TY  - BOOK
AU  - Withers,Pam
TI  - First Descent
SN  - 9781770492578
U1  - F WIT 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - Tundra
KW  - Extreme sports
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Kayaks
KW  - Teenage boys
KW  - Paramilitary forces
KW  - Colombia
KW  - Canadian Author
N1  - Grade 7-8
Middle grade
N2  - Montana-born Tex dreams of following in his grandfather's footsteps and kayaking down one of the world's last unconquered wild rivers. When he finally gets enough sponsors, Rex heads to South America to tackle the river known as El Furioso. In Columbia he hires seventeen-year-old Myriam Calambás to be his guide. Myriam longs to go to a university, become a reporter, and tell the world what is happening to her world. Can the two avoid the clashes between the paramilitaries who protect the rich landowners and the guerrillas who are supposed to protect the poor? And can Tex achieve his dream?
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