Into the Unknown: High Adventure and Hard Lessons Exploring the World's Great, Lost Wilderness Rivers - Couverture souple

Ghiglieri, Michael P.

 
9780826366849: Into the Unknown: High Adventure and Hard Lessons Exploring the World's Great, Lost Wilderness Rivers
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ISBN 10 : 0826366848 ISBN 13 : 9780826366849
Editeur : UNM Press, 2024

Synopsis

Veteran wilderness guide Michael P. Ghiglieri takes you into the unknown—among white-water rapids, crocodiles, hippos, gorillas, lions, and impossible waterfalls. His riveting memoir not only serves up true high adventure, it also presents the ecology, natural history, conservation (or the lack of it), and exploration history of nine far-flung wilderness regions across the globe—including the never-to-be-repeated white-water run on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon during the Bureau of Reclamation’s 1983 super flood of ninety-seven thousand cubic feet per second; the first summit-to-sea descent of the Alas River exploring Sumatra’s new Gunung Leuser National Park, a last redoubt for wild orangutans and other rare species; and the “impossible” run of the Alsek River from the Yukon to Alaska in the world’s largest international conservation area.

Into the Unknown reveals what the natural world looks like through a professional’s eyes during “adventure” travel, when things start sliding toward the edge. This insider memoir recounts ten sagas of extreme expeditions into Earth’s most amazing wilderness regions to illustrate their realities, science, allure, history, risks to life and limb, and ultimate fates. Many of these regions have now vanished to “progress.” Others are imperiled. Only a few are protected. But all are, or were, places where exotic beauty and danger are inseparable.

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À propos de l?auteur

Michael P. Ghiglieri has worked as a professional wilderness river guide for fifty years on forty rivers around the world. His books include Canyon and, with Thomas M. Myers, Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon, winner of the National Outdoor Book Award.

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Éditeur
UNM Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0826366848
ISBN 13 
9780826366849
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
336
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV
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