My debut memoir, The River’s Daughter (out June 3 from Spiegel & Grau), is the story of how my relationship with wild rivers helped me to heal from a troubled upbringing. As a child, I sought refuge in the cottonwood forest by the Snake River behind the trailer park where I grew up in Jackson Hole, Wyo.

It was through my relationship with rivers that I became a leading international whitewater river guide and went from guiding on the Snake to running one of the biggest whitewater rivers in the world — Africa’s Zambezi. Rivers led me to travel and see through a different cultural point of view, and they also helped me to heal and reclaim my place in the world.

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