Search Results: Kayaking

University of Washington Press, 1988. Fine and bright glossy pictorial stiff wraps with excellent square spine and crisp bright text throughout. Profusely illustrated with photographs and drawings. With very informative text

Crown Publishers, 2000. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. The Book is in Very Good+ condition. It was the ultimate whitewater adventure on the Mount Everest of rivers, and the biggest challenge of their lives....October 1998 an American whitewater paddling team traveled deep into the Tsangpo Gorge in Tibet to run the Yarlung Tsangpo, known in paddling circles as the Everest of rivers. On Day 12 of that trip, the team's ace paddler, one of four kayakers on the river, launched off an eight-foot waterfall and flipped. He and his overturned kayak spilled into the heart of the thunderous "freight training" river and were swept downstream, never to be seen again. The Last River: The Tragic Race for Shangri-la is a breathtaking account of this ill-fated expedition, a fascinating exploration of what propelled these kayakers to take on the seething big water and perilous Himalayan terrain of the deepest gorge on the planet. This was the magical Shangri-la of legend, a 140-mile-long canyon… Read More

John Wiley & Sons, 1990. Paperback. Used: Acceptable. Paperback - 1991 - good condition - - . 0-906754-60-7. Isbn 0906754607.

Privately Published, 1987. First edition. Softcover. Like New. In a style both light and engaging, Williams Evans teaches an old and honorable lesson, one that goes back to Plato: lasting, substantial joy is the work of discipline, harmony and grace. Virtue - not insatiable excess - is the source of happiness in life, love, and Kayak. The right measure is always, and enjoyably, enough". With full-page b/w photos of outdoor landscapes, whitewater kayaking; stories, poems, exploring and adventuring.

Mountaineers Books, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good . 8x5x1. The story of the author's kayak trip from one of the turbulent head waters in the Andes foothills down the almost 4000 miles of the Amazon River to it's Atlantic mouth near Belem, and in so doing, found his adventure included in the Guinness Book of Records.

Greystone Books, 2004. Fifth edition, 2nd printing. Paperback. New/New.
Paperback. Fifth edition, 2nd printing. Condition: Fine.

Clearwater Pools Publishing Co,, 1988. Softcover. Very Good. 8x0x11. Signed by Author. In Very Good+ condition. Gift inscription by and signed by author. Signed copies rarely offered. "In a style both light and engaging, Williams Evans teaches an old and honorable lesson, one that goes back to Plato: lasting, substantial joy is the work of discipline, harmony and grace. Virtue - not insatiable excess - is the source of happiness in life, love, and Kayak. The right measure is always, and enjoyably, enough". With full-page b/w photos of outdoor landscapes, whitewater kayaking; stories, poems, exploring and adventuring.

Fort Collins, CO Poudre Canyon Press, 1998. Hardcover First Edition (1998), not directly stated, but First Printing stated and further indicated by a complete numerical sequence, according to Poudre Canyon Press's customary practice at the time of publication. First Edition (1998), not directly stated, but First Printing stated and further indicated by a complete numerical sequence, according to Poudre Canyon Press's customary practice at the time of publication. Very Near Fine in Near Fine DJ: Both book and DJ show only minute indications of use. The Book shows slight spine lean; else flawless; the binding remains secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing an unobtrusive imperfection. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. Very close to 'As… Read More

Hamish Hamilton, 1992. 1st ed VG pb. paddling around the islands of Oceania, over 500 pages

A & C Black Ltd, 1969. 1st ed Poor as ex library with usual stamps, and Poor illustrated cover, no dw . handbook on canoeing: choice of canoe, river & sea canoeing techniques, rescue, transport, building etc

Abacus, 1995. reprint G++ pb . account of various trips, taking a folding kayak and using it in various places around the world, from shark infested waters around the Solomon Islands, to bandits and floating bodies on the Ganges, and irate hippos on Lake Malawi

Scottish Canoe Assoc, 1994. 1st ed VG pb. small format pb 52 pages, 48 rivers and suggested routes

CBC, 1966. CBC ed VG in VG- dw . account of rowing the Atlantic in 1966 in an open boat just 20ft long

Cordillera Press, 1987. 1st ed VG pb. a training manual aimed at the outdoor athlete, covers climbing, mountain biking, skiing, kayaking

Diadem, 1990. 1st Eng ed VG in VG dw. account of a 6000 mile coast to coast journey by canoe across Canada

Vertebrate Publishing, 2012. 1st ed VG+ pb. small format pb, just 58 pages, a collection of five short essays covering a few of his climbing and canoeing trips to Greenland, the Yukon and Norway

Christopher Johnson, 1957. 1st ed G only as ex library with stamps and faded spine no dw . a collection of reminiscences of early treks with the Boy Scouts. Through Scotland around the time of the 1st WW, a very early version of the Tour du Mont Blanc, and a canoe trek in Canada

Oxford Illustrated Press, 1990. 1st ed VG in VG dw. account of a record breaking kayak journey down the Missouri - Mississippi, 3810 miles from the Rockies to the Gulf of Mexico

Bradt Publications, 1986. 1st ed VG pb signed by John Harrison. Yes. a kayak journey up an obscure tributary of the Amazon ends in bouts of malaria and near disaster, signed by John Harrison

The O'Brien Press, 1998. 1st ed VG pb. account of a solo journey around Ireland by kayak