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Author : H. Roger Corbett
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)
Download or read book Virginia Whitewater written by H. Roger Corbett and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jay Young
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625842287
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)
Download or read book Whitewater Rafting on West Virginia's New & Gauley Rivers written by Jay Young and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-14 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A certain mixture of whimsy and derring-do is required to shove off down (or up) the New or Gauley River with scant protection aside from a helmet, life vest and ones compatriots. Its a choice that could be so easily avoided, but that wouldnt make sense to the proud and colorful characters who have long been shooting these rapids, some of the most popular and treacherous in the country. Here, Jay Young, a raft guide turned writer, leads readers through the local lore and history of the rivers, wheremuch to the delight of those brave enough to face these rapidsthe ordinary almost never occurs.
Author : Earl Swift
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813937213
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)
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.
Author : Joseph J. Dirzulaitis
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)
Download or read book Water Resources of Virginia written by Joseph J. Dirzulaitis and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nathan Clifford Grover
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hydrography of Virginia written by Nathan Clifford Grover and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Virginia E. Causey
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820372099
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)
Download or read book Red Clay, White Water, and Blues written by Virginia E. Causey and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Columbus is the third-largest city in Georgia, and Red Clay, White Water, and Blues is its first comprehensive history. Virginia E. Causey documents the city’s founding in 1828 and brings its story to the present, examining the economic, political, social, and cultural changes over the period. It is the first history of the city that analyzes the significant contributions of all its citizens, including African Americans, women, and the working class. Causey, who has lived and worked in Columbus for more than forty years, focuses on three defining characteristics of the city’s history: the role that geography has played in its evolution, specifically its location on the Chattahoochee River along the Fall Line, making it an ideal place to establish water-powered textile mills; the fact that the control of city’s affairs rested in the hands of a particular business elite; and the endemic presence of violence that left a “bloody trail” throughout local history. Causey traces the life of Columbus: its founding and early boom years; the Civil War and its aftermath; conflicts as a modern city emerged in the first half of the twentieth century; racial tension and economic decline in the mid-to-late 1900s; and rebirth and revival of the city in the twenty-first century. Peppered throughout are compelling anecdotes about the city’s most colorful characters, including Sol Smith and His Dramatic Company, music phenom Blind Tom Wiggins, suffragist Augusta Howard, industrialist and philanthropist G. Gunby Jordan, peanut purveyor Tom Huston, blueswoman Ma Rainey, novelist Carson McCullers, and insurance magnate John Amos.
Author : Paul Davidson
Publisher : Menasha Ridge Press
ISBN 13 : 0897325451
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book Canoeing & Kayaking West Virginia written by Paul Davidson and published by Menasha Ridge Press. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Began as a collective effort by members of the West Virginia Wildwater Association in 1965, Wildwater West Virginia emerged as the preeminent guide to whitewater in West Virginia. Now part of a new series and a new name to boot, A Canoeing Guide to West Virginia continues this legacy, guiding boaters of all abilities to over 120 of West VirginiaÕs rivers, creeks and streams. The result of combined knowledge of hundreds of paddlers, this book gives paddlers all the information they need to paddle rivers safely and confidently: At a glance information helps boaters pick rivers to match their ability and current weather conditions, while river descriptions, gauge and shuttle route information provide additional critical information. More than an encyclopedia of mountain rivers and hydrologic data, Whitewater West Virginia is also a collection of experiences and an introduction to some of the most amazing geography in the east. Destined to ride in the dry bags and glove compartments of paddlers nationwide, this book continues to set the standard for all paddling guidebooks. Some of the rivers profiled include: Gauley River, North Branch of the Potomac, New River, Cheat River, Tygart River, Waites Run, Red Run, Roaring Creek, and Keeney Creek.
Author : Ed Grove
Publisher : Howling Wolf Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780963457516
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)
Download or read book Classic Virginia Rivers written by Ed Grove and published by Howling Wolf Publishing. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jay Young
Publisher : Sports
ISBN 13 : 9781609492465
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)
Download or read book Whitewater Rafting on West Virginia's New & Gauley Rivers written by Jay Young and published by Sports. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A certain mixture of whimsy and derring-do is required to shove off down (or up) the New or Gauley River with scant protection aside from a helmet, life vest and one's compatriots. It's a choice that could be so easily avoided, but that wouldn't make sense to the proud and colorful characters who have long been shooting these rapids, some of the most popular and treacherous in the country. Here, Jay Young, a raft guide turned writer, leads readers through the local lore and history of the rivers, where--much to the delight of those brave enough to face these rapids--the ordinary almost never occurs.
Author : Kathryn P. Sevebeck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)
Download or read book Virginia's Waters written by Kathryn P. Sevebeck and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
