River: One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea - Hardcover

Fletcher, Colin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394574214 ISBN 13: 9780394574219

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997

Synopsis

he backpacking guru and consummate observer of nature whose previous treks through the American West are recounted in The Man Who Walked Through Time and The Thousand-Mile Summer--now takes readers on a 1,700-mile, six-month journey down the entire length of America's second longest river, the Colorado. 41 photos. 15 maps.

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Review:

Colin Fletcher, the author of the Grand Canyon classic The Man Who Walked Through Time, adds to his life list of desert voyages with a trip down the 1,700-mile-long Colorado River. From its sources in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming to its union with the Gulf of California, Fletcher traces the Colorado in an entertaining and often quite funny travelogue. More seriously, he ponders his own life's passage, musing on lost loves, the experience of war, the onset of old age, and impending mortality. Despite the title, other travelers have made this journey--devotees of the Colorado will know the writings of John Wesley Powell and the Kolb brothers, among others. That notwithstanding, Fletcher makes keen observations of the area's geology and wildlife, and of human behavior.

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12 1.5-hour cassettes

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0394574214
• ISBN 13: 9780394574219
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400