A Field Guide to the Grand Canyon 2nd Edition

Not great for the bottom of the Canyon!

Perfect for anyone who wants to hike and ID plants, animals & birds along the way. The plates offer great color and descriptions. Great field book for novice or expert.

Great guide to the natural history and animals & plants of the Canyon. It is quite detailed. I was looking primarily for plant & animal identification to take hiking, but once at the Canyon, I ended up really enjoying reading about the rock types & history. Since I was backpacking, I ended up not taking it into the Canyon due to weight--it is dense for a book of it's size, but still found it helpful.

Get deeper into The Grand Canyon and Colorado Plateau with this introductory guide. It features just enough information and depth without getting overwhelming.

I've used this book many times over the years and taken on several GC rafting trips. It is very concise and complete, accurate and interesting. Easy to read and use in the field. A must have book for any Grand Canyon library.

Update: Bumped to 3 stars after I got my color-screened Android tablet. The illustrations are now (mostly) legible but still pretty lame for a field guide.I wanted to save weight on my hike to Phantom ranch so I bought this guide for my Kindle. Don't bother. Field guides need illustrations. This edition is a cheesy digitization of the dead-tree book filled with illustrations which were originally a) much larger; and b) printed in color. On my 7" b/w kindle, they were near useless.

I bought this book before my raft trip down the Grand Canyon. This was good background material so I could understand what I was seeing better. It was good to understand more than just the geology

Good