# Running the Amazon

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- Book: [Running the Amazon](https://www.bookquiver.com/joe-kane/running-the-amazon) ([Running the Amazon.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/joe-kane/running-the-amazon.md))
- Authors: [Joe Kane](https://www.bookquiver.com/joe-kane)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7972-902-0
- Pages: 320
- Published: 1990-05-12
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The voyage began in the lunar terrain of the Peruvian Andes, where coca leaf is the only remedy against altitude sickness. It continued down rapids so fierce they could swallow a raft in a split second....