A River Runner's Guide to the History of the Grand Canyon
Title | A River Runner's Guide to the History of the Grand Canyon PDF eBook |
Author | Kim Crumbo |
Publisher | |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Kim Crumbo, a river ranger at Grand Canyon National Park, has written a guide to the rich human history of the river and its canyon. Every rapid and other point of interest is discussed and clearly marked.
THE RIVER RUNNER
Title | THE RIVER RUNNER PDF eBook |
Author | Allan Ishmael Young |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 279 |
Release | 2015-09-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1329576217 |
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!
River Running
Title | River Running PDF eBook |
Author | Verne Huser |
Publisher | The Mountaineers Books |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 9780898867015 |
A guide to white-water boating, with information on rivers in the United States and Canada, equipment, various types of inflatable craft, the routine of an expedition, and safety and emergency procedures.
River Runner
Title | River Runner PDF eBook |
Author | Thayer Walker |
Publisher | Monoray |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2022-04-07 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781913183851 |
A Mad, Crazy River
Title | A Mad, Crazy River PDF eBook |
Author | Clyde L. Eddy |
Publisher | UNM Press |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2012-05-15 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 0826351565 |
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
River Runners' Guide to Utah and Adjacent Areas
Title | River Runners' Guide to Utah and Adjacent Areas PDF eBook |
Author | Gary C. Nichols |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1986-04 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 9780874807257 |
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.
Breaking Into the Current
Title | Breaking Into the Current PDF eBook |
Author | Louise Teal |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2016-12-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0816536937 |
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."