River Runners' Guide to Utah and Adjacent Areas

River Runners' Guide to Utah and Adjacent Areas

Author: Gary C. Nichols

Publisher:

Published: 1986-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780874807257

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A fully revised and updated edition of Gary Nichols' widely used guide to river running in Utah, with information about alterations in waterways and changes in access points.


World Whitewater

World Whitewater

Author: Jim Cassady

Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13:

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This is an international guide to the legendary rivers of the world. It gives the reader all the information needed to plan an expedition, including maps of 50 rivers with photographs, mile-by-mile descriptions of major rivers and personal stories from boaters who have been there.


THE RIVER RUNNER

THE RIVER RUNNER

Author: Allan Ishmael Young

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015-09-23

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1329576217

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My name is Jake Tama. Well, Captain Jacob Ezekiel Tama, if you want to get formal. I'm a riverboat captain, and I have been around rivers all my life. Oh, I did spend some time on the ocean in the Navy. Then sixteen years as a policeman-homicide, mostly. But even then I drove boats. Then I bought my own excursion boat, and the business was good. And that is where my problem started -- crime, murders, mostly. Everywhere I go something happens to get me drawn into resolving a mystery, even worse than when I was a cop. I was even accused of committing murder. Then I was almost a victim. And yes, I've had a few romances along the way. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Just read the book!


A Mad, Crazy River

A Mad, Crazy River

Author: Clyde L. Eddy

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 2012-05-15

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 0826351565

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When Clyde Eddy first saw the Colorado River in 1919, he vowed that he would someday travel its length. Eight years later, Eddy recruited a handful of college students to serve as crewmen and loaded them, a hobo, a mongrel dog, a bear cub, and a heavy motion picture camera into three mahogany boats and left Green River, Utah, headed for Needles, California. Forty-two days and eight hundred miles later, they were the first to successfully navigate the river during its annual high water period. This book is the original narrative of that foolhardy and thrilling adventure. “The point of his great adventure is not to make a name for himself, or to profit from a documentary film, or even to prove that quiet men of intellect can be as courageous as brawny frontiersmen. The point is the journey itself, the satisfaction of attempting the near impossible, and of surviving to tell the tale.”--Peter Miller, National Geographic Magazine, from the Foreword


The Last River

The Last River

Author: Todd Balf

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 9780609606254

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A chronicle of a kayak team's quest to make the first descent through the dangerous Tsangpo Gorge describes how the four expert members of the team took on an adventure that ended in tragedy.


The Emerald Mile

The Emerald Mile

Author: Kevin Fedarko

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-07

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 1439159866

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The epic story of the fastest boat ride in history, on a hand-built dory named the "Emerald Mile," through the heart of the Grand Canyon on the Colorado river.


Breaking Into the Current

Breaking Into the Current

Author: Louise Teal

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2016-12-15

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 0816536937

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In 1973, Marilyn Sayre gave up her job as a computer programmer and became the first woman in twenty years to run a commercial boat through the Grand Canyon. Georgie White had been the first, back in the 1950s, but it took time before other women broke into guiding passengers down the Colorado River. This book profiles eleven of the first full-season Grand Canyon boatwomen, weaving together their various experiences in their own words. Breaking Into the Current is a story of romance between women and a place. Each woman tells a part of every Canyon boatwoman's story: when Marilyn Sayre talks about leaving the Canyon, when Ellen Tibbets speaks of crew camaraderie, or when Martha Clark recalls the thrill of white water, each tells how all were involved in the same romance. All the boatwomen have stories to tell of how they first came to the Canyon and why they stayed. Some speak of how they balanced their passion for being in the Canyon against the frustration of working in a traditionally male-oriented occupation, where today women account for about fifteen percent of the Canyon's commercial river guides. As river guides in love with the Canyon and their work, these women have followed their hearts. "I've done a lot," says Becca Lawton, "but there's been nothing like holding those oars in my hands and putting my boat exactly where I wanted it. Nothing."


The River Road

The River Road

Author: Dennis Barker

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-05-23

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9781533191885

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THE RIVER ROAD is an evocative novel of becoming a runner in 1972. Filled with compelling stories of runners, running, history, the 1972 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials and the Munich Olympics, it brings to life an era in which the U.S. competed for gold in nearly every distance running event. As many of the sport's icons dominate their events in Eugene and prepare for Munich, fifteen-year-old Lenny prepares for his first season of varsity cross country. Inspired by Jim Ryun, Frank Shorter and Steve Prefontaine, Lenny also learns that Olympic distance runners have come from Minnesota and trained on the same River Road on which he runs. A world of running lore that he never knew existed is opened to him and helps him begin to explore and realize his own ability to run.