Paddling the John Wesley Powell Route by Mike Bezemek - ADVISABLE

Paddling the John Wesley Powell Route: Exploring the Green and Colorado Rivers by Mike Bezemek, 217 pages. Falcon (Rowman & Littlefield), 2018. $26.

Content: G

BUYING RECOMMENDATION: Adults - ADVISABLE

AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH

Bezemek follows the course of John Wesley Powell’s expedition along the Green River and into the Colorado River through Wyoming, Utah, and Arizona.  This is a practical guide to re-creating the same trip, in its whole, in multi-day stretches, or smaller day trips. An in-depth look at each stretch of the rivers, the logistics of paddling them, and then a bit of history from Powell’s journey.  

If you know someone who is an avid paddler, this is a must have guide book.  I can see these spawning many dreamtrips and perhaps just as many actual journeys.  I know I am not a river rat, but even I was spurred to look up guides who take tours through different stretches of the route!  I showed the historic bits to our Utah History teachers, but they said they are actually took specific and detailed to be useful in the 7th grade classroom.

Cindy, Middle School Librarian, MLS