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"It's good famous that Mother River doesn't like a intelligent aleck," says Patricia McCairen. Accordingly, she plies her oars with bend and ability on a infrequently hair-raising solo rafting outing along a Colorado River that winds yet a miraculous mill valleys of a American Grand Canyon. Like a waters of a Colorado, that change from long, still stretches to hot white H2O that hardly garments pointy rocks and hides holes that can siphon down a raft, McCairen's moods--and even her name--change as a miles unwind. One moment, she's a cocky, jaunty stream beam Babe; a next, she's an earthier, some-more devout lady who answers to a name of Patch. Hours later, she seems some-more vulnerable, reduction assured of her strength and fun in a waste she so zealously courts. Canyon Solitude annals these shifts and beautifully limns a tour that tests McCairen's eagerness and shows that determination, grit, and a will to spurn required rewards offer their possess low satisfactions.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2251018 in Books
- Published on: 1998-03-25
- Format: Bargain Price
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 304 pages
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Review
"It's good famous that Mother River doesn't like a intelligent aleck," says Patricia McCairen. Accordingly, she plies her oars with bend and ability on a infrequently hair-raising solo rafting outing along a Colorado River that winds yet a miraculous mill valleys of a American Grand Canyon. Like a waters of a Colorado, that change from long, still stretches to hot white H2O that hardly garments pointy rocks and hides holes that can siphon down a raft, McCairen's moods--and even her name--change as a miles unwind. One moment, she's a cocky, jaunty stream beam Babe; a next, she's an earthier, some-more devout lady who answers to a name of Patch. Hours later, she seems some-more vulnerable, reduction assured of her strength and fun in a waste she so zealously courts. Canyon Solitude annals these shifts and beautifully limns a tour that tests McCairen's eagerness and shows that determination, grit, and a will to spurn required rewards offer their possess low satisfactions. --Francesca Coltrera
From Publishers Weekly
Navigating a Colorado River by a Grand Canyon is customarily severe or during really slightest momentous. This honest, firsthand comment by McCairen, a maestro strut on a 25-day solo journey, describes a outing that was a perfection of McCairen's preference to change her life. Her keenly mindful eye and finely minute descriptions re-create a gracefulness of a Grand Canyon and a Colorado River in all their risk and beauty. Her terror during a opening of a outing and in some of a some-more shocking moments uncover a loyal disadvantage of a lady alone in a forest perplexing to accomplish a "man's" challenge. McCairen is a former city-dweller who fell in adore with a Grand Canyon on her initial organisation stream trip, and wanted to knowledge it solo. As a book, and trip, progress, McCairen as author and theme emerges as an ever some-more assured lady who discovers that a waste she has concurrently craved and feared has discontinued as ravine and stream means her. "Solitude has a sound all a own, a feeling, a special vision. With any cadence on a oars, we pull myself deeper into a realm.... Yes, I'm terribly tiny and vulnerable, diminutive compared to this deep, immature stream and a walls flourishing adult around me." McCairen's knowledge reflects a formidable array of emotions, though it is her fear, fun and ultimate exhilaration that come by many vividly.
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From Booklist
McCairen fell in adore with rafting early, though it was usually after white-water propagandize (in that she pennyless her leg a initial day out), years of stream guiding, and many catastrophic attempts to get work as a stream beam on a Colorado that she became a initial lady to solo a stream by Grand Canyon given Glen Canyon Dam was built in 1963. She undertook that try by default, when one after another of her rafting friends bent out, withdrawal her to find special accede from a park use for her solo exploit. The tour was one of personal expansion as good as geography, in that she found a ability to demeanour deeply, uncompromisingly within--something she had never before achieved notwithstanding months and years of vital alone in a forest tepee. In scouting and using a rapids, sunning bare on a rock, and laboriously unbeaching her craft, a 42-year-old detected life metaphors and lessons that usually kinship with inlet can provide. Must reading for white-water rafters and hikers of both a active and a armchair varieties. Whitney Scott
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