The Last Canyon: A Novel Mass Market Paperback They remind him of the

They remind him of the beast he is inside

and men—venture from the peaceful Shire into the dark lands of Mordor

In the twilight between sleep and consciousness

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The Last Canyon: A Novel Mass Market Paperback They remind him of theBoth gritty and sublime (Seattle Times), The Last Canyon tells the story of John Wesley Powells 1869 voyage of exploration through the Grand Canyon, the last great expedition of discovery in United States history. In this vivid novel, John Vernon intertwines two stories that of Powell and his crew, and that of a band of Paiute Indians, known as the Shivwits, who lived on the north rim of the canyon. As the novel moves inexorably toward a violent