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Bruce H. Cline

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in Enid, OK, The United States

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Memoir, Poetry, Nonfiction

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Names as one of Book Authority's Best Rafting Books of all-time was the author's Grand Canyon soloing memoir: Grand Distraction, Alone & Upside Down in the Grand Canyon. Bruce is a longtime whitewater boater. While still an undergraduate student, he and a partner started a small rafting outfitting company specializing in one- and two-day paddle trips on New Mexico’s Rio Grande and Rio Chama, and Colorado’s Arkansas River. He later taught whitewater rafting at both the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and San Juan College in Farmington (NM) for a combined total of about twenty years. In 1991 Bruce took his first trip through the Grand Canyon with five friends. His first Grand Canyon solo was in 2001 after returning to the Southwest fo ...more

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	Grand Distraction: Alone & Upside Down in the Grand Canyon 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grand Canyon Boating in Verse: Volume I it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Very Short Grand Canyon stories, bad jokes, & profundities…: Volume I 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Never Boat Alone, a Guide to Solo Boating the Colorado River Through Grand Canyon it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grand Canyon Boating in Verse: Volume II it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grand Canyon Boating in Verse: Volume III it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grand Canyon Boating in Verse Vol II: Volume II it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Guide to Solo Boating the Grand Canyon: Revised edition it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	River Runners' Poems & Mini-Stories it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Guide to Solo Boating the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon: Never Boat Alone it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Bruce Cline rated a book it was amazing The Brendan Voyage: Sailing to America in a Leather Boat to Prove the Legend of the Irish Sailor Saints (Modern Library Exploration) by Tim Severin	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A truly amazing and breathtakingly dangerous undertaking. This is a story of creativity in designing and building a boat from materials that many felt would be totally inadequate for the task of sailing the north Atlantic, of finding courageous and s ...more
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And interesting look at what the author calls Longstreet’s Charge — what he believes is a more accurate descriptor. He makes a rational explanation for why the Confederate advance was actually well-considered if not brilliant and not the “destined fo ...more
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Nothing controversial in this brief overview, but it’s hard to give much credence to a book whose major source is Wikipedia.
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Nothing controversial in this brief overview, but it’s hard to give much credence to a book whose major source is Wikipedia.
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