ABOUT
THE BOOK

In October 1928 one year after Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic, a pair of young newlyweds set out to run the rapids of the Grand Canyon in a home-made boat. Swept up by America’s obsession with feats of daring, Glen and Bessie Hyde hoped to set a record – she would be the first woman to run that treacherous stretch of the Colorado River. A month later, they failed to emerge from the canyon as expected.
Taking the known facts of Bessie and Glen Hyde’s story, and deftly braiding an account of their journey with Glen’s father’s desperate efforts to find them, Grand Ambition, is a meditation on the line between risk and recklessness, and a portrait of the passions of a young marriage.