorado River, from source to sea and always with a camera in hand.

Through McBride's photography and his own words, as well as essays on climate change and river overuse, we witness the stark reality of our water crisis but also the remarkable beauty and resilience of this ephemeral source of life.

Author Biography

Native Coloradan Pete McBride is a Sony Artisan of Light and has traveled on assignment to more than seventy-five countries for the National Geographic Society, Smithsonian, Google, and the Nature Conservancy. He has spoken on stages for TEDx, the World Economic Forum, Pixar, Nat Geo Live, and more. His books The Grand Canyon: Between River and Rim and Seeing Silence both won a National Outdoor Book Award.

Nick Paumgarten is an environmentalist and has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 2005.

Kevin Fedarko works as a part-time river guide in Grand Canyon National Park. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Emerald Mile.
Number of Pages: 224
Dimensions: 1 x 10.6 x 13.2 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: March 26, 2024
ISBN9780847899746
Author Pete McBride
PublisherRizzoli International Publications
GenreHobbies & interests, Arts, and Travel
FormatHardcover
PublishedMarch 2024
LanguageENG- English
Pages224
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Pete McBride

Pete McBride is an award-winning photographer, filmmaker, writer, and speaker known for his powerful storytelling at the intersection of adventure and environmental conservation. Raised in Colorado, McBride has spent over two decades documenting remote corners of the globe, from the peaks of the Himalayas to the depths of the Grand Canyon.A National Geographic Explorer, Adventurer of the Year, and Sony Artisan of Imagery, McBride has worked in more than 75 countries, combining his skills in photojournalism and filmmaking to spotlight pressing environmental issues, particularly those involving water scarcity, wilderness protection, and climate change.His 750-mile trek through the length of the Grand Canyon became the basis for the Emmy-nominated documentary Into the Canyon and his celebrated book The Grand Canyon: Between River and Rim, which won a National Outdoor Book Award.His later books, Seeing Silence and Chasing Water, also won national book awards, and his photography and writing have appeared in National Geographic, Outside, Smithsonian, and the New York Times, among others. He is a frequent speaker at global conferences and conservation events.

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