Sandi Toksvig travels downstream with Robert Twigger who has navigated his way over the Rocky Mountains in a canoe made the traditional native way out of birch bark.Ìý He followed the route of Alexander McKenzie the first European to cross the continent of North America.
Canoe guide Peter Knowles describes his kayaking journeys along some of the great rivers of the world from the Ganges to the Zambezi.
Sandi is also joined by science journalist Fred Pearce to assess the worrying implications for rivers as our ever increasing thirst for water means more and more of it is being siphoned off from the world's waterways.Ìý Will the rivers run dry?
Presented by Sandi Toksvig
Ìýis a writer and traveller.Ìý His journey across the Rockies was done over three summers. His companions constantly changed as they hurt themselves or dropped out for one reason or another. His book Voyageur recounts his journey from Fort Mackay in Alberta Canada (due north of Edmonton and Calgary) on the edge of the plains of Saskatchewan , up the Peace River through the Rockies and down the other side to the Pacific.
Voyageur - Across the Rocky Mountains in a birch bark canoe
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 0297829815
The Journals of Alexander Mackenzie - Exploring across Canada 1789 - 1793
Alexander Mackenzie
Publisher: Narrative Press
ISBN: 1589760360Ìý
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Ìý Peter Knowles has been canoeing for 30 years.Ìý His first big trip was down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in 1973.Ìý He is the author of many guidebooks to canoeing and rafting down big rivers all over the world: the Himalayas, the Alps, the Rockies (down the Fraser River to Vancouver) and the Massif Central amongst many other places.
White Water South Alps: 55 Classic Runs for Kayakers and Rafters in France and North West Italy
Publisher: Rivers Publishing (Surrey)
ISBN: 0951941372
White Water Massif Central
Publisher: Rivers Publishing (Surrey)
ISBN: 0951941364
White Water Nepal (Second Edition)
Peter Knowles, Dave Allardice
Publisher: Rivers Publishing (Surrey)
ISBN: 095194133X
Fred Pearce is a science journalist and writer specializing in environmental and development issues.Ìý He is Environment Consultant ofÌý and was the UK Environment Journalist of the Year 2001.Ìý His interest in rivers and the water started in the early 90s when he worked on writing about dams.Ìý He had been awarded a grant to study the Mekong River. Chinese dams further upstream were beginning to affect the behaviour of the river in Indochina.Ìý
Ìý When the Rivers Run Dry: What Happens When Our Water Runs Out?
Publisher: Eden Books, Transworld
ISBN: 1903919576
The Dammed: Rivers, Dams and the Coming World Water Crisis
Publisher: The Bodley Head Ltd
ISBN: 0370316096Ìý
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PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES
Sandi Toksvig: The daughter of a foreign correspondent, Sandi has been travelling all her life more info
John McCarthy is a widely travelled journalist and presenter with a particular interest in the Middle East.
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