Exploring the Great Rivers of North America

by Kim Heacox, K.M. Kostyal, Paul Robert Walker

Embark on a unique journey of varied personal adventures and historical highlights, a book that's every bit as engrossing, enlightening, and enchanting as the dozen enduring rivers it explores. Accompanied by dramatic photographs and period illustrations, Exploring the Great Rivers of North America chronicles how our continent's magnificent waterways have molded human history, interacting with conquistadores and colonists, trappers and explorers, steamboat pilots and God Rush prospectors, Native Americans and Amish farmers, and many, many others.

Genres: Travel

200 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Kim Heacox is the author of more than a dozen books, five of them published by National Geographic.

He’s won the National Outdoor Book Award twice, first in 2015 for his novel Jimmy Bluefeather, the only work of fiction in 25 years to win the award. And again in 2020 for his memoir, The Only Kayak, as an “outdoor classic” (originally published in 2005).

He writes opinion-editorials for The Guardian in celebration and defense of the natural world, and lives in a small town in coastal Alaska with his wife, Melanie, where they support the emerging Glacier Bay Leadership Program within Tidelines Institute. Learn more about him at www.kimheacox.com and download the Jimmy Bluefeather book club guide at westmarginpress.com.