About Books by Sam
Brief Bio
Sam Moses is the author of Fast Guys, Rich Guys and Idiots, the acclaimed racedriving memoir; At All Costs, the gripping account of a Mediterranian naval battle that turned the tide of WW2; and It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This, a heartfelt parenting memoir. His latest book is River Without a Cause, the cautionary tale of a whitewater expedition following Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of the Amazon's River of Doubt, with a treacherous side trip exposing mahogany raiding in Indigenous territory. A former senior writer for Sports Illustrated, Sam began writing as a U.S. Navy Seaman on a cruiser engaged in shore bombardment of Vietnam, long letters home. Today he lives on a remote beach in way west Bali, where he bodyboards, wave kayaks, and surfskis. He's currently working on the memoir Paradise My Ass.
River Without a Cause
Along with 17 men and 2 women, Sam Moses descended nearly 500 miles of extreme whitewater into the dark heart of the Amazon. Their Rio Roosevelt Expedition followed Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 wake on the "River of Doubt," now named after him, guided by two Cinta Larga chiefs--who, between rapids, tell the tragic story of their tribe. After the wildest whitewater is past, Sam travels with the chiefs to their village, where he goes on a hallucinogenic trip and uncovers massive mahogany raiding from the Amazon rainforest.
River Without a Cause is a page-turning and cautionary tale that blends history, adventure, exploration, folly … and doubt. (foto credit Mark Greenberg)
It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This
It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This is a heartfelt parenting memoir by a guy who waited until he was 48 and 50 to have two children, boys that he raised mostly as a single dad. It comes from a million-word journal, in which he documented every little hilarity and more.
Fast Guys, Rich Guys, and Idiots Remastered
Revised version of the epic 1983 racedriving odyssey on the border of obsession. Includes insights from legendary drivers from that time.