Book review: In 'Brave the Wild River,' Melissa L. Sevigny traces the true story of 2 female scientists who explored the Grand Canyon
"Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon" by Melissa L. Sevigny Long before climate change threatened the very existence of the Colorado River, two women botanists set off with a group of amateur boatmen to record the plants that lived along what was then the most dangerous river in the world.
"Two Women to Risk Lives for Science in Colorado Canyon," was the headline on one story in the Minneapolis Tribune. by signing up you agree to our terms of service But once the trip began, they focused on the task of collecting and cataloguing all the plants they came across, from beavertail and hedgehog cactuses to Thompson's wooly locoweed, a low creeping plant with fuzzy pink seed pods on purplish stems.
Along the way, there was heat, hunger and fatigue, along with"mosquitoes the size of dinner plates," wrote Sevigny. They got blisters on hands and feet, and cuts and bruises everywhere on their bodies.
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