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River, One Man’s Journey Down the Colorado From Source to Sea
Colin Fletcher
Walking and floating the entire Colorado River from its Rocky Mountain headwaters to the Sea of Cortez — a journey almost no one has done, through some of the most contested water in the West.
Hiking & Walking
River & Water
Memoir
American Southwest
Buy at Bookshop.org
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Published
1997
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