Canyon and Cosmos: Searching for Human Identity in the Grand Canyon by Lago, Don
Canyon and Cosmos: Searching for Human Identity in the Grand Canyon by Lago, Don

Canyon and Cosmos: Searching for Human Identity in the Grand Canyon

Throughout history, humans have sought creation stories to define our identity and affirm our connections with the...
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SKU: 9781647791957
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Author: Don Lago
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Canyon and Cosmos: Searching for Human Identity in the Grand Canyon by Lago, Don

Canyon and Cosmos: Searching for Human Identity in the Grand Canyon

$77.51
Canyon and Cosmos: Searching for Human Identity in the Grand Canyon by Lago, Don

Canyon and Cosmos: Searching for Human Identity in the Grand Canyon

$77.51
Author: Don Lago
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Throughout history, humans have sought creation stories to define our identity and affirm our connections with the universe, diverse life forms, and one another. Over the last two centuries, science has delivered a bold new creation story full of immense time and space, extraordinary objects, and powerful natural forces. Science ideas can seem mere abstractions, but at the Grand Canyon, better than anywhere else on Earth, our new creation story is manifested physically and powerfully.

A major work of literary nature writing, Canyon and Cosmos takes readers on a journey through the Grand Canyon's deep time, geological forces, and biological evolution, making them very real, personal, and meaningful. Through decades of hiking and kayaking, author Don Lago has gotten to know the canyon intimately. Ranging through world mythologies and Native American spirituality, he explores how humans have sought to understand the universe. He confronts existential questions of whether humans can find enough meaning in the scientific cosmos. Through poetic prose, symbolism, and philosophical insight, he shows how existence itself is our deepest source of life and meaning.

Author: Don Lago
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: 05/06/2025
Pages: 362
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781647791957

About the Author
Don Lago is one of the most respected historians of the Grand Canyon and the author of Grand Canyon: A History of a Natural Wonder and a National Park, Where the Earth Touched the Sky: The Cosmological Landscapes of the Southwest, and The Powell Expedition: New Discoveries. His literary nature writing, often with an emphasis on astronomy, has been published in prominent magazines and literary reviews.
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