Ann Zwinger
Auteur van Run, River, Run: A Naturalist's Journey Down One of the Great Rivers of the West
Over de Auteur
Naturalist, travel writer and artist Ann Zwinger has produced such books as The Nearsighted Naturalist, Women in the Wilderness (co-authored with her daughter, Susan), and Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River Through the Grand Canyon (which won the Western States Book Award for toon meer Creative Nonfiction). (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: Grand Canyon Field School
Werken van Ann Zwinger
Run, River, Run: A Naturalist's Journey Down One of the Great Rivers of the West (1975) 71 exemplaren
The Mysterious Lands: A Naturalist Explores the Four Great Deserts of the Southwest (1989) 60 exemplaren
A Desert Country Near the Sea: A Natural History of the Cape Region of Baja California (1983) 28 exemplaren
Colorado 3 exemplaren
Law and Order (Plateau Journal: Land and Peoples of the Colorado Plateau, Vol 4/1) (2000) 1 exemplaar
The Mysterious Lands 1 exemplaar
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- Officiƫle naam
- Zwinger, Ann Haymond
- Geboortedatum
- 1925-03-12
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Muncie, Indiana, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Muncie, Indiana, USA
Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA - Opleiding
- Wellesley College (BA|Art History|1946)
Indiana University (MA|Art History|1950) - Beroepen
- natural history writer
- Organisaties
- Colorado Nature Conservancy (member emeritus)
The Orion Society (director)
John Burroughs Association - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award (1991)
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- 16
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- 4
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- 537
- Populariteit
- #46,380
- Waardering
- 4.1
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- 1
- ISBNs
- 37
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- 1
- Favoriet
- 4
Another pleasing point to Downcanyon was the addition of quotes from other explorers before each chapter. It's as if Zwinger is giving a nod to those who went down the Colorado with far less in every sense. Less equipment, less experience, less education. Those who went before were more daring, more adventurous, and without a doubt, put themselves in far more danger. Downcanyon is the exploration of the Colorado River for Zwinger and Zwinger alone.… (meer)