The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko
From one of Outside magazine's Literary All-Stars comes the thrilling true tale of the fastest boat ride ever, down the entire length of the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon, during the legendary flood of 1983.In the spring of 1983, massive flooding along the length of the Colorado River confronted a team of engineers at the Glen Canyon Dam with an unprecedented emergency that may have resulted in the most catastrophic dam failure in history. In the midst of this crisis, the decision to launch a small wooden dory named the Emerald Mile at the head of the Grand Canyon, just fifteen miles downstream from the Glen Canyon Dam, seemed not just odd but downright suicidal.The Emerald Mile, at one time slated to be destroyed, was rescued and brought back to life by Kenton Grua, the man at the oars, who intended to use this flood as a kind of hydraulic sling-shot. The goal was to nail the all-time record for the fastest boat ever propelled--by oar, by motor, or by the grace of God himself--down the entire length of the Colorado River from Lee's Ferry to Lake Mead. Did he survive? Just barely. Now, this remarkable, epic feat unfolds here, in The Emerald Mile.Kevin Fedarko is a part-time river guide in Grand Canyon National Park who resides in northern New Mexico. Fedarko's writing has appeared in Esquire, National Geographic Adventure, and other journals, in addition to his travel narratives in Outside, where he worked as a senior editor, and has been anthologized in The Best American Travel Writing in 2004 and 2006. Fedarko worked as a staff writer at Time magazine from 1991 until 1997, when he won an Overseas Press Club Award for a report about Yitzhak Rabin's killing. Fedarko graduated from Oxford with a Master of Philosophy in Russian history in 1990.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781439159859 |
| ISBN 10 | 1439159858 |
| Title | The Emerald Mile |
| Author | Kevin Fedarko |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Scribner Book Company |
| Year published | 2013-05-07 |
| Number of pages | 432 |
| Prizes | Winner of Reading the West (Nonfiction) 2013, Winner of National Outdoor Book Awards (History/Biography) 2013 |
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