Voyage Of A Summer Sun: Canoeing the Columbia River
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (694 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0679417680 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 301 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-27 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
From Columbia Lake (its source in the Canadian Rockies) all 1,200 miles to the Pacific Ocean, Robin Cody finally takes the 82-day trip that started with an idle but persistent thought: "a guy could probably canoe it." And Cody has all that's required (love of river, canoeing know-how, writing ease, and self-effacing humor) to take the trip and tell the tale. The beautiful Columbia River can be wild and unpredictable, which means it's perfect for an epic North American canoe adventure.
The author of Richochet River describes his eighty-two day voyage down the Columbia River, from its source to the sea, chronicling his adventures, wildlife, and encounters with the colorful human characters he meets along the way. Tour.
Adventure and Columbia River history combined! Shar H. As a Washington State resident, I see the Columbia river all the time. It fascinates me. It's literally everywhere. I got this book not because I canoe (I don't) but I love reading about adventurous journeys such as this and also it's about the Columbia. I got my Columbia river history fix AND an adventurous journey book rolled into one. I most enjoyed when he'd meet up with people along his journey and interact with them. I think this is a fine book and I'm very glad I got it.. abibliophile said Classic adventuring, voyaging, sense of place, traveler. Of the hundreds of books I have on the Pacific Northwest, this is easily one of my favorites. Aside from Robin Cody simply being an excellent writer, enjoyable to read, easy to follow, this book specifically invokes a true sense of place of the Columbia. It has a flavor of the classic Farthest Frontier, adventure, outdoors, wide open Northwest in the spirit of David Thompson, Theodore Winthrop, James Swan and the like (not to mention Lewis & Clark). Robin Cody evokes a sense of p. R.D. Hight said Good but aging.. It's obvious from Voyage of a Summer Sun that Robin Cody loves the wilderness and the river, but he does an excellent job of presenting its importance without sliding very far into environmentalism per se, by which I mean he also shows the people and projects that have tampered with the Columbia, sometimes drastically, and he shows them with a minimum of slant.Cody's prose is easy to read, and his focus shifts pleasantly between the people he meets, the river itself, the issues s