The Very Hard Way Bert Loper and the Colorado River By Brad Dimock Signed!!

2007 trade paperback, signed

Very Good Condition

Grand Canyon History

The Very Hard Way: Bert Loper and the Colorado River by Brad Dimock is a biography of Bert Loper, a legendary, self-taught river runner who spent his life navigating the Colorado River, finding solace and meaning in its canyons after a difficult life as a miner and laborer. Published in 2007, the book details Loper's life, from his impoverished beginnings to his death at the oars of his boat in a Grand Canyon rapid at age 80, and is considered a definitive history of early river running.