The Doing of the Thing: The Brief Brilliant Whitewater Career of Buzz Holmstrom
[The authors] are river-runners and they are fine writers. Welch's craft  is strong. River runner or not, the reader flips with Buzz at Black Bar Falls,  sits shivering at twilight on a boulder, swims the icy river, and tired and  cold, goes on.By the time Holmstrom puts his hand-built boat into Green River, we like the  young boatman. By the end of the voyage, we love him. He emerges, through  Dimock's storytelling and excerpts of Buzz' journal as a bright, hugely  conscious man, expert at carpentry, rowing, survival in hard terrain and, more  than anything, steering his journey not against the river, but with it.  If writing is, as Dimock's and Welch's skill would bear out, a river, then what  "The Doing of the Thing" accomplishes is the restoration of the flow and the  bringing to the surface of a fine human being.  --Mary Sojourner, Arizona Daily  Sun, October 9, 1998