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Walker, Wickliffe W., author.
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Extreme sports.
Rafting (Sports)
Indus River.
Blue Nile River Valley (Ethiopia and Sudan)
Dudh Kosi River (Nepal)
Kali River (India and Nepal)
Orinoco River Delta (Venezuela)
Colca River Valley (Arequipa, Peru)
Zambezi River.
Yangtze River (China)
Stikine River (B.C. and Alaska)
Tsangpo Gorges (China)
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Torrents as yet unkn...
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Torrents as yet unknown : daring whitewater ventures into the world's great river gorges / Wickliffe W. Walker.
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Walker, Wickliffe W., author.
Lebanon, New Hampshire : Steerforth Press, [2023]
Subjects
Extreme sports.
Rafting (Sports)
Indus River.
Blue Nile River Valley (Ethiopia and Sudan)
Dudh Kosi River (Nepal)
Kali River (India and Nepal)
Orinoco River Delta (Venezuela)
Colca River Valley (Arequipa, Peru)
Zambezi River.
Yangtze River (China)
Stikine River (B.C. and Alaska)
Tsangpo Gorges (China)
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9781586423728 (hardcover) :
158642372X (hardcover)
Description:
xiv, 207 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Contents:
Preface -- Paradise on the big screen:the Indus River -- To get away from England: the inn, Colorado, and Blue Nile Rivers -- To dare: the Dudh Kosi River -- Mother of rivers: the Kali Gandaki River -- Meteoric decade: the Dudh Kosi, Orinoco, and Braldu Rivers -- Catholicism and communism in earth's grandest cathedral: the Colca River -- Smoke that thunders: the Zambezi River -- Tiger leaping: the Yangtze River -- Hardest thing in the purest style: the Stikine River -- As yet unknown: the Yarlung Tsangpo River -- Acknowledgments -- Selected references -- About the author.
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"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 found there, and within themselves. The extraordinary characters, driven by different motives and visions, but united by their compulsion to seek the unknown and the pulse of free-flowing water, are as remarkable as the daunting geography and conditions they confront. Whitewater sport today stands side-by-side with mountaineering in participation and public attention, yet it has lagged in generating its own literature. Torrents As Yet Unknown will help fill that gap for readers interested in human drama played out against great natural challenges. Mountaineering history is deep and its literature rich, but whitewater adventurers approach and experience the same forbidding terrain from a different vantage, between the steep walls of their canyons and atop powerful torrents of cascading water" -- Amazon.com.
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Hawaii Kai Public Library
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797.121 Wa
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