"It was a wild ride...
Gregory Manchess\'s paintings have appeared in such publications as Time, Newsweek, Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian and.
His previous Great Explorer\'s Book, We Asked For Nothing: The Remarkable Journey of Cabeza de Vaca, won an International Reading Association Children\'s Book Award, Notable Book for 2004.
About the Author: Stuart Waldman is a writer and editor.
The Last River is an inspiring and riveting true adventure written with drama and compassion that brings history to life.
Original paintings and a foldout map allow the reader to follow the expedition\'s route and its adventures.
Excerpts from journals of crewmembers personalize the gripping text.
They saved each other from drowning, and suffered together as their food supply dwindled to nearly nothing.
They discovered canyons of unsurpassed beauty and gave them names like Music Temple and Canyon of Lodore.
For three months, he and nine crewmembers thrilled to riding the rapids and endured the backbreaking labor of transporting boats and cargo past rapids too dangerous to run.
Despite his size and the constant pain from the Civil War wound that had cost him his arm, Powell\'s twin passions--adventure and scientific exploration--drew him to the Colorado River.
The man who challenged the Colorado, Major John Wesley Powell, was a small, bookish geology professor from a Midwestern farm.
The Last River tells their remarkable story.
Three months and 1, 000 miles later, two battered boats carrying six exhausted and starving men emerged from the depths of the Grand Canyon.
In May 1869, ten men boarded four rowboats in Green River City, Wyoming. large, full-color impressionistic paintings convey the action." --School Library Journal No European had ever taken boats down the Colorado River and come out alive.
Handsomely designed text...
Well-chosen thrills, spills, and conflicts are spliced into a narrative that highlights the danger underlying this scientific mission... and this book does it justice. "It was a wild ride..
