num_pages: 290
description: A story about rivers and wooden boats, about heroes, humility, unbearable beauty, solitude, and death. Holmstrom's is the tale of a man's lone struggle in a difficult and changing world.
language: English
title: The Doing of the Thing : The Brief Brilliant Whitewater Career of Buzz Holstrom
titlecomplete: The Doing of the Thing : The Brief Brilliant Whitewater Career of Buzz Holstrom
genres: History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 82
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY)
category: Biography (Finalist)
publisher: Fretwater Pr