High Wide And Handsome The River Journals of Norman D. Nevills

• Autor principal: Webb, Roy (auth)
• Formato: Recurso Electrónico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: University Press of Colorado 2005
• Assuntos: Biography: general; Humanities; History of the Americas; Natural history; Boating; History; Biological Sciences; Sociology
• Acesso em linha: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

When he started taking paying passengers by boat through the rapids of the Colorado River's canyons, Norman Nevills invented whitewater tourism and the commercial river business. For twelve years, from 1938 until his death in a plane crash in 1949, he safely took, without a single life lost, fr...