Into the Unknown: High Adventure and Hard Lessons Exploring the World's Great, Lost Wilderness Rivers - Softcover

Michael P. Ghiglieri (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826366848 ISBN 13: 9780826366849

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, 2024

Synopsis

Veteran wilderness guide Michael P. Ghiglieri takes you into the unknown―among white-water rapids, crocodiles, hippos, gorillas, lions, and impossible waterfalls. His riveting memoir not only serves up true high adventure, it also presents the ecology, natural history, conservation (or the lack of it), and exploration history of nine far-flung wilderness regions across the globe.

Into the Unknown reveals what the natural world looks like through a professional's eyes during "adventure" travel, when things start sliding toward the edge. This insider memoir recounts ten sagas of extreme expeditions into Earth's most amazing wilderness regions to illustrate their realities, science, allure, history, risks to life and limb, and ultimate fates. Many of these regions have now vanished to "progress." Others are imperiled. Only a few are protected. But all are, or were, places where exotic beauty and danger are inseparable.

About this title

About the Author

Michael P. Ghiglieri has worked as a professional wilderness river guide for fifty years on forty rivers around the world. His books include Canyon and, with Thomas M. Myers, Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon, winner of the National Outdoor Book Award.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826366848
• ISBN 13: 9780826366849
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336