River Odyssey: A Story of the Colorado Plateau

by Gerald N. Callahan

River Odyssey is a collection of essays and poems, but it is one story - an intimate story about human time and the Colorado Plateau. This is a story about time alone and time on foot in the American West. It is about the land, and the river, and people. There are tales of tree frogs and boat burnings, Anasazi ruins and unforgiving canyons, rivers and ravens, cheating at cards and raising children. And it is a story about the Colorado River - Lake Powell, the San Rafael Swell, Grand Canyon, Green River, Moab, and Mexico. Above all else, this is a story of seven years of hiking the Colorado Plateau and how it changed one man when he couldn't change himself.

177 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1998