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“Voyage of a Summer Sun: Canoeing the Columbia River” by Robin Cody
“On the morning of June 18, 1990, high up in the Canadian Rockies, Robin Cody pushed his sixteen-foot, forty-seven-pound Kevlar canoe through tall grass and mud to launch it on peaceful Columbia Lake, the nominal source of the river that heaves more water into the Pacific Ocean than any other in North or South America: the Columbia. For the next eighty-two days, Cody would steer his canoe around massive dams, through killer rapids, and across reservoirs the size of small states, plunging 2,750 feet in 1,200 miles….”
—From the book jacket of Robin Cody’s Voyage of a Summer Sun (Alfred A. Knopf, 1995), recipient of the Oregon Book Award and the PNWB (Pacific Northwest Booksellers) Book Award.
