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Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"In 10 thrilling real-life adventure stories, pioneering whitewater explorer Wick Walker examines what lured a generation of incredibly daring pioneers into some of Earth's most wondrous yet forbidding river canyons: below Victoria Falls on the Zambezi, the Great Bend of the Tsangpo in Tibet, Tiger Leaping Gorge on the Yangtze, the flanks of Mount Everest, and more Loaded with great moments and personal stories, Wick details what these adventurers...
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
"In this collection of essays, Page Stegner threads together natural history, conservation polemic, ecology, and wilderness adventures on a number of the West's major white-water rivers. With twenty-five years of rafting behind him, Stegner moves effortlessly from his own experiences on the Colorado, Yampa, Green, San Juan, Dolores, and Missouri rivers to first explorations by historical figures like Lewis and Clark and John Wesley Powell, to modern...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Ex-Marine Gabe Ryder is fulfilling the last request of his best friend, Rob, who was killed in a firefight during their final days of service. He promised to help Robâs familyâ especially Robâs twin sister, Aliciaâwith their struggling river rafting business. Gabe has a hidden past with Alicia, though. Sheâs the woman who taught him that love might exist, yet he walked away from her.Alicia has more than enough on her plate...
66) River Wild
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Joey fears there could be trouble ahead after her brother Gray invites Trevor, a childhood friend with a troubled past, on their whitewater rafting adventure with two tourists. Once they become stranded in raging rapids, the thrill-seeking trip quickly turns from exciting to utterly terrifying as the rafters are trapped in a desperate fight for their lives, all while someone seems intent on sabotaging to ensure shocking secrets stay buried. To survive...
67) The river wild
Pub. Date
[1995]
Description
A woman's skills and courage are put to the ultimate test when an encounter with three mysterious strangers turns her family's white water rafting trip into a living hell.
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Cutting between 1978 footage of his fellow Colorado River whitewater river guides - who lived a communal, often naked, live-in-the-moment existence - and the complex realities of their adulthood today. This piece travels the road from peyote to Prozac, creating a compelling portrait of cultural metamorphosis, as he revisits the friends who have come through the other side of their youth and into adulthood.
69) The river wild
Pub. Date
1998
Description
A woman's skills and courage are put to the ultimate test when an encounter with three mysterious strangers turns her family's white water rafting trip into a living hell.
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Secret of the Andes: "A young girl who is always in trouble travels to Argentina with her archeologist father"--Container.
Hollywood safari: "An animal-training family loses their lion who is then blamed for the actions of a wild look-alike"--Container.
Lassie: the painted hills: "After Jonathan Harvey strikes gold, he goes with his new partner to sort out his findings and leaves his collie Shep to care for the orphaned son of his former partner"--Container.
River's...