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Journey of a River Walker

Author : Ray Whaley
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813065143
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Journey of a River Walker written by Ray Whaley and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Ray Whaley set out to accomplish his bucket-list goal of kayaking the length of the St. Johns River, it didn’t take long for him to realize he was in over his head. The longest river in Florida, stretching 310 miles between Vero Beach and Jacksonville, the St. Johns had been paddled in its entirety by only a handful of people. Whaley found himself blazing his own trail on an exciting and unexpected adventure. In Journey of a River Walker, Whaley tells the whole story of his experience, from his preparations beforehand to the techniques he learned along the way to his daily escapades and discoveries on the water. Learning from Whaley’s recommendations, along with his mistakes and close calls, readers will gain valuable knowledge that will help them in planning their own paddling trips. Whaley’s journey also highlights the delicate ecosystem of the river and the importance of conserving its environment, raising awareness of the fragile yet critical link between humans and nature. A volume in the series Wild Florida, edited by M. Timothy O’Keefe

America's Great River Journeys

Author : Tim Palmer
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847861732
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book America's Great River Journeys written by Tim Palmer and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspirational bucket list for anyone interested in rafting, kayaking, or canoeing—from armchair traveler to recreational paddler to hard-core white-water enthusiast. From the Penobscot to the Potomac, the New to the Suwannee, the Colorado to the Snake, America’s Great River Journeys entices people to experience America from its free-flowing waterways. Vivid descriptions of our nation’s fifty finest river trips are complete with stunning photos of each leg of each journey, an engaging narrative, and practical tips about the length of trips, seasonal preferences, difficulty of white water, joys of camping along the shores, availability of professional outfitters, and other details. Through beautiful photography and compelling writing, America’s Great River Journeys is a celebration of the best rivers for canoeing, kayaking, and rafting—from Alaska to Florida—along 7,000 miles of our nation’s spectacular waterways in twenty-eight states.

Tattie's River Journey

Author : Shirley Rousseau Murphy
Publisher : Methuen Childrens Books
ISBN 13 : 9780416454604
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book Tattie's River Journey written by Shirley Rousseau Murphy and published by Methuen Childrens Books. This book was released on 1983 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of Tattie whose house was washed down the river during a flood.

Hudson River Journey

Author : Joanne Michaels
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780881505948
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Hudson River Journey written by Joanne Michaels and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning photographic journey follows the path of the Hudson River from north to south, through the Catskills and the surrounding valley region, all the way to New York City.

Down the Wild Cape Fear

Author : Philip Gerard
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469602075
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Down the Wild Cape Fear written by Philip Gerard and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Down the Wild Cape Fear: A River Journey through the Heart of North Carolina

Journey on the James

Author : Earl Swift
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813937213
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Journey on the James written by Earl Swift and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2014-12-19 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its beginnings as a trickle of icy water in Virginia's northwest corner to its miles-wide mouth at Hampton Roads, the James River has witnessed more recorded history than any other feature of the American landscape -- as home to the continent's first successful English settlement, highway for Native Americans and early colonists, battleground in the Revolution and the Civil War, and birthplace of America's twentieth-century navy. In 1998, restless in his job as a reporter for the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, Earl Swift landed an assignment traveling the entire length of the James. He hadn't been in a canoe since his days as a Boy Scout, and he knew that the river boasts whitewater, not to mention man-made obstacles, to challenge even experienced paddlers. But reinforced by Pilot photographer Ian Martin and a lot of freeze-dried food and beer, Swift set out to immerse himself -- he hoped not literally -- in the river and its history. What Swift survived to bring us is this engrossing chronicle of three weeks in a fourteen-foot plastic canoe and four hundred years in the life of Virginia. Fueled by humor and a dauntless curiosity about the land, buildings, and people on the banks, and anchored by his sidekick Martin -- whose photographs accompany the text -- Swift points his bow through the ghosts of a frontier past, past Confederate forts and POW camps, antebellum mills, ruined canals, vanished towns, and effluent-spewing industry. Along the banks, lonely meadowlands alternate with suburbs and power plants, marinas and the gleaming skyscrapers of Richmond's New South downtown. Enduring dunkings, wolf spiders, near-arrest, channel fever, and twenty-knot winds, Swift makes it to the Chesapeake Bay. Readers who accompany him through his Journey on the James will come away with the accumulated pleasure, if not the bruises and mud, of four hundred miles of adventure and history in the life of one of America's great watersheds.

Along the Journey River

Author : Carole LaFavor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Along the Journey River written by Carole LaFavor and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the trail of sacred ceremonial objects stolen from the Minnesota Red Earth Reservation's Ojibwa tribe in Carole laFavor's fast Native-American lesbian mystery.

