Canyon and Cosmos: Searching for Human Identity in the Grand Canyon

This book ＂takes readers on a journey through the Grand Canyon’s deep time, geological forces, and biological evolution, making them very real, personal, and meaningful. Ranging through world mythologies and Native American spirituality, Don Lago explores how humans have sought to understand the universe. He confronts existential questions of whether humans can find enough meaning in the scientific cosmos. Through poetic prose, symbolism, and philosophical insight, he shows how existence itself is our deepest source of life and meaning＂--

Don Lago is one of the most respected historians of the Grand Canyon and the author of Grand Canyon: A History of a Natural Wonder and a National Park, Where the Earth Touched the Sky: The Cosmological Landscapes of the Southwest, and The Powell Expedition: New Discoveries. His literary nature writing, often with an emphasis on astronomy, has been published in prominent magazines and literary reviews.