Book description
It was crazy. It was unthinkable. It was the adventure of a lifetime.
When Don and Dana Starkell left Winnipeg in a tiny three-seater canoe, they had no idea of the dangers that lay ahead. Two years and 12,180 miles later, father and son had each paddled nearly twenty million…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Paddle to the Amazon as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Could you paddle a canoe from the center (almost) of North America (Winnipeg) to Belem at the mouth of the Amazon? Yeah, I'm going to say that's a hard no for everyone reading this. Now imagine doing it before home computers, cellphones, and GPS.
On July 1st, 1980, Don Starkell and his two sons set out to do just that. A two year trip that could have ended up in tragedy many times over, completed by a somewhat obsessive compulsion on the part of the father, straining relationships to the breaking point.
Written in diary style, this is a book…
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