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3 doods decide to raft the amazon river from the headwaters. its not even called the amazon yet, and it starts from a glacier. The hike from the pacific almost kills them, and the raft trip is full or adventure packed-ed-ness. not done yet, but i guess they didnt die because hes still alive right now. makes me think of more canoe adventures. hopefully long ones. like a week or more. these guys are in there 20s, so its a pretty fast read. not many technical details, thats why its fast. this colin angus guy wrote a bunch of other books. i think ive read 2 or 3. one about paddleing and one about biking and kayaking with his sister or wife. she has the same last name. ill see if i can find them. 
Dick Pronneke is a dood that built a log cabin at Twin Lakes in Alaska. His first book "one man's wilderness" was sweet. this is the second one. pretty much a journal style book that chronicles 5 years of his stay up there. all year. pretty awesome. read the first one first. it's better that way, and one of my favourite books of all time.
Around the time when Machu Pichu was found by some guy who i think is named Bingham, another guy was adventuring around the amazon. He left his wife and kids alone while he mapped borders and rivers and mountains and stuff. He never really seemed to get mega-sick, which is pretty helpful when you are walking in the jungle. He was looking for a crazy place where people painted themselves with gold and in a time where lots of places were still undiscovered, thats pretty cool. read it.
i can't believe this is the 1st wade davis book i posted about. he a an anthropologist explorer who has done a lot of really cool stuff. like peyote. and been a lot of really cool places, like pretty much everywhere cool, but mostly the amazon area. this book is about the 1st 3 british expeditions to mt everest. coincidentally (actually not) the "main character", if there is one, is the same guy that The lost explorer (see 3 books above) was out to find. spoiler alert!!! hes dead. it took a bit to get into the book, like 2 months, but once i was in, i was in. i've seen wade davis speak a few times, and it's always been damn cool. this book is the same. i love exploration and adventure books, that's obvious, and this one just fits right in. cool story, cool maps. overall cool.
Sigurd Olson was buddys with dick Pronneke, from a few books up. he was an adventurer around canada and the northern states who wrote a few books about his exploits, mostly canoe exploits. This one is not really about 1 adventure, but more about some of the ideas that come from his trip. his trips were around the 50s and are not as in depth as most of the other books i;ve read. as a result, you can read one while waiting in the emergency room waiting rooms for 4 hours. check out some of his books. feels like reading something my grandpa would write, in a good way.
one of the first groups to try and go down the tsangpo river in tibet. it's in the deepest gorge in the world. pretty crazy setting. i totally love cool expedition books, so it's no surprise i found and dug this book. 1 guy dies (not a spoiler) but it wasn't clear who until it happened. i read another book about a later expedition that gave it away. i'm not really into kayaking, so that wasn't why i liked it, but i do like camping and mad adventures, so that was right on. overall i give this book 2 cups of fruit salad. 
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