Richard Bangs' Adventures with Purpose Dispatches from the Front Lines of Earth

Running such wild rivers as the crocodile-infested Tekaze in Ethiopia, Richard Bangs used to lived for the adrenalin, for the rush of reveling in the misery of hardship and sidestepping death around every bend. Now a respected conservationist, he still travels to demanding exotic environments, but with a new, more sober objective: he wants to save these special places. Bangs' personal experiences of "witnessing many special places preserved and lost" led him to writeAdventures with Purpose,and the book follows the author to Bosnia, Libya, Panama, the American West, Rwanda, Thailand, and more as he seeks out disappearing cultures, peoples, habitats, and ecosystems particularly rivers so that he can show readers that the loss of these special places will be a catastrophe. Written in the vivid, intimate style that made his earlier books both critical and commercial successes,Richard Bangs' Adventures with Purposeis an unforgettable composite portrait of a world in peril and an inspiring guide to rescuing it.Bangs, Richard is the author of 'Richard Bangs' Adventures with Purpose Dispatches from the Front Lines of Earth', published 2007 under ISBN 9780897327350 and ISBN 0897327357.