Great Chasm
Reyner Banham, 2 July 1981
Corridors of Time
by Ron Redfern and Carl Sagan.
Orbis, 198 pp., £25, March 1981,0 85613 316 7 Show More
by Ron Redfern and Carl Sagan.
Orbis, 198 pp., £25, March 1981,
“... The Great Chasm of the Colorado’, as awe-struck admirers of the Sublime used to call it, is one of the unquestioned show-pieces of North American geology. The word ‘show-piece’ seems appropriate because the Grand Canyon, to give it the name canonised by the advertising of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, is a kind of permanent media-event whose skilful presentation to the viewing public is almost as important as the substance of its topography ... ”