Richard Bangs - Adventure Travel expert, river explorer, editor-at-large for Expedia.com and author of The Lost River A Memoir of Life, Death, and Transformation on Wild Water (Sierra Club Books, Random House) is a founding partner of SOBEK Expeditions, now Mountain Travel*SOBEK, the adventure-travel firm. His numerous magazine articles and eleven books also include Rivergods and Riding the Dragon's Back. For more on his adventures and adventure travel, visit http://www.mungopark.com/ , http://www.Expedia.com/  and http://www.mtsobek.com/ 

The Lost River A Memoir of Life, Death, and 
Transformation on Wild Water

Richard Bangs
(Sierra Club Books, Random House)

The publisher, Sierra Club Books , August 9, 1999
GREAT REVIEWS OF "THE LOST RIVER" 
"With straightforward storytelling, Bangs recounts a nearly 30-year obsession with rafting some of the swiftest, most dangerous waters on earth...Bangs tells his tale with the ease of a worldly relative who swoops in for Thanksgiving dinner and regales the table with stories that keep everyone's attention. Readers will especially enjoy the descriptions of Africa in which Bangs makes both the water and its wildlife bristle with peril..." --PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY

"Bangs's writing effectively captures the thrills, chills, and spills that make rafting such a popular, albeit sometimes dangerous, recreation. Highly recommended--" --LIBRARY JOURNAL

"It is persuasive, humorous, terrifying, and quite moving--a fine and essential addition to the growing body of adventure literature. One reads and feels the need to abandon it all and, like Huck, head downriver." --AMERCIAN WAY 

The publisher, Sierra Club Books , August 16, 1999
MORE GREAT REVIEWS! 
"High adventure abounds in this book, but Bangs, in addition to writing brilliantly about dealing with whitewater and crocodile attacks, also does a superb job of describing the less glamorous side of things." --DENVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS