Robert Fulghum

For the last couple of years, Fulghum has been traveling the world--from Seattle to the Moab Desert to Crete--looking for a few fellow travelers interested in thinking along with him as he delights in the unexpected. Here is an armchair tour of everyday life as seen by one of America's great essayists, a man who has two feet planted firmly on the earth, one eye on the heavens and, at times, a tongue planted firmly in his cheek.--From publisher description....

Looks at the geologic history of the Grand Canyon. Staring with a continent unlike current North American and progressing through a variety of climates and situations the rock layers chronicle deposition and erosion for over a billion years.