Thorndike Press large print nonfiction series

Prologue -- Part I: Wild country. Into the abyss ; The man who walked through time ; Hell with the lid off -- Part II: The witchery of whitewater. The Jackass chronicles ; The emerald cannonball ; "Kind of a crazy idea" ; The real deal -- Part III: You can't fix stupid. Fricking grand ; A shortcut ; Who are these clowns? ; Happy trails -- Part IV: The shakedown. Dirty business ; The godfather of Grand Canyon hiking ; Rock bottom ; Snakebit -- Part V: Rebooting. Acts of contrition ; Back again, wiser? ; The greater unknown ; Where water comes together -- Part VI: The sudden poetry of springs. The return of the hiking king ; Gems ; The woman in the white deerskin dress -- Part VII: In the house of tumbled stones. The great thumb ; The storm ; Beneath the eyes of the owl ; Casa de piatra -- Part VIII: Beneath the ramparts of time. The godscape ; Drenched in wonder ; Olo ; In Sinyella's shadow ; The people of the blue-green water -- Part IX: Boneland and bedrock. All in ; Ghosts of a former world ; Smelling the barn ; Badlands ; Rock bottom, again -- Part X: Lost and found. Hard days ahead ; "The combat zone" ; Evensong ; Unfinished business ; Pilgrims all -- Epilogue

"A few years after quitting his job to become a whitewater guide on the Colorado River, Kevin Fedarko was approached by his best friend, National Geographic photographer Pete McBride, with a vision to embark on an end-to-end traverse of the Grand Canyon--a journey that McBride promised, would be 'a walk in the park'. The ensuing ordeal revealed a place that was deeper, richer, and far more complex than anything the two men had imagined. A singular portrait of a sublime place, A Walk in the Park is a deeply moving plea for the preservation of America's greatest treasure"--