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1) The emerald mile: the epic story of the fastest ride in history though the heart of the Grand Canyon
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The epic story of the fastest boat ride in history, through the heart of the Grand Canyon on the Colorado river. In the winter of 1983, the largest El Niño event on record — a chain of “superstorms” that swept in from the Pacific Ocean — battered the entire West. That spring, a massive snowmelt sent runoff racing down the Colorado River toward the Glen Canyon Dam, a 710-foot-high wall of concrete that sat at the head of the most iconic landscape...
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Fretwater Press
Pub. Date
c2007
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x, 456 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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English
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Bert Loper, the Grand Old Man of the Colorado, was born the day Major Powell discovered the confluence of the San Juan and Colorado in 1869. He died just days after the first motorboat had passed through Grand Canyon. He knew every river runner in between, and by the time of his death at 80 years old, had run more of the Colorado than anyone. But it was never easy--orphaned an abused, Loper had to make his way along the bottom of society, often as...
Publisher
This Earth Press
Pub. Date
c2006
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xxii, 216 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 23 cm.
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English
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An anthology of stories and artwork produced entirely by the river guiding community of Grand Canyon. Often hilarious, sometimes bittersweet and always entertaining, these true tales tell the stories of a landscape, a lifestyle and a unique community.
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Fretwater Press
Pub. Date
1998
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xi, 290 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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English
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Biography of America's great river runner, Buzz Holmstrom: the first to run the Green and Colorado Rivers alone in 1937. Born in the coastal logging communities of coastal Oregon, Holmstrom built his own wooden boats and soloed several of the country's great whitewater rivers. He died mysteriously on the Grande Ronde River at age 37.
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
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1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Based on a story by Ernest Hemingway in which a charter boat operator gets mixed up with a woman and French resistance fighters in WWII. Includes a special making-of featurette.
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