Bridget Crocker Books In Order

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Bridget Crocker is an American published author who has experience as an explorer and a guide.

Bridget is a leading whitewater explorer and has worked as a river guide. Now she writes adventure memoirs for life travelers who are going in new directions in their lives and relationships. Her writing transports the reader to different locations that are filled with realistic characters with flaws overcoming adversity.

She is a survivor of trauma and looks through themes of recovery in her work, featuring the ability to overcome multi-generational cycles and racism and sexism in the outdoor industry. Through her work as a speaker, a writer, and a leader of women’s empowerment river workshops, the author assists others with having a stronger connection to the natural world as well as finding the strength to work through and navigate obstacles both on the river and away from it.

She has an adventure travel background that can be paired with formal studies in anthropology and Native American studies. These have helped form her ability to be able to put in the natural and cultural spirit of different landscapes into her writing. Crocker has graduated from the University of Montana in Missoula and has a degree in English Literature from Montana State University, Bozeman.

The author is an alumnus of the Book Passage Travel Writing and Photography Conference as well as the Livingston Writer’s Workshop. She has had her work featured in such magazines as Men’s Journal, Westways, National Geographic Adventure, Trail Runner, Outside, Paddler, and Vela, as well as others.

Crocker has also been a writer for the outdoor clothing company Patagonia, a position that she has held for nearly two decades. Bridget is also a contributing author to the Lonely Planet guidebooks, as well as Travel Anthology and The Best Women’s Travel Writing series from Travelers’ Tales.

When she was younger growing up in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on the banks of Snake River, the author developed a relationship with nature and water that is featured at the center of her writing. She started guiding on the Snake and has been the guide for many remote river expeditions that have been taken down some of the grandest river canyons in the world in places such as Peru, Chile, the Philippines, Zambia, Ethiopia, Costa Rica, the western United States and India.

The River’s Daughter is the debut novel from Bridget Crocker. If you are a fan of memoirs or just love to find out more about people’s lives (or have an avid interest in river rafting), this is a great book to check out!

This is an inspiring memoir from an internationally renowned whitewater rafting guide, where she talks about how to overcome hardship and how she came into her own through the relationship that she has with the rivers she has known.

When she was young, Bridget’s parents split up by going through a terrible divorce. After that, she moved along with her mother from California to Wyoming, to live in a trailer park that was settled on the banks of the Snake River. She had a nice childhood with a new stepfather that she cared about and a baby brother, with the river to keep her company.

Then her mother goes through an extreme personality change that appears to take place overnight. She then leaves her husband for an eco-warrior type of guy and a new lifestyle that is totally radical. Bridget’s entire world turns upside down seemingly overnight and without a trace of warning. She went back to California to live with her father who was known for being explosive, but his violence ends up sending her back to live in Wyoming.

With all of this going on, the river became one of the most constant and nurturing influences that Bridget had. It assisted her in learning the resilience that she needed, strength that would come in handy in her journey to overcome sexual assault as well as betrayals that were going on that were done by those who were close to her. It also helped her to learn that she could trust her intuition and it helped her embrace the strength that she had as a woman.

Over time, when she got older, she grew to become a world-class whitewater rafting guide. She would take voyagers on expeditions that were on the Snake as well as the Salmon, the Kern, and the Zambezi Rivers. Ultimately, the relationship that she has with the rivers that she got to now would help her to reunite with her family once more. From there she would work with them to overcome the cycles over generations of trauma, poverty, and abuse.

In this story where a young woman not only finds hope but feels like she belongs in a life outdoors, Crocker takes the reader along on an adventure already lived, sometimes on the water, and sometimes not. It shows others a new way of experiencing the world through rivers, which can be navigated and guide us. Check out a fresh new voice in adventure writing by reading this book!