Hardcover. Stated 1st edition hardcover with dustjacket 1989 Knopf. Superclean; no marks; pages bright; binding tight. Only light wear. 278pp, B/W photos. Language: English. NOTE: Cannot ship outside U.S. via Global Priority--Surface or Airmail only. 'It was an ill-assorted multinational party of 10 men and 1 woman; their object was to run the 4200 miles of the Amazon, from a snowfield in the Peruvian Andes to the Atlantic Ocean. Kane was the only American in the group. Of the original 11, only 4, Kane among them, reached the sea, 6 months after the start. This is a spine-tingling adventure narrative that leaves the reader eager to learn what next will befall these hapless travelers. They encountered extremes of weather, altitude sickness, suicidal rapids, armed guerrillas; they met Indians who had never encountered white people; they camped on the grounds of a cocaine factory. Kane gives a vivid account of running the rapids--some of the members were swept into the river, barely escaping death. It was a grueling journey and a historic one--this expedition was the first to paddle the entire length of the Amazon.'--Publishers Weekly, 1989.