After securing a grant from the University of Michigan,botanists Elzada Clover&Lois Jotter,accompanied by a group of men,embarked on a boat trip down the Green and Colorado rivers to document the plant life of the Grand Canyon.It‘s 1938&the women are permanently reminded that the rivers are not a “place for women”.They will prove their critics “badly mistaken”.Sevigny chronicles their adventures,the plant&wildlife&human impact on the environment.