Stuart Page Stegner is the son of novelist Wallace Stegner. He was a novelist, essayist, and historian who wrote extensively about the American West.
<br> Each blistering chronicle of a cathartically death-defying river journey in a heartbreakingly beautiful or bruised place is an occasion for brusque history lessons, self-deprecating hilarity, and flinty ruminations on our abuse of western lands . . . this rapids rider dispenses tonic straight talk and irreverent humor from the eco-front. -- Booklist