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Richard Bangs, Author Thunder Bay Press (CA) $29.98 (0p) ISBN 978-0-934429-20-7
Despite a glossy, oversize format fit for the coffee table, this incongruous production has some guts to it. Rafting pioneer Bangs (coauthor of Rivergods ) serves up wonderful slices of life as he takes us on 10 of his favorite whitewater streams....
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Richard Bangs, Author Random House Trade $25 (288p) ISBN 978-1-57805-026-0
With straightforward storytelling, Bangs recounts a nearly 30-year obsession with rafting some of the swiftest, most dangerous waters on earth. Bangs (Rivergods), editor-at-large of Expedia.com, Microsoft's online travel service, tells his tale with
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Richard Bangs, Author, Pasquale Scaturro, Author . Putnam $25.95 (294p) ISBN 978-0-399-15262-7
Explorers have always clamored to be the first, and after centuries of such conquests, there are precious few left. One first that hadn't been fully achieved, however, was navigating the Nile from its source in Ethiopia to where it pours into...
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Richard Bangs, Author, Christian K. Allen, Author, Bangs Richard, Author Laurel Press $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-21000-9
Bangs and Kallen tell of raft trips on the upper Yangize River in China, adding background material on ethnic groups and early explorers of the region to their first-rate adventure story. Photos. (Oct.)
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Richard Bangs, Author, Christian Kallen, Author Atheneum Books $29.95 (260p) ISBN 978-0-689-11932-3
From the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau at more than 17,000 feet above sea level, the Yangtze sweeps nearly 4000 miles to the East China Sea near Shanghai. Its source, in a remote and sparsely populated area, was discovered in 1985; few travelers had seen...
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JR. David Bangs, Author, Richard Bangs, Author Random House (NY) $37.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-87156-845-8
The lure of river-rafting has taken Bangs and Kallen across hundreds of miles of waterways. Here they describe their breathtaking explorations of such rivers as the Omo in Ethiopia, the Zambezi (Zambia), the Coruh (Turkey), the Indus (Pakistan), the
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