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River Runners of the Grand Canyon | 
 enlarge | Author: David Sievert Lavender
Publisher: Grand Canyon Association
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Sales Rank: 1476924
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 147
ISBN: 0938216236
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.913040922
EAN: 9780938216230
ASIN: 0938216236
Publication Date: September 1985
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Condition: An acceptable used ex-library copy. Library markings. Pages are somewhat worn. Cover worn with some creases. Worn edges and corners. Binding somewhat weak and cracked. Sale of this item benefits Friends of the Deming Library.
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Book Description
This author's lucid style coupled with historic photographs will put an oar in your hand as you meet the men and women who have dared to brave the most challenging whitewater in North America.
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History of an Adventure! August 6, 2008
From Front Jacket:
"'There is nothing else quite like it,' writes David Lavender, 'a deeply entrenched water corridor 280 miles long through a desert wilderness of almost overwhelming beauty. No other American river offers, in one unbroken stretch, as great an aggregation of rapids.'
When John Wesley Powell ran the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in 1869, he did not have such forewarning - nor may he have suspected how many others would follow in his wake. Taking to the river by boat has become as much a lure to adventurers as climbing a mountain 'because it's there,' and guided trips through the Canyon now test the mettle of 15,000 brave souls every year.
Today's river rats are linked to Powell by a colorful chain of individuals who braved then-unknown perils of water and rock. David Lavender has traced this history of adventure, beginning with legendary prospector James White who might even have preceded Powell through the Canyon when he was forced to flee Indians on a makeshift raft. A subsequent century of river running has seen the exploits of such individuals as Robert Brewster Stanton, who wanted to build a railroad through the Canyon's Inner Gorge and lost three men in his surveying expedition; trapper Nathaniel Galloway, who perfected a technique for running rapids - by entering a rapid with his boat stern first; the Kolb brothers, who made the first films of running the river; and Georgie White, the 'Woman of the River,' who by introducing rubber rafts ushered in the modern era of river running."
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