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Running the Amazon (Vintage Departures)
Running the Amazon - Vintage Departures
Author: Joe Kane
The voyage began in the lunar terrain of the Peruvian Andes, where coca leaf is the only remedy against altitude sickness. It continued down rapids so fierce they could swallow a raft in a split second. It ended six months and 4,200 miles later, where the Amazon runs gently into the Atlantic. Joe Kane's personal account of the first expedition t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780679729020
ISBN-10: 067972902X
Publication Date: 5/12/1990
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
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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, am excited sense of the earth's ceaseless variety." - The New York Times Book Review
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