Running the Amazon / by Joe Kane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kane, Joe (Joseph A.), 1953-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Vintage departures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kane, Joe (Joseph A.), 1953-.

Travel.

Amazon River--Description and travel.

Amazon River.

Kane, Joe (Joseph A.), 1953---Travel--Amazon River.

Kane, Joe.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xii, 277 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First Vintage departures edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, 1990.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Map of the Amazon River

1. High country

1. The Pacific

2. The Colca

3. Headwaters

4. The upper Apurimac

5. The Black Canyon

6. Trail's end

2. White water

7. Meeting the Great Speaker

8. The Acobamba Abyss

9. The middle Apurimac

10. The lower Apurimac (the red zone)

11. The Ene

12. The Tambo

3. The river sea

13. The upper Ucayali

14. The lower Ucayali

15. The Marañón

16. The Solimões

17. The Amazon

18. The Pará

19. The Atlantic

Afterword to the Vintage Edition.

Notes:

"Originally published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf Inc., in 1989"--Title page verso.

Other Format:

Online version: Kane, Joe (Joseph A.), 1953- Running the Amazon.

ISBN:

067972902X

9780679729020

OCLC:

20758783

Online:

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