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  • Title The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
  • Author Kevin Fedarko
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Scribner Book Company, New York, NY
  • Date 2014-07-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781439159866 / 1439159866
  • Weight 0.86 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.51 x 5.52 x 1.14 in (21.62 x 14.02 x 2.90 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1980's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
  • Library of Congress subjects Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.), Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012474432
  • Dewey Decimal Code 797.122

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  • Outside, 02/01/2015, Page 46

About the author

Kevin Fedarko has spent the past twenty years writing about conservation, exploration, and the Grand Canyon. He has been a staff writer at Time magazine, where he worked primarily on the foreign affairs desk, and a senior editor at Outside, where he covered outdoor adventure. His writing has appeared in National Geographic, the New York Times, and Esquire, among other publications. His first book, The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon, which won a National Outdoor Book Award and the Reading the West Book Award, was a New York Times bestseller. He lives in Flagstaff, Arizona.
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Scribner, 2014. Softcover. Very Good. 5x1x8. A short tear to dustjacket. 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. Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award.
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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.
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