The riveting tale of two pioneering botani sts and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the G rand Canyon. In the summer of 1938\, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jott er set off to run the Colorado River\, accompanied by an ambitious and ent repreneurial expedition leader\, a zoologist\, and two amateur boatmen. Wi th its churning waters and treacherous boulders\, the Colorado was famed a s the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists and veteran river run ners boldly proclaimed that the motley crew would never make it out alive. But for Clover and Jotter\, the expedition held a tantalizing appeal: no one had yet surveyed the plant life of the Grand Canyon\, and they were de termined to be the first. Through the vibrant letters and diaries of the t wo women\, science journalist Melissa L. Sevigny traces their daring forty -three-day journey down the river\, during which they meticulously catalog ed the thorny plants that thrived in the Grand Canyon's secret nooks and c rannies. Along the way\, they chased a runaway boat\, ran the river's most fearsome rapids\, and turned the harshest critic of female river runners into an ally. Clover and Jotter's plant list\, including four new cactus s pecies\, would one day become vital for efforts to protect and restore the river ecosystem. \;
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