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Wickliffe W. Walker

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Lieutenant Colonel Wickliffe "Wick" Walker (United States Army, retired) is a graduate of Dartmouth College, the John F. Kennedy School for Special Warfare, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. He represented the United States in international whitewater canoe competition at the World Championships of 1965, 1967, and 1971, and at the 1972 Summer Olympics at Munich. A National Geographic Explorer and Fellow of the Explorers Club, he has led whitewater expeditions around the world, including to Bhutan in 1981 and to Tibet in 1998. His current narrative nonfiction project is Torrents As Yet Unknown: Daring Whitewater Ventures into the World's Great River Gorges.

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	Courting the Diamond Sow: Kayaking Tibet's Forbidden River 3.91 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2000 — 5 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
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Torrents Update #12

June 2023 Update #12 “Ready to Road Trip”

This will be the twelfth update on my journey writing Torrents As Yet Unknown: Daring Whitewater Ventures into the World’s Great River Gorges.
I mentioned in my last post that, with Torrents now in the hands of the printers, marketers, publicists, and others at Steerforth and Penguin Random House, I’ve gone from years of micro-managing every phrase and punc Read more of this blog post »

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The Art of Living Dangerously: True Stories from a Life on the Edge

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