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Pushing the River with Frank Bures
Pushing the River with Frank Bures
Author Frank Bures joins us on the podcast to discuss his compelling new book, Pushing the River: An Epic Battle, a Lost History, a Near Death, and Other True Canoeing Stories. Frank shares riveting tales from a century of canoe racing, including the forgotten history of the Paul Bunyan Canoe Derby—a grueling 450-mile race on the Upper Mississippi that changed modern canoeing forever. The conversation takes a personal turn as Frank recounts his own harrowing rescue on the Mississippi an...