Travel to South America

Running the Amazon

Format: Paperback
Author: Joe Kane
ReleaseDate: 12 May, 1990
Publisher: Vintage
Rating:

Adventure literature classic
National Geographic ranked it #57 in its top 100 Adventure Books of all-time. Adventure literature classic.

A team of nine, mostly strangers, attempts to be the first to traverse the Amazon river--from its source in Peru down to the Atlantic--the longest river in the world. Joe Kane is invited as a journalist to document the journey, but who has no boating or adventure experience. Crisis among the team leadership leads to a breakdown and in the end things don't turn out as expected. Reads like a novel. New found love, personal conflicts, peasant revolutions, and the dangers of the river propel the story forward to the sea, "it's all downhill from here".

A Classic In Travel/Adventure Lit
Among the many travel narratives out there, this is one of the best you will find. If it isn't already, Joe Kane's RUNNING THE AMAZON will definitely become a real classic in travel and adventure lit.

Kane was invited along on a half-baked expedition to run the length of the Amazon river, from its' Andean source to it's broad end at the Atlantic Ocean. After hiking across the continental divide from the Pacific side of Peru (trekking alongside the Rio Colca gorge, the deepest outside of the Himalayas), the descent begins.

Along the way, the splintering expedition dodges falling rocks in cleft gorges, narcotrafficers, Maoist rebels, storms and other assorted hazards along the way. Kane's descriptions of the journey, and every stop along the way, are remarkably vivid, doing what every great travel book should do, but so few actually do.

An unforgettable account of an admirable trip; highly recommended.

-David Alston.

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Well written, as the author shares all his feelings, hurts, thoughts. What a wonderful, thrilling, adventure-packed, suspense-filled book! It has everything, even a love story. And vividly outlines his fellow members of the expedition. Much is learned, also, of Peru and Brazil.

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