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Brothers on the Bashkaus: A Siberian paddling adventure, by Eugene Buchanan
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Recent Praise for Brothers on the Bashkaus "A Class-V ride through both big waters and a fast-changing culture." -Jon Bowermaster, National Geographic Adventure author/adventurer "This is a book in which the author is on fire with his subject. Eugene Buchanan studies, chases, and pours down one of the world's wildest rivers in a journey sometimes terrifying, often chilling, but always mesmeric and drenched with resonance. The story is swiftly moving, yet it superbly delineates the cultural and political context out of which this expedition arose. Buchanan is a gifted narrator, with seeming total recall and a lucid candor and self-awareness, as well as a talent for painting topographical views of gorges and rapids that have an almost surreal power. Brothers on the Bashkaus is, in a fashion, an elegy for a lost moment of cultural and environmental first contact. It is a torrent of a book... Take the plunge!" -Richard Bangs, founding partner of Mountain Travel/Sobek, author of 11 books, including Mystery of the Nile, Adventures without End, The Lost River, River Gods, and Riding the Dragon's Back "Adventure paddling is fun enough, but it becomes epic, zany, and outrageous when it's set in the manic madness of modern Russia. Imagine Hunter S. Thompson-without the drugs-running Class VI. Can't conjure up the image? Sit down on a comfortable chair, get some raw pork fat for munchies, and read Eugene Buchanan's Brothers on the Bashkaus for a wild, hungry ride in improbable boats with a bunch of crazies. The book exposes the unadulterated spirit of whitewater adventure-stripped clean of all the fancy stuff, like paddles and lifejackets." -Jon Turk, author of In the Wake of the Jomon and Cold Oceans "Buchanan's blood is two parts river. This is a memorable tale of adventure, friendship, and a confluence, or collision, of cultures. Buchanan and his cohorts get tossed almost by happenstance onto the wildest of rivers in a land where the gear is homemade, local horsemen go crazy on strong tea, memorials to dead paddlers perch on the banks, and, as at an execution, nothing can happen until a last cigarette is smoked." -Peter Heller, author of Hell or High Water, The Dog Stars, The Painter and The Whale Warriors "Your fate is tied to strangers in a strange land in-strangest of all-a craft hewn from the forest primeval... a monster Siberian whitewater river before you. A reader could want for no better guide than Eugene Buchanan, an expert storyteller who knows firsthand that if you are good, lucky, and don't mind daily fat cubes, the best expeditions sometimes emerge out of the worst predicaments. Superb." -Todd Balf, author of The Last River and Comet: The Untold Story of Major Taylor and How He Beat the Color Line (Crown Publishing, 2007) "Eugene Buchanan's paddling expertise and sharp reportorial eye will sweep you breathlessly down one of the world's wildest, toughest, and most remote rivers, in company with the knights-errant of Siberian whitewater. A fascinating cultural and adventure read." -Peter Stark, author of The Last Breath and At the Mercy of the River
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About the Author
A former reporter for the Denver Business Journal and 14-year editor-in-chief of Paddler magazine, Eugene Buchanan has written about the outdoors for more than 25 years, from covering the X Games for ESPN.com to working for NBC at the Beijing Olympics. With freelance articles published in the New York Times, Men's Journal, Sports Afield, Outside, National Geographic Adventure, Forbes Life and other publications, his passion for traveling and writing has taken him to more than 30 countries on six continents. A Fellow member of the Explorer's Club and contributor to Men's Journal's The Great Life anthology, he spearheaded the Outdoor Industry Association's Outdoor Idols campaign, honoring teens' accomplishments in the outdoors. Brothers on the Bashkaus was first released by Fulcrum Publishing in 2007. His second book, Outdoor Parents, Outdoor Kids, was released by Heliconia Press in 2010, winning the gold medal from the Living Now Book Awards. He lives with his wife, Denise, and daughters, Brooke, 16, and Casey, 13, in Steamboat Springs, Colo., just a block away from the Yampa River.
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Product details
Paperback: 258 pages
Publisher: Recreation publishing inc (February 15, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0692615059
ISBN-13: 978-0692615058
Product Dimensions:
5 x 0.6 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.3 out of 5 stars
11 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#1,567,028 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Great book. The dog loved the first copy to "pieces"
This book seems to be written for a select audience. If you enjoy reading about the adventures of others, different cultures, or are just a mellow person pursuing the good life, you will probably enjoy this book. It hooked me even though the writing isn't going to win any awards. I bought it for someone who has worked for NOLS and lived in Boulder. It was just so what he would do. Good to know there are others out there like him.
