An award-winning Outside magazine writer documents the 1983 Colorado River flood that threatened the region with a catastrophic dam failure and prompted oarsman Kenton Grua's near-suicidal effort to navigate the turbulent waters of the Emerald Mile on a small wooden dory to achieve a world speed record.Lashed to her decks were two sets of ten-foot oars hewn from straight-grained Pennsylvania ash, and tucked into the footwell at the center of the boat lay a cable connecting a car battery to a pair of powerful searchlamps, the kind of devicesanbsp;...
Title | : | The Emerald Mile |
Author | : | Kevin Fedarko |
Publisher | : | Simon and Schuster - 2014-07-01 |
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