River Guides for British Columbia

Whitewater In BC's Southwest Steve Crowe and Jim Hnatiak

(ISBN 0-9688038-0-6, 01)

Whitewater Trips Betty Pratt-Johnson

Vancouver Island (ISBN 0-914718-90-8, PSP, 84) West and East Kootenay with Hot Springs (ISBN 0921009186, Adventure Publishing, 89) Vancouver through Whistler, Okanagan and Thompson River regions (ISBN 0931397081, Adventure Publishing, 86)

Canadian Rockies Whitewater Stuart Smith

South (ISBN - 0-9699618-0-4, Headwaters Press, 95) Central (ISBN - 0-9699618-1-2, Headwaters Press) West Coast (coming soon.... so we hope)

Paddle Books for the Dry Season

Whitewater Tales of Terror and Kayaks to Hell by William Nealy; best yaking cartoons ever! Cadillac Desert : The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Mark Reisner. Ever wondered where all the dams south of the border come from? Check this book out - from gold rush to dirty politics - you'll find a it all in this book. ISBN: 0140178244 Never Turn Back : The Life of Whitewater Pioneer Walt Blackadar by Ron Watters. Exciting reading about Blackadar and the history of whitewater kayaking. ISBN 1-877625-03-5 Demon River Apurimac : The First Navigation of Upper Amazon Canyons by J. Calvin Giddings Running the Amazon by John Kane. First complete decent. What an adventure! Paddling the length of the world's longest river: Tough rapids, tropical storms, Maoist guerrillas, cocaine growers, as well as beauty and inspiration. ISBN: 067972902x Amazon extreme: Yet another first decent of the Amazon, this one in a raft! By Colin Angus, 2000. Innocent on the Middle Fork, kayaking history 1942, on the Salmon in Idaho, by Eliot Dubois. ASIN: 089886125X The Last River: The Tragic Race for Shangri-la, By Todd Balf, Crown Publishing, ISBN 0-609-60625-5 River's End: A Collection of Bedtime Stories for Paddlers by Sedivy. Tales for river runners, from the New, Meadow, Grand Canyon, Cheat, Gauley, Snake, and Salmon rivers, and expeditions in Costa Rica, Quebec, and Alaska. River Reflections, an anthology edited by Verne Huser. Stories and philosophies about rivers, river running, and river history, by well-known authors. Class Five Chronicles, Things Mother Never Told You 'Bout Whitewater edited by Jeff Bennett. Stories by boaters from extreme rafting expeditions on rivers around the world, with information and logistics on how to run those rivers. Riding the Dragon's Back, the Race to Raft the Upper Yangtze by Richard Bangs and Christian Kallen. An account of their own trip plus earlier expeditions to this previously unrunnable river in China. ASIN: 0689119321

Instructional books

Kayak : The Animated Manual of Intermediate and Advanced Whitewater Technique by William Nealy, with great cartoons.