Running the Amazon Paperback - 1990
by Joe Kane
In the tradition of Kon-Tiki, a great adventure story--the riveting account of the first expedition to travel the full length of the Amazon by kayak. First time in paperback. Illustrated.
From the jacket flap
The voyage began in the lunar terrain of the Peruvian Andes, where coca leaf is the only remedy against altitude sickness. It continued down rapids so fierce they could swallow a raft in a split second. It ended six months and 4,200 miles later, where the Amazon runs gently into the Atlantic. Joe Kane's personal account of the first expedition to travel the entirety of the world's longest river is a riveting adventure in the tradition of Joseph Conrad, filled with death-defying encounters: with narco-traffickers and Sendero Luminoso guerrillas and nature at its most unforgiving. Not least of all, Running the Amazon shows a polyglot group of urbanized travelers confronting their wilder selves -- their fear and egotism, selflessness and courage.
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- Title Running the Amazon
- Author Joe Kane
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1990-05-12
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Maps
- ISBN 9780679729020 / 067972902X
- Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
- Dimensions 8.03 x 5.25 x 0.68 in (20.40 x 13.34 x 1.73 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Latin America
- Library of Congress subjects Amazon River - Description and travel, Kane, Joe - Travel - Amazon River
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 89040610
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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- Outside, 04/01/2010, Page 28
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