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The World's Wildest Rivers: Whitewater (Top) (Hardcover)

by Graeme Addison (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 160 pages
  • Publisher: New Holland Publishers Ltd (1 Nov 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1859745016
  • ISBN-13: 978-1859745014
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 930,212 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The past few decades have seen whitewater running become a major adventure activity worldwide. New technologies in boating material and a new ethos of adventure travel have made this possible. Here is the extraordinary story of modern whitewater exploration, of the great popular runs and the legendary rapids, the hair-raising adventures and the daredevil adventurers, and the great races and festivals that take place on the world's rivers. Forty of the world's greatest rivers feature in the book, from the Colorado to the Yangtze, the Dudh Kosi to the Zambezi. This is a celebration of the great rivers of the world, shot through with a hard edge of concern for their future. This is the ultimate thrill-seeker's book, celebrating in glorious pictures the beauty of wild white rivers and the adventure of running them.

About the Author
Graeme Addison pioneered whitewater rafting in Southern Africa during the 1970s and 1980s, establishing the first river tourism company, Rivermen, in 1982. He continues to train river guides and is currently the chairman of the Instructor Council of the Professional Rafting Association of South Africa. He has rafted and kayaked around the world, and now writes about river sports for Out There magazine. He has also written Whitewater Rafting in the Adventure Sports series for New Holland. He lives in Pretoria, South Africa. The foreword is written by Britain's foremost explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The best book on white water rivers of the world!, 11 Jan 2002
By pswinn@aol.com (Grand Junction, Colorado, USA) - See all my reviews
This is a coffee table book, the kind you leave out as a room decoration. It's the one book that your boating friends will pick up while visiting, and then you'll have trouble getting their attention. Graeme covers the stories of the first descents of the worlds great white water rivers so well it make you want to run them all.

I have been kayaking and rafting since the late 1960's and have been running first descents in China since the early 1990's. I rarely buy more than one copy of whitewater books, but this one is so well done and such a good deal that its worth buying several of them.

Pete Winn

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5.0 out of 5 stars Shoot the World's Rapids from your Coffee Table, 19 Dec 2001
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Graeme Addison's White Water: The World's Wildest Rivers is a welcome new release from the publishers of classic sporting coffee table books. This glossy offering takes the reader down some of the most highly regarded rafting rivers in the world, bombarding the senses with the power and beauty of the natural wonders upon which white-water rafters get thier kicks. Addison touches on the history and development of white-water rafting - from Horace Day's invention of the inflatable rubber raft in 1842 to the creation of artificial rapids for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney - as well as safety tips and a key to river garding. The bulk of this marvellous book is devoted to the splendour of such exotic locales as the Sjoa in Norway, the Pacuare in Costa Rica, the Kali Gandaki in Nepal and South Africa's Orange River. Addison incorporates historic and geographic facts about each river, maps and experiences of top rafters, all sensationally illustrated.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Simply Fantastic, 30 Oct 2001
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If you can't get out and see the world yourself, this will take you there. If you've been out and seen the world, this will take you there in a way you never dreamed of. And if you've paddled the whitewater rivers of the world, this will remind you of just how great it was.

Beautifull pictures combined with prose that will trasport you wherever the writer wishes to take you.

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