The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon

Kevin Fedarko (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

448 Seiten

2014
Scribner (Verlag)
978-1-4391-5986-6 (ISBN)

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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.

From one of Outside magazine's "Literary All-Stars" comes the thrilling true tale of the fastest boat ride ever, down the entire length of the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon, during the legendary flood of 1983. In the spring of 198

Kevin Fedarko lives in northern New Mexico and works as a part-time river guide in Grand Canyon National Park. In addition to his travel narratives in Outside, where he worked as a senior editor, Fedarko's work has appeared in Esquire, National Geographic Adventure, and other publications, and has been anthologized in The Best American Travel Writing in 2004 and 2006. Fedarko was a staff writer at Time magazine from 1991 to 1997, where his work helped garner an Overseas Press Club Award for a story on the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Fedarko earned a Masters of Philosophy in Russian history at Oxford in 1990.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.7.2014
Zusatzinfo	Maps; Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	390 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Segeln / Tauchen / Wassersport
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4391-5986-6 / 1439159866
ISBN-13	978-1-4391-5986-6 / 9781439159866
Zustand	Neuware