Never Turn Back
The Life of Whitewater Pioneer WALT BLACKADAR
Reviews
Los Angeles Daily News gives Never Turn Back their highest rating for a book: Four Stars. "It's the best thing to come across this reviewer's desk in recent memory" Brett Pauly, LA Daily News
"Bully for Watters!" San Francisco Chronicle
"Magnificent . . . told with sparkling clarity . . . truly inspirational."
William Bushnell, Eclectic Book Reviews of the Library Research Associates, New York
"This is a rare book, intelligently and honestly written, an entertaining and thought-provoking biography of a hero."
Liam Guilar, Out There, Australia's Premier Outdoor Magazine.
"A triumph! I couldn't put it down." Jerry Dixon, river guide, author, teacher, and Alaska's Christa McAuliffe Fellow from Seward, Alaska
"A work of art. It almost reads like fiction, yet it is all fact."
Barb Wright, 1967 World Whitewater Champion, Missoula, Montana
"I found the book riveting."
John Gastineau, North Carolina, NEVER TURN BACK reviewed on the Internet
"Packed with action and real life adventure."
Diane Donovan, The Bookwatch, Midwest Book Reviews
"The story is told brilliantly." Rocky Barker, Letters from the West
"Uncommonly well-written and well edited."
Eric Evans, Writer, Book Critic & National Whitewater Kayak Champion, Putney, Vermont
"Watters has created a book that reads more like a novel than a biography." Eugene Buchanan, Editor, Paddler Magazine
"Watters captures a surprising tenderness and depth to Blackadar. I guarantee you'll come away from reading this book with a lot of smiles and laughter and a contagious feeling that life is worth living to the fullest." Doug Ammons, American Whitewater |
