TRAVEL BOOK REVIEW
Richard Bangs' Adventures With Purpose
The new book is a perfect guide for the truly out-there traveler.
Bangs, a prolific journalist and founding partner of the Mountain Travel Sobek adventure travel firm, has lived every adventure traveler's dream since the early 1970s.
He has led first descents of 35 rivers around the world, trekked in deserts and climbed mountains. His latest book recounts not only his experiences, but what has happened to some of these treasured places.
Richard Bangs' Adventures With Purpose: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Earth / Menasha Ridge Press, $16.95 (ISBN: 978--0-89732-736-7)
 This hotel, which dates to 1921, has 39 rooms and commanding perch by a big river. |
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