A Mad, Crazy River: Running the Grand Canyon in 1927

Nonfiction, Travel, United States, West, History, Americas, Biography & Memoir
Cover of the book A Mad, Crazy River: Running the Grand Canyon in 1927 by Clyde L. Eddy, University of New Mexico Press in cooperation with Avanyu Publishing Inc.
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Author: Clyde L. Eddy ISBN: 9780826351562
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press in cooperation with Avanyu Publishing Inc. Publication: May 15, 2012
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press in cooperation with Avanyu Publishing Inc. Language: English
Author: Clyde L. Eddy
ISBN: 9780826351562
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press in cooperation with Avanyu Publishing Inc.
Publication: May 15, 2012
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press in cooperation with Avanyu Publishing Inc.
Language: English

When Clyde Eddy first saw the Colorado River in 1919, he vowed that he would someday travel its length. Eight years later, Eddy recruited a handful of college students to serve as crewmen and loaded them, a hobo, a mongrel dog, a bear cub, and a heavy motion picture camera into three mahogany boats and left Green River, Utah, headed for Needles, California. Forty-two days and eight hundred miles later, they were the first to successfully navigate the river during its annual high water period. This book is the original narrative of that foolhardy and thrilling adventure.


“The point of his great adventure is not to make a name for himself, or to profit from a documentary film, or even to prove that quiet men of intellect can be as courageous as brawny frontiersmen. The point is the journey itself, the satisfaction of attempting the near impossible, and of surviving to tell the tale.”--Peter Miller, National Geographic Magazine, from the Foreword

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When Clyde Eddy first saw the Colorado River in 1919, he vowed that he would someday travel its length. Eight years later, Eddy recruited a handful of college students to serve as crewmen and loaded them, a hobo, a mongrel dog, a bear cub, and a heavy motion picture camera into three mahogany boats and left Green River, Utah, headed for Needles, California. Forty-two days and eight hundred miles later, they were the first to successfully navigate the river during its annual high water period. This book is the original narrative of that foolhardy and thrilling adventure.


“The point of his great adventure is not to make a name for himself, or to profit from a documentary film, or even to prove that quiet men of intellect can be as courageous as brawny frontiersmen. The point is the journey itself, the satisfaction of attempting the near impossible, and of surviving to tell the tale.”--Peter Miller, National Geographic Magazine, from the Foreword

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