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High Wide And Handsome The River Journals of Norman D. Nevills / edited by Roy Webb ; with a foreword by Brad Dimock.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nevills, Norman D., 1908-1949.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nevills, Norman D--Diaries.
- Rivers--West (U.S.).
- Rivers.
- White-water canoeing--West (U.S.).
- White-water canoeing.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- When he started taking paying passengers by boat through the rapids of the Colorado River's canyons, Norman Nevills invented whitewater tourism and the commercial river business. For twelve years, from 1938 until his death in a plane crash in 1949, he safely took, without a single life lost, friends, explorers, and customers down the Colorado, Green, San Juan, Salmon, and Snake Rivers in boats he designed. National media found him and his adventures irresistible and turned him into the personification of river running. Logging seven trips through the Grand Canyon when no one else had c
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Cataract and Grand Canyons, June 20 to August 1, 1938; Green River through the Grand Canyon, June 17 to August 22, 1940; Grand Canyon, July 14 to August 5, 1941; Grand Canyon, July 12 to August 7, 1942; Salmon River, July 11 to August 3, 1946; Snake River, August 4 to August 17, 1946; Green River, June 16 to July 5, 1947; Grand Canyon, July 10 to August 5, 1947; Grand Canyon, July 11 to August 5, 1948; Green River, June 19 to July 3, 1949; Grand Canyon, July 12 to July 31, 1949; Coda, Monday, September 19, 1949; A Note On The Sources; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613283368
- 9781283283366
- 1283283360
- 9780874215083
- 0874215080
- OCLC:
- 476039895
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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