The River Will Be a Part of Us: A 20th Century River Trek

by Wayne Thomas

In the Summer of 1981, an international assortment of young people gathered at a public park on the banks of the Missouri River just outside Kansas City. In ten days, they built a 16x24-foot raft from assorted lumber, a telephone pole and thirty-two 55-gallon oil drums. Propelled only by the river current and four 10-foot-long deck-mounted oars, in two months the crew of the "Eulenspiegel" floated 1,420 miles down the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1954119356
• ISBN13: 9781954119352
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Daylight Books
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 8.5"