Comrades on the Colca: A Race for Adventure and Incan Treasure in One of the World's Last Unexplored Canyons - Couverture souple

Buchanan, Eugene

 
9781942280354: Comrades on the Colca: A Race for Adventure and Incan Treasure in One of the World's Last Unexplored Canyons
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1942280351 ISBN 13 : 9781942280354
Editeur : Bower House, 2016

Synopsis

A modern-day, real life adventure, this book will take readers along for a rollicking ride through South America on a race to the bottom of the Earth.

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À propos de l'auteur

A former reporter for the Denver Business Journal and 14-year editor-in-chief of Paddler magazine, Eugene Buchanan has written about the outdoors for more than 25 years, from covering the X Games for ESPN.com to working for NBC at the Beijing Olympics. A Business/Economics graduate of Colorado College, where he captained his NCAA lacrosse team, the former ski patrol, kayak instructor and sea kayak and raft guide also enjoys a successful freelance career, with articles published in the New York Times, Men's Journal, Sports Afield, Outside, National Geographic Adventure, Adventure Journal, Skiing, Ski, Powder, Backcountry, 5280, Bike, Mountain Bike and other publications.

A member of New York's prestigious Explorer's Club, he is also the founder of Paddling Life (www.paddlinglife.net), and a Contributing Editor for Powder and Canoe & Kayak magazines.

An avid adventurer with several first descents to his credit, Buchanan's passion for traveling, writing and paddling has taken him to more than 30 countries on six of the seven continents, from Australia and Africa to South America and Siberia. A contributor to Men's Journal's The Great Lifeanthology, his first stand-alone book, Brothers on the Bashkaus, was released by Fulcrum Publishing in 2008. His second book, Outdoor Parents, Outdoor Kids, a winner of the Living Now Book Awards, was released by Heliconia Press in 2010, and his third book, Comrades on the Colca, will be published by Conumdrum Press in spring 2016. He lives with his wife, Denise, and two daughters, Brooke, 16, and Casey, 13, in Steamboat Springs, Colo., just a block away from the Yampa River.

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Éditeur
Bower House
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1942280351
ISBN 13 
9781942280354
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
254
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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