rafting (sports)

Simple text and illustrations provide and introduction to white water rafting, discussing what tools are needed and more.

Twelve-year-olds Aaron and Lisa, and sixteen-year-old bad-boy Cassidy, join their Army-buddy fathers on a float trip down Utah's Green River, where they face terrible physical and mental challenges.

Nancy and her friends find their lives in danger when a maniac stalks them while they are on a white water rafting expedition.

When Elmer the patchwork elephant and his cousin Wilbur decide to go whale-watching, as their grandfather Eldo did at their age, their journey becomes far more of an adventure than they anticipated.

"Images accompany information about whitewater rafting. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.

Michael Ghiglieri writes of his seventeen years as a professional river guide in the Grand Canyon.

Park Service ranger Anna Pigeon, on administrative leave after being diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, hopes that a rafting trip in Big Bend National Park, planned by her husband of one year, will pull her out of her depression, but trouble finds her once again when the raft is lost in the rapids and one of the rafters discovers a pregnant woman, near death, caught in a tangle of downed branches.