Down the World's Most Dangerous River
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1929. First Edition. Octavo. Item #024193
Portrait frontispiece, signed and inscribed "With every good wish/for a wonderful voyage/Clyde Eddy". 293 pp. illustrated with photographic images. Frederick S. Dellenbaugh, one of the surviving members of Major Powell's expedition contributes the introduction. Eddy is the only man who has navigated the rapids of the Colorado at extreme high and low levels of water. This is the story of a highwater expedition through the 300 bad rapids of the Colorado River. In 1927, he and a group of college students travelled through the Grand Canyon and other canyons of the Colorado River from Green river, Utah, to Needles California. They faced death daily in the high and dangerous waters. Bound in a tan pictorial linen depicting two men in a boat, lettered and decorated in brown, spine lettering brown, very light wear to spine ends, some light finger soiling to covers, in unclipped pictorial dust jacket lettered in yellow, spine ends and corners lightly chipped.
Price: $325.00