A mad, crazy river
Subtitle: running the Grand Canyon in 1927
By: Clyde Eddy
Publisher: Avanyu Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780826351555; 9780826351562
Subjects: Description and travel; Discovery and exploration
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.
Notes: "Originally published in hardcover as Down the World's Most Dangerous River by Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1929."