Demon river Apurímac
Subtitle: the first navigation of upper Amazon canyons
By: J. Calvin Giddings.
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Salt Lake City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Giddings, J. Calvin 1930- -- Travel -- Peru -- Apurímac River.; Kayaking -- Peru -- Apurímac River.; Indians of South America -- Peru -- Apurímac River Region.; Apurímac River (Peru) -- Description and travel.
Description: "Well-written, first-person account of the author's 1970s kayaking adventure through the Apurimac River gorge, from near its source above 4000 m to the jungle far below. Interspersed are descriptive accounts of the still little known canyon and its indigenous inhabitants"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.