The Thompson River guide book by Bernie Fandrich, whose family operates the Kumsheen River Rafting Resort in Lytton, was featured on the Rick Mercer Show in 2013. A former university instructor and co-author of an earlier Thompson River guidebook, Fandrich is a pioneer of the whitewater rafting industry in Canada, having started Bernie's Raft Rides on the Thompson River in 1973. British Columbia's Majestic Thompson River: Kilometre x Kilometre Guide, Events, Tales (Nicomen House / Sandhill $29.95) is for rafters, kayakers, anglers and anyone travelling alongside the river that was named by Simon Fraser for David Thompson. m978-0-9917345-0-4

BOOKS:

Rafting in B.C. (Hancock House, 1984). With Doug VanDine

British Columbia's Majestic Thompson River: Kilometre x Kilometre Guide, Events, Tales (Nicomen House / Sandhill 2013) $29.95 978-0-9917345-0-4

[BCBW 2013]