Whitewater: The World's Wildest Rivers
Graeme Addison


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1 Rivers and rafting
This fascinating book tells the story of the rivers and the pioneers who opened them up for rafting. The rivers are discussed by continent, as follows: North America deals with rivers in Canada, Alaska, Idaho, California, Tennessee and Virginia. Central and South America includes Costa Rica, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru and Chile. The chapter Europe, Asia Minor and the Middle East looks at Iceland, Norway, Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia, Croatia, Jordan, Israel and Iran. Then follows Asia, Siberia, China and Kyrgyzstan. Himalaya deals with rivers in Nepal, Pakistan, India and Tibet, whilst The East, Australia and New Zealand includes the rivers of Sumatra, Borneo and Papua New Guinea. Finally, the chapter Africa discusses the rivers of Burundi, Congo, Zimbabwe and South Africa. The book includes sections on the safety of rivers, the grading of rapids and the development of whitewater boats and boating from 1842 to 2000. There is a large map of the world indicating all the rivers discussed, small maps for every section plus impressive full colour photographs. The book concludes with a glossary, bibliography and index.


Sunday, 06-Jul-2008 05:21:52 CDT
Quote of the Day:


If you are smart enough to know that you're not smart enough to be an

Engineer, then you're in Business.

An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician find themselves in an
anecdote, indeed an anecdote quite similar to many that you have no doubt
already heard. After some observations and rough calculations the
engineer realizes the situation and starts laughing. A few minutes later
the physicist understands too and chuckles to himself happily as he now
has enough experimental evidence to publish a paper. This leaves the
mathematician somewhat perplexed, as he had observed right away that he
was the subject of an anecdote, and deduced quite rapidly the presence of
humour from similar anecdotes, but considers this anecdote to be too
trivial a corollary to be significant, let alone funny.