It has been a long dry spell for armchair travel books on Russia. Certainly many such works have been published over the past decade. The problem is that most have been eminently missable.This book breaks that drought.You do not have to have an interest in kayaking, rafting or Class V rivers to enjoy Buchanan's account of four Americans' and ten Latvians' trip down one of Siberia's wildest rivers. You simply have to love a good travel story: plans gone awry, hilarious characters met on the road, the clash of cultures, nail-biting adventure and the thrill of new experiences.When the Americans are told to leave behind their custom-crafted raft (instead, they will build rafts from scratch at their drop-in point, with pontoons made from repurposed germ warfare suits - reuse is the Latvian team's specialty)... when they compare their smoothly stylish life jackets with the grotesque but eminently more effective homemade ones of their Latvian hosts (including one made with soccer balls)... when the hapless Americans bristle under the authoritarian food rationing of the mighty Olga... you almost wish you were along for the ride. Almost. For this crew of 14 will descend from high in the Altai mountains through some of the world's most treacherous rapids, on rafts made from trees they cut themselves, living off the land for over a month, paddling with homemade oars and eating all too much salo (pig fat).This journey is assuredly more enjoyable from an armchair and surely one of the best travel stories out of Russia in many many years. (Reviewed in Russian Life)
"When the language barrier could mean life or death, trust is essential..."Eugene and three white water companions are hyped up and on their way to Siberia to run a river with international cohorts. When they arrive they are greeted by three unknown Russian rafters who just seem to take over their lives. Communication is difficult, and at best, a bit of broken English is spoken.The group the Americans intended to meet is unavoidably detained by weather conditions, and is unable to participate. The Russians invite the Americans to join them on their trip down the Bashkaus River. When they are shown movies of the river, it is more dangerous than they had planned to run. Several of the rapids are class V and some class VI (extremely dangerous). After several unsuccessful attempts to contact their planned partners, the Americans decide to join the trip down the Bashkaus--a choice they later question on more than one occasion.Getting off to a "rough start" doesn't even describe the challenges they endure just trying to reach the drop-off point. Struggling with the language, unfamiliar customs, carrying their gear, and undependable transportation, are just the beginning.Finally they set off down the river on homemade Russian rafts. All team members are assigned responsibilities. Confidence between the teams is a bit unstable. But as they face the power of the Bashkaus, uniting for the good of the team, a brotherhood of the river starts to grow.When the common goal to best the Bashkaus becomes frightening, even terrifying at times, quick thinking and sharp minds are essential. The Americans experience the art of survival in a very different way while cooking, food rationing, foraging, and improvising with what is available. Everyone's knowledge and skills are respected and needed, each a valuable part of the whole. Friendship develops into a deep trust and when danger threatens they all pull together. Sleepless nights, hunger, bruises, pains, bugs, and fatigue are overcome by music, camaraderie and sheer will.Brothers on the Bashkaus is not only adventure at its finest, but an example of real friendships extending beyond international borders.Armchair Interviews says: The author is editor of Paddling Life Magazine and writes from many years of experience.
First things first - if you love paddling and adventure - you will enjoy this book. But there is so much more to the fabric of the story. We all hear about teamwork and "we need to be a team" whether it is in our work, school, sports team or even our communities. Buchanan has done a masterful job of describing real team and teamwork in action. This should be required reading for any business team, high school hockey club or any group on which the welfare of the individual rest on the welfare of the group (and whether we like to admit it or not, that really is how most organizations really work).Completely lacking judgmental tones, he weaves in rich descriptions of the team concept utilized by the Latvian rafters of which Buchanan and his group of American paddlers become a part of. Their survival depended upon it. Big water rafting is inherently dangerous in its own right, but the sheer scale and ferocity of the Bashkaus, and its location ensured that there was no safety net for the American adventurers or their hosts. Although the cultural contrasts are sharp it is the human spirit for adventure, survival and accomplishment that comes forth and formed a solid team, even with a significant language barrier. If this group of real life adventurers had practiced individualism, fractured leadership, disparate objectives, and hubris over informed judgment, then I am sure no one would be around to have written this story.If you are in a team, or need to get groups working together, get everyone to read the book and have a discussion about what it is to be a team - I'll bet your stumbling blocks will seem mild in comparison to what the Bashkaus dishes out.
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