Richard Bangs: Adventure Without End - Softcover

Bangs, Richard

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9780898868609: Richard Bangs: Adventure Without End

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ISBN 10: 0898868602 ISBN 13: 9780898868609

Publisher: Mountaineers Books, 2002

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The author presents a collection of travel and adventure stories, including a chronicle of a whitewater rafting trip in Idaho's Selway River and mountaineering in Washington State and Borneo.

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About the Author:

Richard Bangs is the author of many books and is often called the father of modern adventure travel. He is now the host of the PBS series Richard Bangs' Adventures with Purpose, now one of PBS's hottest series. Bangs is a well-known TV personality, whose travel specials and documentaries have been shown on public television foryears, and is the co-director of the IMAX film Mystery of the Nile. This is the first Open Road companion book in this series and will be followed by the future books on Norway, India, and a number of other destinations.

From Library Journal:

Bangs (The Lost River), former owner of an adventure travel company and currently a tour operator and guide, has described many of his worldwide solo and group expeditions on the Internet at Expedia.com, MSNBC.com, and Mungo Park. This collection of his Internet contributions features treks in Patagonia, Indonesia, Kalimantan (Borneo), and Morocco; mountaineering in Washington State and Borneo; kayaking in Newfoundland; cycling in Burgundy; canoeing/rafting in Idaho, Tanzania, and the Northwest Territories (Canada); and other adventures. These exploits are recounted with genuine enthusiasm, some attention to historical and cultural context, and a tincture of self-deprecating humor. However, the book fails to captivate the armchair traveler, since the narrative style, unfettered by syntactical, grammatical, or editorial precepts, is still more suited to Internet campfire conversations. Recommended only for public libraries with extensive adventure travel collections. Lonnie Weatherby, McGill Univ. Lib., Montreal
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