Fascinated by ôswift streamsö from childhood, Clyde Eddy first saw the Colorado River in 1919 and vowed that he would someday travel its length. Eight years later, with no experience but having read accounts of unsuccessful attempts to navigate the riverÆs perilous Grand Canyon rapids, he had three heavy mahogany boats built. He then recruited a handful of East Coast college students as crewmen, hired an inexperienced guide, and decided to bring along a heavy motion picture camera so he could film portions of the unfolding drama. On June 27, 1927, EddyÆs troop of ô11 college boys, a hobo, a mongrel dog, and a cub bearö (as Sports Illustrated described the expedition years later) left Green River, Utah, on the eight-hundred-mile journey to Needles, California. When the group arrived safely forty-two days later, it became the first to successfully navigate the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon during its annual high-water period. This book, first published in 1929 and unavailable for decades, is the original narrative of that thrilling, but foolhardy, adventure. Book jacket.