High Wide And Handsome The River Journals of Norman D. Nevills
When he started taking paying passengers by boat through the rapids of the Colorado River's canyons, Norman Nevills invented whitewater tourism and the commercial river business. For twelve years, from 1938 until his death in a plane crash in 1949, he safely took, without a single life lost, fr...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Logan, Utah :
Utah State University Press
2005.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430346606719 |
| Summary: | When he started taking paying passengers by boat through the rapids of the Colorado River's canyons, Norman Nevills invented whitewater tourism and the commercial river business. For twelve years, from 1938 until his death in a plane crash in 1949, he safely took, without a single life lost, friends, explorers, and customers down the Colorado, Green, San Juan, Salmon, and Snake Rivers in boats he designed. National media found him and his adventures irresistible and turned him into the personification of river running. Logging seven trips through the Grand Canyon when no one else had c |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781283283366 9786613283368 9780874215083 |
| Access: | Open Access |
