The Colorado: A River at Risk Photography Art Coffee Table Book

Jim Richardson and Jim Carrier have hiked Raft and flown over almost every mile of its course. Here they have expanded upon their story for National Geographic magazine to present an elegant and revealing modern journey down the Colorado. Their pilgrimage reveals the multiple diversions and heavy demand that have resulted in the river no longer reaching its historic terminus in the Gulf. Winding its way for 1450 miles through the most majestic of America's Western lands, the Colorado River remains the most intriguing of the nations waterways. It has carved A glorious path that is born in pristine high mountain meadows and include concludes in Mexico and the Gulf of California. Along the way and over the years of political battleground has churned like the river itself as the water-starved West scrambles for the Colorados life-giving flow. Its waters are quested for agricultural, for cities. For luxury developments, for industry, and most visibly, for recreation. Every drop of water is wanted more than once in used more than once. But almost above the turmoil, the rivers, power, and grandeur attracts people from all over the world to examine in amazement. Its channel cutting across the American West. That beauty, the way the water is being used today, and the varied formulas for the river's future have been brought together in this book by a photographer and a writer who has explored the Colorado over the past 10 years. Photography: Jim Richardson and Text by Jim Carrier