GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK
Oceans of Time
Stewart Aitchison
32 pages with 30 color images. 9”x9”
Translations are available in French, German, Japanese, and Korean.
ISBN 0-939365-52-9 (English Edition)
$5.95
ISBN 0-939365-73-1 (German Edition)
$7.95
ISBN 0-939365-74-X (French Edition)
$7.95
ISBN 0-939365-75-8 (Japanese Edition)
$7.95
ISBN 0-939365-76-6 (Korean Edition)
$7.95

Our Grand Canyon Pocket Portfolio^© Book provides in-depth information on the human, natural, and geologic histories of the Park as well as spectacular color photography.

I wake gasping for breath and suddenly remember where I am sleeping—on a sandstone ledge jutting out over the thousand-foot-deep Inner Gorge of the Grand Canyon. I can hear the roar of the Colorado River far below, but it’s too dark to see the tumultuous flow in the black abyss. I was dreaming that I was drowning at the bottom of a shallow sea. Only a bad dream, or was it? I close my eyes, but sleep eludes me. The ground seems harder and lumpier now. Trace fossils—the trails, burrows, and imprints of extinct creatures—underlie my bed. Some 550 million years ago marine tubeworms burrowed where my pillow now rests. Under my back, trilobites, one of the earliest of all animals to possess eyes, plowed through the soft sea floor ooze forming long, curvaceous, double-lobed ridges. And perhaps a primitive jellyfish left the four-inch round depression that cups my right hip. Fortunately, the Cambrian ocean has retreated and I’m not under water but more that a half-mile above the present sea level.

My mind drifts on this long vanished sea back to the first time I witnessed this awesome place called the Grand Canyon. Like millions of other tourists, my family came to the South Rim to see for themselves what all the fuss was about. As we pulled into the Mather Point parking lot, the surface of the earth suddenly dropped away and a breath-taking, yet unreal, view lay at our feet. The earth’s very skin had been torn asunder, raw and exposed. The abrupt escarpment and the overwhelming expanse silenced all idle chatter. We slowly walked to the edge, clutched the guard rail, and peered in. And when we spoke only reverent whispers came out...

—From “Oceans of Time” by Stewart Aitchison

Oceans of Time
Stewart Aitchison
32 pages with 30 color images. 9”x9”
Translations are available in French, German, Japanese, and Korean.
ISBN 0-939365-52-9 (English Edition)
$5.95
ISBN 0-939365-73-1 (German Edition)
$7.95
ISBN 0-939365-74-X (French Edition)
$7.95
ISBN 0-939365-75-8 (Japanese Edition)
$7.95
ISBN 0-939365-76-6 (Korean Edition)
$7.95

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