There's This River... Grand Canyon Boatman Stories

by Christa Sadler

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On our Grand Canyon river trip, one of the guides read us several stories. We enjoyed them enough to want to pick up a copy of the book for ourselves.

Most of the stories are quite funny, and I had trouble reading them out loud in the car, I was laughing so hard.

Most are older stories, and I wish there was another volume of stories from more recent river guides and trips. Maybe someone will start another collection.

Having just been through the Grand Canyon, this was a wonderful way for us to relive a bit of our trip.

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