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Into the Unknown
High Adventure and Hard Lessons Exploring the World's Great, Lost Wilderness Rivers
Paperback | 15 September 2024
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Veteran wilderness guide Michael P. Ghiglieri takes you into the unknown--among white-water rapids, crocodiles, hippos, gorillas, lions, and impossible waterfalls. His riveting memoir not only serves up true high adventure, it also presents the ecology, natural history, conservation (or the lack of it), and exploration history of nine far-flung wilderness regions across the globe--including the never-to-be-repeated white-water run on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon during the Bureau of Reclamation's 1983 super flood of ninety-seven thousand cubic feet per second; the first summit-to-sea descent of the Alas River exploring Sumatra's new Gunung Leuser National Park, a last redoubt for wild orangutans and other rare species; and the "impossible" run of the Alsek River from the Yukon to Alaska in the world's largest international conservation area.
Into the Unknown reveals what the natural world looks like through a professional's eyes during "adventure" travel, when things start sliding toward the edge. This insider memoir recounts ten sagas of extreme expeditions into Earth's most amazing wilderness regions to illustrate their realities, science, allure, history, risks to life and limb, and ultimate fates. Many of these regions have now vanished to "progress." Others are imperiled. Only a few are protected. But all are, or were, places where exotic beauty and danger are inseparable.
Industry Reviews
"Michael Ghiglieri has spent the last half-century running forty of the world's wild rivers, from the iconic Euphrates and Colorado to thrillingly unknown cataracts in New Guinea, uncharted stretches of white water in East Africa, and meltwater-flooded canyons in the Sierra Nevada. Along the way he's faced a host of exotic dangers, from charging hippos to malaria and rapid runs gone awry. Whether you're an armchair traveler or a longtime river rat, you'll be glad to have Ghiglieri as your guide journeying into the unknown, with thrills, spills, and hair-raising tales of high adventure."-Gregory McNamee, author of Gila: The Life and Death of an American River
"Storytelling through the words of a scientist with an excellent hand is the best kind of storytelling. Ghiglieri's adventures are hard won and deeply considered, swashbuckling and relevant."-Craig Childs, author of Tracing Time: Seasons of Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau
"Wild rivers are merely reservoirs postponed. Yet without their currents, the stitches that hold the world together come undone. Michael Ghiglieri, equal parts adventurer, guide, and scholar, makes the compelling case for the freedom of flows, for the great unfathomable rides that rouse our lives and stir us into wonder and joy."-Richard Bangs, author of The Art of Living Dangerously: True Stories from a Life on the Edge
ISBN: 9780826366849
ISBN-10: 0826366848
Published: 15th September 2024
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 336
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: UNIV OF NEW MEXICO
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 21.59 x 14.99 x 2.79
Weight (kg): 0.52
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