The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
Book by Kevin Fedarko
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Oct 13, 2026
Chris MorganHOST
Mm.
Kevin FedarkoGUEST
It's a source of deep embarrassment and shame for me that I managed to write an entire book about Grand Canyon, a book called The Emerald Mile, which is about the Colorado River and my time there as a river guide.
Kevin FedarkoGUEST
And except for maybe two or three paragraphs, I never bothered anywhere in that book to acknowledge thousands of years prior to the arrival of people who look and sound like me, you know, a, a guy who's a descendant of white European settlers.
Chris MorganHOST
Mm.
Melissa SevignyGUEST
Um, uh, [laughs] one of the, one of the...
Melissa SevignyGUEST
A good piece of advice I got from Kevin Fedarko, who was very kind when I, I went to him early in this process to ask for some advice, and, um, he talked about just going around to every little library he could find and talking about The Emerald Mile when it came out.
Melissa SevignyGUEST
And so I, I took that advice and did something very similar and, you know, um, these days authors don't really get sent on book tours, so I scrapped together a little Colorado Plateau book tour and went to a bunch of tiny little libraries and started to talk, and it's really just kind of snowballed from there.
Melissa SevignyGUEST
I'm still getting invitations to speak.
Nina SimonGUEST
book? What is
Barbara PetersHOST
it called? A Walk in the Park or something? A Walk in the Park is the more recent, and the Emerald Mile is the first one.
Barbara PetersHOST
And there was another one that I can't remember the name of.
Barbara PetersHOST
Again, might have been Sisters, actually.