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Very Hard Way : Bert Loper and the Colorado River by Brad Dimock (2007, Perfect)

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PublisherFretwater Press

ISBN-101892327694

ISBN-139781892327697

eBay Product ID (ePID)62090015

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Book TitleVery Hard Way : Bert Loper and the Colorado River

Number of Pages457 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicBoating, Water Sports, General

Publication Year2007

IllustratorYes

GenreSports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorBrad Dimock

FormatPerfect

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight23.9 Oz

Item Length8.9 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2006-911324

TitleLeadingThe

SynopsisThis work is a linguistic description of an obsolescent dialect of Neo-Aramaic. The dialect was originally spoken by Jews residing in the village of Am dya (a.k.a Amadiya) in modern-day northern Iraq. No native speakers of this dialect remain in situ. They, along with the other Jewish communities of the Kurdish region, had all left by 1951. The majority went to Israel, where their numbers have dwindled. The dialect has not been passed on to the next generation, whose native tongue is Modern Israeli Hebrew. There remain but a handful of competent native speakers, whose speech has often been corrupted to varying degrees by exposure to Hebrew and other closely-related Neo-Aramaic dialects., Bert Loper, the Grand Old Man of the Colorado, was born the day Major Powell discovered the confluence of the San Juan and Colorado in 1869. He died just days after the first motorboat had passed through Grand Canyon. He knew every river runner in between, and by the time of his death at 80 years old, had run more of the Colorado than anyone. But it was never easy--orphaned an abused, Loper had to make his way along the bottom of society, often as a hard-rock miner, coal miner or lonely placer miner on a gravel bar. But in the Colorado River he found inspiration, and he died at the oars of his own wooden boat in a major Grand Canyon Rapid. Loper is truly mythic, and his is the story of the Colorado.

LC Classification NumberGV782.42.L67D46 2007