River of Mountains

Author : Peter Lourie
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815603160
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book River of Mountains written by Peter Lourie and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lourie completed his trip. It took him three weeks and marked the first time anyone has traveled from the source of the Hudson to the mouth in a single vessel. The Hudson proved to be a very changeable river. It includes seven locks and nine power dams. The northern half is a true river with strong current, but the lower half is tidal, a sunken river from the days of glaciers. In its first 165 miles, it drops more than 4,000 feet to Albany. The second half falls no more than a foot. Lourie's account of his trip is a fresh look at one of America's great and complex waterways, one of the few, in fact, that still contains its historical and biological species of fish. It is also the longest inland estuary in the world. Henry Hudson called it the "great river of the mountains." Nowadays, too often the Hudson is stereotyped as a ruined, polluted industrial river. Its glorious past is compared to its present neglect. In River of Mountains, Peter Lourie combines the Hudson's rich history and descriptions of some of the region's most impressive landscape with the residents of its mill towns, the loggers, commercial fishermen, and barge pilots-all of whom are proof that the river is still a thriving, vital waterway. So, come with Peter Lourie on his trip, come explore with him from a canoe one of this country's great rivers, join him in his wonderful adventure.

River

Author : Colin Fletcher
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804152438
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book River written by Colin Fletcher and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At age sixty-seven, Colin Fletcher, the guru of backpacking in America, undertook a rigorous six-month raft expedition down the full length of the Colorado River--alone. He needed "something to pare the fat off my soul...to make me grateful, again, for being alive." The 1,700 miles between the Colorado's source in Wyoming and its conclusion at Mexico's Gulf of California contain some of the most spectacular vistas on earth, and Fletcher is the ideal guide for the terrain. As his privileged companions, we travel to places like Disaster Falls and Desolation Canyon, observe beaver and elk, experience sandstorms and whitewater rapids, and share Fletcher's thoughts on the human race, the environment, and the joys of solitude.

The River at the Centre of the World

Author : Simon Winchester
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0140249125
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The River at the Centre of the World written by Simon Winchester and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1998-02-26 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mighty Yangtze splits China in two, between the wheat-growing North and the rice-growing South; almost 500 million people live and work along its banks. In this compelling book, award-winning writer Simon Winchester and his plucky companion Lily travel upstream all the way from bustling cosmopolitan Shanghai to Tibet, deeper and deeper into almost inaccessible territory and the hidden recesses of early Chinese history. Their 3,900-mile journey takes them past the magnificent Three Gorges, soon to be the site of the world's largest hydroelectric dam, through jungles, grasslands, high plains, polluted industrial landscapes and ice-covered mountain ranges. Winchester sketches in the background, describes a host of strange encounters and vividly reveals the harsh realities of today's China. There could be no more enthralling account of the greatest river on earth.

The Robber of Memories

Author : Michael Jacobs
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1847085903
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Robber of Memories written by Michael Jacobs and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running through the heart of Colombia is a river emblematic of the fascination and tragedy of South America, the Magdalena. Considered by some to be the most dangerous place in the world, travellers along the river - for centuries the only route into the vast South American interior - were at the mercy of tropical disease, dangerous animals and precarious barges. A third of the victims of 'la violencia', Colombia's period of civil conflict which began in the 1950s, ended up in its waters. Townships alongside it have experienced some of the worst massacres in South American history. In 2011, Michael Jacobs travelled its whole length to the river's source high up in Andean moorlands controlled by guerrillas. In spellbinding prose, he charts the dangers he negotiated - including a terrifying three day encounter with the FARC - while uncovering the river's history of pioneering explorations, environmental decline and political violence. As Jacobs delves into the history of destruction and decay along the river, he also makes a deeply personal exploration into memory and its loss: not far from the river's banks lies a group of townships with the highest incidence of early onset Alzheimer's in the world. Jacobs reflects on the lives of his father, and his mother - sufferers respectively from Alzheimer's and dementia - as he travels upstream towards what comes to seem like a heartland of mystery, magic and darkness.

