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The Process of Fear
“It is a grizzly bear. Enormous, shiny brown, swaggering, dripping slime from its bared fangs. Jack, you have never seen a large animal in the wild. The sight of this grizzer is so electrifyingly strange that it gives you a … Continue reading
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Seeing the Grand Canyon Where it Is Not
In the most recent issue of Harper’s Magazine (324.1940 [January 2012]) Jeremy Miller writes about the first U.S. led expedition to the Grand Canyon in 1857 in his article “The Long Draw: On the Trail of an Artistic Mystery in … Continue reading