River Odyssey

Author : Bill Porter
Publisher : Chin Music Press Inc.
ISBN 13 : 098876931X
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yellow River Odyssey written by Bill Porter and published by Chin Music Press Inc.. This book was released on 2014-06-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Porter is the ideal travel companion. His depth of knowledge of Chinese history and culture is unparalleled. His wit is ever-present. And his keen eye for the telling detail consistently reminds us that China is not what you think it is. Yellow River Odyssey, already a best-seller in China, reveals a complex, fascinating, contradictory culture like never before.

Author : Ben McGrath
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0451494016
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Riverman written by Ben McGrath and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This quietly profound book belongs on the shelf next to Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild.” —The New York Times The riveting true story of Dick Conant, an American folk hero who, over the course of more than twenty years, canoed solo thousands of miles of American rivers—and then disappeared near the Outer Banks of North Carolina. This book “contains everything: adventure, mystery, travelogue, and unforgettable characters” (David Grann, best-selling author of Killers of the Flower Moon). For decades, Dick Conant paddled the rivers of America, covering the Mississippi, Yellowstone, Ohio, Hudson, as well as innumerable smaller tributaries. These solo excursions were epic feats of planning, perseverance, and physical courage. At the same time, Conant collected people wherever he went, creating a vast network of friends and acquaintances who would forever remember this brilliant and charming man even after a single meeting. Ben McGrath, a staff writer at The New Yorker, was one of those people. In 2014 he met Conant by chance just north of New York City as Conant paddled down the Hudson, headed for Florida. McGrath wrote a widely read article about their encounter, and when Conant's canoe washed up a few months later, without any sign of his body, McGrath set out to find the people whose lives Conant had touched--to capture a remarkable life lived far outside the staid confines of modern existence. Riverman is a moving portrait of a complex and fascinating man who was as troubled as he was charismatic, who struggled with mental illness and self-doubt, and was ultimately unable to fashion a stable life for himself; who traveled alone and yet thrived on connection and brought countless people together in his wake. It is also a portrait of an America we rarely see: a nation of unconventional characters, small river towns, and long-forgotten waterways.

Author : Gerald N. Callahan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book River Odyssey written by Gerald N. Callahan and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: River Odyssey is a collection of essays and poems, but it is one story - an intimate story about human time and the Colorado Plateau. This is a story about time alone and time on foot in the American West.

Author : Stephen John Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zambezi Odyssey written by Stephen John Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Erskine Clarke
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN 13 : 0465002722
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book By the Rivers of Water written by Erskine Clarke and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a portrait of an early nineteenth-century missionary couple who worked to overturn slavery in Liberia, where conflicts between settlers and natives forced them to return to a war-stricken U.S. and make a tragic decision.

Author : Geraldine Ellis Watson
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574411608
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflections on the Neches written by Geraldine Ellis Watson and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Having been a plant ecologist and park ranger for the US National Park Service, Watson has now returned to her native east Texas and settled in her private nature preserve. She documents a voyage (accompanied by her old blind dog) down the river Neches River, called Snow River by natives. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : David E. Wagner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Powder River Odyssey written by David E. Wagner and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The entry for September 8, 1865, is terse: “We marched and fought over 15 miles today.” With these few words civilian military engineer Lyman G. Bennett characterized the experience of the 1,400 men of the Powder River Expedition’s Eastern Division as they trudged through largely unexplored territory and faced off with American Indians determined to keep their hunting grounds. David E. Wagner’s Powder River Odyssey: Nelson Cole’s Western Campaign of 1865 tells the story of a largely forgotten campaign at the pivotal moment when the Civil War ended and the Indian wars captured national attention. The expedition’s mission seemed simple: punish the bands of Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho that had attacked white emigrants and commercial traffic moving west along the Oregon Trail. But the army’s western command failed to appreciate either the resolve of their enemies or the difficulties of the terrain. Cole’s men, ill-provisioned from the outset, began to die of scurvy two months into the campaign and contemplated mutiny. Bennett’s previously unpublished journal and other primary sources clarify and correct previous accounts of the expedition. Fifteen detailed maps reflect the author’s intimate knowledge of the topography along the expedition’s route. Wagner’s documentary account reveals in stark detail the difficulties inherent in the army’s attempt to pacify the American West.

Author : Clyde Ray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Across the Dark River written by Clyde Ray and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kim Trevathan
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572335301
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coldhearted River written by Kim Trevathan and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coldhearted River recounts the canoe odyssey of Kim Trevathan and photographer Randy Russell down the Cumberland River-almost 700 miles-from Harlan, Kentucky, through Middle Tennessee and Nashville, then back into western Kentucky, where it spills into the Ohio. Entertaining and nostalgic, Coldhearted River will put readers at the bow of Trevathan and Russell's journey as the river controlled it-at its own pace, sometimes slow, sometimes fast and turbulent, but never dull, and never disappointing. Book jacket.

Author : Hope Irvin Marston
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Salmon River Odyssey written by Hope Irvin Marston and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing and revealing look at the historical development of Pulaski, New York, and the people who guided it into the twenty-first century.