Anything Worth Doing, Jo Deurbrouck
Anything Worth Doing, Jo Deurbrouck
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Anything Worth Doing
A true story of adventure, friendship and tragedy on the last of the West's great rivers

Author: Jo Deurbrouck

Narrator: Jo Deurbrouck

Unabridged: 6 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/20/2014

Synopsis

2012 NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD WINNERAnything Worth Doing tells the unforgettable true story of larger-than-life whitewater raft guides Clancy Reece and Jon Barker, two men who share a love of wild rivers and an unbending will to live life on their terms, no matter the cost.Clancy’s motto, ‘Anything worth doing is worth overdoing,’ leads them into a decade of beautiful-and beautifully strange-river adventures. Then, on June 8, 1996, in pursuit of a 24-hour speed record they intend to share only with a handful of friends, the men launch Clancy’s handmade dory, his proudest possession, onto Idaho’s renowned Salmon River at peak flood of an extreme high water year. This time the odds catch up with them.With clarity reminiscent of Krakauer’s Into the Wild, whitewater veteran Jo Deurbrouck carries us down the West’s great rivers and into the hearts, minds and homes of that rare breed for whom security is optional but freedom and passion are not. Anything Worth Doing-taut and efficient, yet rich with insight-is destined to become an adventure classic.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jo on November 17, 2012

Ok so you can't review your own book. And I won't BUT I do get to click the five star rating to show how great it feels, after 17 years of hired-pen work and two books I couldn't get comfortable with, to have a title that I really, really like......more

Goodreads review by Naseem on January 03, 2016

Excellent book, and a great example of how the mainstream publishing world just does not get it. The author, in her acknowledgements says the work was rejected "by nearly every other publisher in the world." That's a shame, as Jo Deurbrouck's book is a very well written, exceptionally informative, a......more

Goodreads review by Kurt on December 29, 2012

Some of my favorite books are non-fiction adventure stories -- books like Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster, Kon-Tiki, and Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival. I suppose a lot of this has to do with the fact that I fancy myself a light-weigh......more

Goodreads review by Rob on June 25, 2017

I randomly bought this book at the North Fork, ID, cafe/mini-mart (because I had just finished "Tarzan of the Apes", which I had picked up at a used bookstore in Laramie, WY) unaware that that very business appears in the book several times, or that, as we traveled on to Salmon and Stanley, both of......more

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