Synopsis
The story of a team of ten men and one woman who travelled the full length of the Amazon river, from its source high in the Andes to its union with the Atlantic Ocean.
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"Running the Amazon is old-fashioned travel writing, where accreditation is gained in courses of misery....Kane...has created a moving diorama, an excited sense of the earth's ceaseless variety." -- The New York Times Book Review
About the Author
Joe Kane's "Phantom of the Movies" columns and reviews have appeared in the New York Daily News. He also publishes The Phantom of the Movies' VideoScope: The Ultimate Genre-Video Guide magazine, read by movie lovers and industry insiders alike. He lives in New York City.
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Running the Amazon (Adventure Library)
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Adventure Library January 1995, 1995
ISBN 10: 1885283024
ISBN 13: 9781885283023
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Running the Amazon (Adventure Library)
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RUNNING THE AMAZON.
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ISBN 13: 9781885283023
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Condition: FINE. First thus. The author's first book (originally published by Knopf 1989) a firsthand account of the 1985 Amazon Source to Sea Expedition - the only expedition to travel the entire 4,200 mile length of the Amazon from its origins high in the Peruvian Andes to the Atlantic Ocean. Kane, an award winning environmental reporter was the only American to travel the full distance. INSCRIBED on the title endpaper "For. Best of luck on all your adventures" and dated in 1995. This edition includes a new introduction by Alex Shoumatoff, and a new afterword by the author. Maps, photographs. xvii, 321 pp. Fine in pale green illustrated boards, over a gray cloth spine. Seller Inventory # 83786
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