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The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story Of The Fastest Ride In History Through The Heart Of The Grand Canyon (2013)

by Kevin Fedarko(Favorite Author)

4.45 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1439159858 (ISBN13: 9781439159859)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Scribner

review 1: This is a pretty amazing book about an incredible journey through the Grand Canyon. The author knows how to turn a phrase to emotionally capture the reader into the breathtaking river ride. Perhaps could have been more effective with fewer details of the history and engineering behind the high-water event. It seemed to take a long time to get to the heart of the adventure. But all in all... Highly recommended.
review 2: Seductively written, with consummate skill, this is a marvelous evocation of the Grand Canyon and the people who live and work there, strung on the thread of an amazing adventure tale. A little slow going at first, and perhaps a bit long, it nevertheless rewards the reader with gems of writing in almost every paragraph. This author has a s... moretellar gift for language and writing, and has applied all his creative skills, along with a truly ferocious attention to detail and scholarship, to produce a work that is scrupulously documented. I must point out that he manages this scholarship in a way that the reader is completely unaware of that until arriving at the extensive footnotes at the end, which compose about 30% of the total length of the Kindle ebook. I highlighted passage after passage, until I finally gave up; I don't think I'd ever been struck quite so often by an author's skill. It's not all poetry, it's muscular and direct when needed, but always supremely well done.I look forward to his next work! less

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