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Richard Bangs is the author of thirteen books, including the award winning The Lost River: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Transformation on Wild Water, and is currently the president of Outward Bound USA
Fonte dell'immagine: Richard Bangs rafting By Richard Bangs - Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30467676

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Quest for the Kasbah (2009) 2 copie

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Rivergods balances adventurous text from Bangs and Kallen with gorgeous photography. Christian Kallen and Richard Bangs bring many of the most powerful, yet mostly unheard of, rivers to life as they describe trying to raft or kayak each one. By traveling all corners of the globe, they are able to meet indigenous peoples in South America, Australia, Africa, and Asia. By studying their anthropologies, they learn a little about each culture including head hunting and cannibalism. Each river teaches them about the power of Mother Nature and the real dangers of trying to tame her.
As an aside, when I started running with Dr. Tommy Rivs, one of the things he taught me early on was about Islamic religion. In accordance with the beliefs of Islam, no humans or animals can be portrayed or duplicated by man. All art such as tile work, tapestries, and carpets must be of geometric shapes and flowers. It was cool to see Bangs and Kallen talk about it in Rivergods.
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SeriousGrace | 2 altre recensioni | Jul 12, 2021 |
The great rivers through tribal lands of PNG plus a little on the Alas River
of the Gunung Leuser National Park in northern Sumatra.
 
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Alhickey1 | 2 altre recensioni | May 8, 2021 |
This book traces the adventures of explorers Richard Bangs and Christian Kallen as they raft down rivers in North and South America, Africa, Asia and Australia, selecting rivers with gradients that ensured white water. Along the way they combined physical challenge with anthropological and ecological investigation. Bangs and Kallen encountered hidden African tribes, observed Peruvian ceremonies revering the Inca and discovered for themselves that the Indus is still only partly navigable.
 
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riselibrary_CSUC | 2 altre recensioni | Jul 4, 2020 |
Chapter on Lombok.
One copy in the States,
one copy in Bali.
 
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Alhickey1 | Dec 31, 2019 |

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