CHASING WATER BY PETE MCBRIDE LOCAL BOOK LAUNCH AND SIGNING

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The Colorado River: Chasing Water

Author Pete McBride, Foreword by Nick Paumgarten, Introduction by Kevin Fedarko
In Association with Grand Canyon Conservancy and National Audubon Society.

About The Book

Through photography and essays, this book is a celebration of one of America’s most valuable and iconic rivers and a warning demonstrating the river is a bellwether of overuse and climate change.

America’s Western water crisis is now newsworthy on a global level, and the Colorado River is in the crosshairs. The Colorado River is the most comprehensive look at this challenged resource that supplies drinking water to forty million Americans and supports five percent of the country’s GDP.

While acclaimed photographer Pete McBride has covered water worldwide and been dubbed a “freshwater hero” by National Geographic, he now brings us home to his deepest passion: saving his backyard river, the Colorado. For two decades, McBride has documented the Colorado River, from source to sea and always with a camera in hand.

Through McBride’s photography and his own words, as well as essays on climate change and river overuse, we witness the stark reality of our water crisis but also the remarkable beauty and resilience of this ephemeral source of life.


About Pete McBride

Native Coloradan Pete McBride has spent two decades studying the world with a camera. An award-winning photographer, filmmaker, writer, and public speaker, he is a Sony Artisan of Light and has traveled on assignment to more than 75 countries for the National Geographic Society, Smithsonian, Outside, Google, USAID and many others. He has spoken on stages for TEDx, The World Economic Forum, Pixar, Nat Geo Live, and more. His feature documentary, Into the Canyon, was nominated for an Emmy in 2020, and his books The Grand Canyon: Between River and Rim and Seeing Silence both won National Outdoor Book

Awards. His latest book The Colorado River: Chasing Water (Rizzoli 2024) celebrates one of America’s most iconic rivers and warns against overuse and climate change.