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Editorial Reviews
Mary Sojourner, Arizona Daily Sun, October 9, 1998
[The authors] are river-runners and they are fine writers. Welch's craft is strong. River runner or not, the reader flips with Buzz at Black Bar Falls, sits shivering at twilight on a boulder, swims the icy river, and tired and cold, goes on.
[The authors] are river-runners and they are fine writers. Welch's craft is strong. River runner or not, the reader flips with Buzz at Black Bar Falls, sits shivering at twilight on a boulder, swims the icy river, and tired and cold, goes on.
By the time Holmstrom puts his hand-built boat into Green River, we like the young boatman. By the end of the voyage, we love him. He emerges, through Dimock's storytelling and excerpts of Buzz' journal as a bright, hugely conscious man, expert at carpentry, rowing, survival in hard terrain and, more than anything, steering his journey not against the river, but with it. If writing is, as Dimock's and Welch's skill would bear out, a river, then what "The Doing of the Thing" accomplishes is the restoration of the flow and the bringing to the surface of a fine human being.
Book Description
Biography of America's great river runner, Buzz Holmstrom: the first to run the Green and Colorado Rivers alone in 1937. Born in the coastal logging communities of coastal Oregon, Holmstrom built his own wooden boats and soloed several of the country's great whitewater rivers. He died mysteriously on the Grande Ronde River at age 37.
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- Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon by Edward Dolnick in Back Matter
- There's This River... Grand Canyon Boatman Stories by Christa Sadler in Back Matter
- Driftboats: A Complete Guide by Dan Alsup in Back Matter
