Dieses Buch verfolgt die Abenteuer der Entdecker Richard Bangs und Christian Kallen, während sie Flüsse in Nord- und Südamerika, Afrika, Asien und Australien hinunterfließen und Flüsse mit Farbverläufen auswählen, die für weißes Wasser sorgen. Auf dem Weg kombinierten sie körperliche Herausforderung mit anthropologischen und ökologischen Untersuchungen. Bangs und Kallen begegneten versteckten afrikanischen Stämmen, beobachteten peruanische Zeremonien, die die Inkas verehrten, und entdeckten für sich, dass der Indus noch nur teilweise schiffbar ist.
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The authors are commercial rafting guides who have tested the most challenging stretches of remote wild rivers around the world. This book brings together their accounts of rafting such exotic waterways as the Apurimac and Bio-Bio of South America, the Zambezi and Omo of Africa, the Indus of Asia, and the Colorado and Tatshenshini of North America. The text is substantial, with historical surveys of each river in addition to accounts of hungry crocodiles, grizzly bears, and tipping over. The photos are striking. They show as much of the people who live along these rivers as they do of brightly colored inflatable rafts. With rafting very much in vogue, this should be popular in public libraries. Harold Otness, Southern Oregon State Coll. Lib., Ashland
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.
The lure of river-rafting has taken Bangs and Kallen across hundreds of miles of waterways. Here they describe their breathtaking explorations of such rivers as the Omo in Ethiopia, the Zambezi (Zambia), the Coruh (Turkey), the Indus (Pakistan), the Apurimac (Peru), the Colorado (Arizona) and the Tatshenshini (Alaska/Yukon). They relate adventuresfellow travelers lost in the rapids, a crocodile that tried to make a meal of their inflatable raftand memorable events and sightsnatives befriended along the way, the beauty of the mountains towering above them and fleeting glimpses of birds among the dense foliage. Bangs amd Kallen narrate myths and legends and discuss the cultures that have evolved around these rivers. Photos. 30,000 ad/promo; first serial to Islands Magazine; Macmillan Natural Science Book Club main selection. October
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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