Running The Amazon Author:Joe Kane Until the summer of 1985 no one had ever traveled the 4200 miles of the Amazon River. It looked just too formidable. But in late August of that year nine young men and women made the attempt. They had an incredible journey. They came from all over the world...for sport, for science, for the thrill. In the event there was something for everyone.... more » But the biggest reward was to have done it, to have conquered the endless Amazon from its source to its Atlantic spillway. "A first-hand account of adventure in the grand manner." (Publisher's Source)« less