Book description
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
Adventurer and editor Clyde L. Eddy (1889-1954) is also the author of
Voyaging Down the Thames: An Intimate Account of a Voyage 200 Miles
Across England
(1938).
