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"Report writing, like motor-car driving and love-making, is one of those activities which almost every Englishman thinks he can do well without instruction. The results are of course usually abominable."
- Tom Margerison,
'A Random Walk in Science' compiled by R. L. Weber,
edited by E. Mendoza
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ZIN Product Number: 10085899
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage Books
ISBN: 0375701826
Release Date: Jan 4, 1984
| |  | | | In Brief
"Fletcher recounts his attempt to traverse the Colorado River from itssource in the mountains of Wyoming to the Gulf of California. . . . {The} author also offers some personal history and reflections on topics ranging from religion to environmentalism." (Libr J)
| | | | From The Publisher
From its Green River source in Wyoming to its black conclusion in Mexico's Gulf of California, the 1,700-mile Colorado is America's second-longest river and the one with the most beautiful vistas. For Fletcher this was an opportunity to perform aesthetic and emotional geology on the landscape (and on himself), and to treat the reader to a host of dramatic, moving and hilarious experiences. We see sandhill cranes and great blue herons; we experience many miles of whitewater challenges that stretch Fletcher's rafting capabilities to the limit; we float through stupendous canyons and open desert, pass mountains and abandoned villages; we flyfish for rainbow trout. We meet the people who live along the river, other adventurers, tourists. We wake up every morning to fresh views and the rewards of wilderness solitude. And finally we come to know this feisty curmudgeon who in his late sixties achieved the journey of a lifetime.
| | | | Annotation
The backpacking guru and consummate observer of nature whose previous treks through the American West are recounted in The Man Who Walked Through Time and The Thousand-Mile Summer--now takes readers on a 1,700-mile, six-month journey down the entire length of America's second longest river, the Colorado. 41 photos. 15 maps.
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| | | | | | The Reader's Catalog
The backpacking guru tells of the story of his six-month foot-and-raft voyage, alone, down all 1,700 miles of America's second-longest river--the Colorado; includes Olympic-class rapids, epic thunderstorms, and encroaching desert
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