Canyon Solitude

Author : Patricia McCairen
Publisher : Seal Press (CA)
ISBN 13 : 9781580050074
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Canyon Solitude written by Patricia McCairen and published by Seal Press (CA). This book was released on 1998 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author describes her experiences rafting down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon

Michigan's Looking Glass River

Author : Ted Reuschel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781943359936
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (599 download)

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Download or read book Michigan's Looking Glass River written by Ted Reuschel and published by . This book was released on 2018-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the intriguing story of a kayak journey down an historic Michigan river, blending a modern-day adventure with the history of the original native inhabitants, and the brave pioneers who followed the old but famous Indian trail from the young city of Detroit westward into an essential wilderness. It is a detailed yet narrative account of their trials and hardships in establishing homes, farms, and villages along the way. Much has changed, but much has not. How does such a relatively wild and little-known river as the Looking Glass still exist within just a few miles of the state capital at Lansing, Michigan? Today each of us can still enjoy the adventure and discovery that goes with floating upon its surface, as I did. This is the account of the Looking Glass River, both past and present.

Canoa

Author : Miguel A. Sagué-Machiran
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 149178895X
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book Canoa written by Miguel A. Sagué-Machiran and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-03-18 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author uses first-hand life experiences to lay bare enduring truths. Four remarkable stories of evolutionary change are woven into a single journey down the river of time; One, a vision-filled canoe trip through Pennsylvanias Allegheny Forest; Two, a dramatic sequence of dreams documenting the saga of an Indigenous Caribbean family; Three, the 260-century evolutionary trek of global humanity envisioned by ancient Native wisdom; Four, the authors personal 65 years of life experiences in the modern-day Taino Indigenous Resurgence movement.

Every Day The River Changes

Author : Jordan Salama
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1646221613
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Every Day The River Changes written by Jordan Salama and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exhilarating travelogue for a new generation about a journey along Colombia’s Magdalena River, exploring life by the banks of a majestic river now at risk, and how a country recovers from conflict. "Richly observed." —Liesl Schillinger, The New York Times Book Review An American writer of Argentine, Syrian, and Iraqi Jewish descent, Jordan Salama tells the story of the Río Magdalena, nearly one thousand miles long, the heart of Colombia. This is Gabriel García Márquez’s territory—rumor has it Macondo was partly inspired by the port town of Mompox—as much as that of the Middle Eastern immigrants who run fabric stores by its banks. Following the river from its source high in the Andes to its mouth on the Caribbean coast, journeying by boat, bus, and improvised motobalinera, Salama writes against stereotype and toward the rich lives of those he meets. Among them are a canoe builder, biologists who study invasive hippopotamuses, a Queens transplant managing a failing hotel, a jeweler practicing the art of silver filigree, and a traveling librarian whose donkeys, Alfa and Beto, haul books to rural children. Joy, mourning, and humor come together in this astonishing debut, about a country too often seen as only a site of war, and a tale of lively adventure following a legendary river.

River of Lakes

Author : Bill Belleville
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820342246
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book River of Lakes written by Bill Belleville and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First explored by naturalist William Bartram in the 1760s, the St. Johns River stretches 310 miles along Florida's east coast, making it the longest river in the state. The first "highway" through the once wild interior of Florida, the St. Johns may appear ordinary, but within its banks are some of the most fascinating natural phenomena and historic mysteries in the state. The river, no longer the commercial resource it once was, is now largely ignored by Florida's residents and visitors alike. In the first contemporary book about this American Heritage River, Bill Belleville describes his journey down the length of the St. Johns, kayaking, boating, hiking its riverbanks, diving its springs, and exploring its underwater caves. He rediscovers the natural Florida and establishes his connection with a place once loved for its untamed beauty. Belleville involves scientists, environmentalists, fishermen, cave divers, and folk historians in his journey, soliciting their companionship and their expertise. River of Lakes weaves together the biological, cultural, anthropological, archaeological, and ecological aspects of the St. Johns, capturing the essence of its remarkable history and intrinsic value as a natural wonder.

The Braided River

Author : Samrat Choudhury
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9390327598
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Braided River written by Samrat Choudhury and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brahmaputra is by some margin the largest river in India. After its confluence with the Ganga in Bangladesh, it becomes the largest in Asia. In The Braided River, journalist Samrat Choudhury sets out to follow its braided course from the edge of Tibet where it enters India down to where it meets the Ganga at a spot marked by the biggest red light district in Bangladesh. Along the way, he meets suspicious Indian spies, gets packed off on the back of a cement truck by soldiers, visit a shelter home for baby rhino and elephant orphans in Kaziranga, and hops from river island to riverside town meeting the locals. The tales of these encounters spice up a story that weaves in the history of the emergence of the border between India and China in Arunachal Pradesh, the formation of the Assamese identity -- a matter of great contemporary relevance owing to the National Register of Citizens and the Citizenship (Amendment) Act -- and the ecological challenges posed by proposed dams. This is a genre-bending book that touches upon several hot-button issues -- environmental, military and political -- as it blends travel, memoir and history with the present.